The evolution of phenotypic traits in a predator–prey system subject to Allee effect

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• 作者：Jian Zu ; Masayasu Mimura ; Joe Yuichiro Wakano
• 关键词：Adaptive dynamics ; Evolutionary suicide ; Evolutionary cycle ; Evolutionary branching ; Continuously stable strategy
• 刊名：Journal of Theoretical Biology
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：7 February 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：262
• 期：3
• 页码：528-543
• 全文大小：1291 K

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This paper considers the evolution of phenotypic traits in a community comprising the populations of predators and prey subject to Allee effect. The evolutionary model is constructed from a deterministic approximation of the stochastic process of mutation and selection. Firstly, we investigate the ecological and evolutionary conditions that allow for continuously stable strategy and evolutionary branching. We find that the strong Allee effect of prey facilitates the formation of continuously stable strategy in the case that prey population undergoes evolutionary branching if the Allee effect of prey is not strong enough. Secondly, we show that evolutionary suicide is impossible for prey population when the intraspecific competition of prey is symmetric about the origin. However, evolutionary suicide can occur deterministically on prey population if prey individuals undergo strong asymmetric competition and are subject to Allee effect. Thirdly, we show that the evolutionary model with symmetric interactions admits a stable limit cycle if the Allee effect of prey is weak. Evolutionary cycle is a likely outcome of the process, which depends on the strength of Allee effect and the mutation rates of predators and prey.