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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary biology
  • Ecology
  • Population genetics

Background:

  • Previous studies on environmental heterogeneity and diversity focused on simple factors.
  • Metapopulation evolution is influenced by mutation, selection, and migration.
  • Understanding complex environmental structures is crucial for evolutionary insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how complex environmental heterogeneities and dispersal patterns affect metapopulation evolution and adaptive diversification.
  • To broaden existing knowledge beyond simple environmental factors and dispersal.

Main Methods:

  • Modeling metapopulation dynamics under mutation, selection, and migration.
  • Analyzing scenarios with independent and correlated habitat factors.
  • Examining patch connectivity structured by row and column factors.

Main Results:

  • Correlations between environmental factors significantly promote adaptive diversification.
  • Trait interactions influencing survival can modulate the effect of correlated factors.
  • Specific structured environmental patterns (balanced row/column occurrences) were found to impede diversification.

Conclusions:

  • Environmental factor correlation is a key driver of adaptive diversification in metapopulations.
  • The structure of dispersal networks and environmental patterns critically influences evolutionary outcomes.
  • Complex environmental heterogeneity offers a richer framework for understanding biodiversity evolution.