Trade-off shapes diversity in eco-evolutionary dynamics

We introduce an Interaction and Trade-off based Eco-Evolutionary Model (ITEEM), in which species are competing for resources in a well-mixed system, and their evolution in interaction trait space is subject to a life-history trade-off between replication rate and competitive ability. We demonstrate that the strength of the trade-off has a fundamental impact on eco-evolutionary dynamics, as it imposes four phases of diversity, including a sharp phase transition. Despite its minimalism, ITEEM produces without further ad hoc features a remarkable range of observed patterns of eco-evolutionary dynamics. Most notably we find self-organization towards structured communities with high and sustainable diversity, in which competing species form interaction cycles similar to rock-paper-scissors games.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  bioRxiv

• Publication date

  2017-05-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Computer Science, Economics, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1101/184432arXiv 1705.10516PMID 30117415PMCID 6126925
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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