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  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Mathematical Biology

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  • Organisms disperse through heterogeneous environments as a key life history trait.
  • Reaction-advection-diffusion models in continuous environments show ideal free distribution strategies are evolutionarily stable (ESS) and neighborhood invader strategies (NIS).
  • Classical models assume continuous environmental variation, but landscapes are often patchy mosaics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate dispersal strategies in patchy landscapes using a recent reaction-diffusion formulation.
  • To determine if ideal free distribution strategies are evolutionarily stable in patchy environments.
  • To apply methods from evolutionary game theory and adaptive dynamics to landscape ecology.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a formulation of reaction-diffusion systems for patchy landscapes.
  • Employed pairwise invasibility analysis, inspired by evolutionary game theory and adaptive dynamics.
  • Analyzed movement strategies at boundaries between different patch types.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated that the ideal free distribution strategy is evolutionarily steady (ESS) in patchy environments.
  • Showed that this strategy is also a global neighborhood invader strategy (NIS).
  • Confirmed that populations using this strategy can both invade and resist invasion.

Conclusions:

  • The ideal free distribution strategy is evolutionarily robust in patchy environments.
  • This behavioral strategy for movement at patch boundaries is globally ESS and NIS.
  • Findings extend evolutionary dispersal theory to more realistic, heterogeneous landscapes.