Evolution of multi-stage dormancy in temporally autocorrelated environments.
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Summary, in English
Question: Under what circumstances does a capacity for multi-stage dormancy (i.e. dormancy
in more than one life-stage) evolve?
Mathematical methods: Optimization in stochastic environments. Results are derived both
analytically and by simulations.
Key assumption: There exists some trade-off between resources allocated to reproduction and
adult dormant survival. Different shapes of this trade-off are investigated.
Major conclusions: Multi-stage dormancy can evolve in an environment with low serial
autocorrelation. However, a slowly changing environment, with high positive autocorrelation,
will prevent the evolution of dormancy in several life-stages. In general, a high positive
environmental autocorrelation will separate the evolution of life parameters associated with
active life from that of parameters associated with dormant life.
in more than one life-stage) evolve?
Mathematical methods: Optimization in stochastic environments. Results are derived both
analytically and by simulations.
Key assumption: There exists some trade-off between resources allocated to reproduction and
adult dormant survival. Different shapes of this trade-off are investigated.
Major conclusions: Multi-stage dormancy can evolve in an environment with low serial
autocorrelation. However, a slowly changing environment, with high positive autocorrelation,
will prevent the evolution of dormancy in several life-stages. In general, a high positive
environmental autocorrelation will separate the evolution of life parameters associated with
active life from that of parameters associated with dormant life.
Department/s
Publishing year
2005
Language
English
Pages
1125-1137
Publication/Series
Evolutionary Ecology Research
Volume
7
Issue
8
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Evolutionary Ecology Ltd
Topic
- Biological Sciences
Status
Published
Research group
- Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1522-0613