Adaptive walks on changing landscapes: Levins’ approach extended. (English) Zbl 1106.92057

Rueffler, C.; Van Dooren, T. J. M.; Metz, J. A. J.

Theor. Popul. Biol. 65, No. 2, 165-178 (2004).

Summary: The assumption that trade-offs exist is fundamental in evolutionary theory. R. Levins [Am. Nat. 96, 361–372 (1962)] introduced a widely adopted graphical method for analyzing evolution towards an optimal combination of two quantitative traits, which are traded off. His approach explicitly excluded the possibility of density- and frequency-dependent selection. Here we extend Levins’ method towards models, which include these selection regimes and where therefore fitness landscapes change with population state. We employ the same kind of curves Levins used: trade-off curves and fitness contours. However, fitness contours are not fixed but a function of the resident traits and we only consider those that divide the trait space into potentially successful mutants and mutants which are not able to invade (‘invasion boundaries’). The developed approach allows to make a priori predictions about evolutionary endpoints and about their bifurcations. This is illustrated by applying the approach to several examples from the recent literature.

MSC:

92D15

Problems related to evolution

Keywords:

Adaptive dynamics; Fitness landscape; Frequency-dependent selection; Invasion fitness; Life-history evolution; Trade-off

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