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  • Evolutionary Game Theory
  • Ecological Dynamics
  • Complex Systems

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  • Dynamic environments influence evolutionary game systems.
  • Resource availability impacts individual competitiveness and survival.
  • Environmental feedback loops are crucial in coevolutionary dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate coevolutionary game dynamics with environmental feedback using a prisoner's dilemma model.
  • To explore the impact of spatial resource heterogeneity on game dynamics.
  • To identify conditions that prevent the 'oscillatory tragedy of the commons'.

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of spatial heterogeneity of resources into the prisoner's dilemma game.
  • Simulation of coevolutionary dynamics on square lattices.
  • Analysis of environmental feedback between strategies and resource update rates.

Main Results:

  • High influence of strategies on resource update rates in heterogeneous environments can lead to stable equilibrium.
  • Self-organized clustered patterns emerge on lattices, enhancing system stability.
  • The transition to equilibrium is robust across various parameters like cooperator strength, initial distribution, size, structure, and noise.

Conclusions:

  • Spatial heterogeneity and strong strategy-resource feedback can avert the oscillatory tragedy of the commons.
  • Clustered patterns in spatial evolutionary games promote system stability.
  • The findings offer insights into maintaining cooperation and resource sustainability in dynamic environments.