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Evolution in spatially structured populations
CNRS, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, Paris (France).
Summary
Most populations exhibit some form of spatial structure, for instance because they are subdivided, because the environment they live in is spatially heterogeneous, or also because there are limits to the distances than an individual can travel. In this series of courses, I will present different tools and methods to study evolution in spatially structured populations, and will show how to apply them to specific questions, such as the evolution of dispersal, or the evolution of social behavior.
Topics
Lecture 1: Introduction of Methods and Concepts
References and further comments related to the questions asked after the lecture
- On Adaptive dynamics when multiple traits evolve jointly:
Leimar 2009 EER
Débarre et al. 2014, The American Naturalist
- Adaptive dynamics: limitations of the framework
Waxman and Gavrilets 2005, JEB – followed by a series of replies, the whole issue was devoted to the topic!
- On the competition model presented as example:
Roughgarden, J. 1979. Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology: An Introduction. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. (It is a book, so no link)
Doebeli and Dieckmann 2000, The American Naturalist, the Adaptive Dynamics version of the model.
Polechova and Barton 2005, Evolution, a critique showing in particular that multiple branching events occur and that there is a unimodal final distribution of trait values.
Doebeli et al. 2007, Procs B, showing that Gaussian functions lead to non-genetic results, but that other functions lead to multimodal distributions of traits.
Débarre 2012 JEB, for a version of the model with a bimodal distributions of resources.
- On fixation probabilities vs. invasion fitness
Proulx and Day 2001, Selection
Lecture 2: The evolution of dispersal
Lecture 3: Evolution in heterogeneous environments
Lecture 4: Social evolution in structured populations
This lecture will be done on the black/white board.