SPATIAL SELECTION AND INHERITANCE: APPLYING EVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTS TO POPULATION DYNAMICS IN HETEROGENEOUS SPACE

Spatial selection and inheritance: applying evolutionary concepts to population dynamics in heterogeneous space.

Organisms in highly suitable sites generally produce more offspring, and offspring can inherit this suitability by not dispersing far. This combination of spatial selection and spatial inheritance acts to bias the distribution of organisms toward suitable sites and thereby increase mean fitness (i.e., per capita population increase). Thus, population growth rates in heterogeneous space change o...

Applying evolutionary concepts to wildlife disease ecology and management

Existing and emerging infectious diseases are among the most pressing global threats to biodiversity, food safety and human health. The complex interplay between host, pathogen and environment creates a challenge for conserving species, communities and ecosystem functions, while mediating the many known ecological and socio-economic negative effects of disease. Despite the clear ecological and ...

Concepts of Space and Spatial Language

Development of a comprehensive model of spatial relations is important to improved geographic information and analysis systems, and also to cognitive science and behavioral geography. This paper first reviews concepts of space. A critical distinction is between small-scale spaces, whose geometry can be directly perceived through vision and other senses, and large-scale space, which can be perce...

Collapsing the State Space Applying Markov Analysis to Evolutionary Systems

Evolutionary systems may often be accurately modelled by Markov processes. However the state space invariably turns out to be vast and multi-dimensional, thus limiting the application of Markov theory to broad abstraction rather than specific problems. One notable exception is the analysis of error thresholds in finite populations by (Nowak & Schuster 1989), where a (seemingly unjustifiable) ap...

Population Games And Evolutionary Dynamics