Evolution of Mixed Dispersal in Periodic Environments
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چکیده
Random dispersal describes the movement of organisms between adjacent spatial locations. However, the movement of some organisms such as seeds of plants can occur between non-adjacent spatial locations and is thus non-local. We propose to study a mixed dispersal strategy, which is a combination of random dispersal and non-local dispersal. More specifically, we assume that a fraction of individuals in the population adopt random dispersal, while the remaining fraction assumes non-local dispersal. We investigate how such mixed dispersal affects the invasion of a single species and also how mixed dispersal strategy will evolve in spatially heterogeneous but temporally constant environment.
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