A tradeoff between robustness to environmental fluctuations and speed of evolution

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Helsinki-Guillaume, Frédéric
dc.contributor.authorGuillaume, Frédéric
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-29T14:04:09Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-25
dc.date.issued2022-03-25
dc.descriptionThe ability of a species to cope with both long-term and short-term environmental fluctuations might vary with the species' life history. While some life-history characteristics promote large and stable population sizes despite interannual environmental fluctuations, other life-history strategies might allow to evolve quickly in response to long-term gradual changes. In a theoretical study, we show that there is a tradeoff between both properties. Life-history characteristics that promote fast rates of evolution come at the expense of a poor response to short-term environmental fluctuations, and vice versa. We demonstrated the presence of this tradeoff by the use of a mathematical analysis and individual-based simulations.
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5888704
dc.identifier.urihttps://datakatalogi.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/5646
dc.rights.licensecc-by-nc-nd-4.0
dc.subjectsimulation results
dc.subjectComputer code (Mathematica file)
dc.subjectagent-based computer simulation
dc.subjectR scripts
dc.titleA tradeoff between robustness to environmental fluctuations and speed of evolution
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