Eco-genetic modelling of contemporary life-history evolution

.........................................................................................................................2 Intoduction .....................................................................................................................3 An Overwiev of Eco-genetic Modeling ........................................................................6 Process-based description of demographic mechanisms ......................................7 Population structure ..............................................................................................7 Density dependence and frequency dependence...................................................7 Phenotypic plasticity.............................................................................................8 Stochasticity..........................................................................................................8 Genetic variation...................................................................................................9 Trade-offs...................................................................................9 Building blocks of Eco-genetic Models......................................................10 Evolving traits............................................................................10 Inheritance models.......................................................................11 Segregation-recombination variance-covariance....................................12 Growth model.............................................................................13 Density dependence.......................................................................15 Environmental variation.................................................................17 Phenotypic plasticity......................................................................18 Sex structure...............................................................................19 Mating system............................................................................19 Implementation strategy.................................................................20 Parameterization strategy...............................................................21 Robustness analysis......................................................................22 Example: An Eco-genetic Model for Studying Harvest-induced Evolution............23 Model description........................................................................23 Response to harvest......................................................................27 Response to a moratorium...............................................................28 Response to different harvesting patterns.............................................29 Discussion.......................................................................................30 Acknowledgements.............................................................................35 References.......................................................................................35 Table 1...........................................................................................48 Table 2...........................................................................................50 Figure Captions.................................................................................53 Appendix 1: Robustness analysis............................................................60