When does evolution optimize?
Authors: Metz JAJ, Mylius SD, Diekmann O
Publication Year: 2008
Reference: Evolutionary Ecology Research, 10(5):629-654 (2008)
Also available as IIASA Interim Report IR-08-013 www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PUB/Documents/IR-08-013.pdf
Abstract
Aim: To elucidate the role of the eco-evolutionary feedback loop in determining evolutionarily stable life histories, with particular reference to the methodological status of the optimization procedures of classical evolutionary ecology.
Conclusion: A pure optimization approach holds water only when the eco-evolutionary feedbacks are of a particularly simple kind.
KEYWORDS: Eco-evolutionary feedback; Environmental dimension; Evolutionary optimization; Invasion fitness; Life-history theory; r-optimization, R_0-optimization.
Conclusion: A pure optimization approach holds water only when the eco-evolutionary feedbacks are of a particularly simple kind.
KEYWORDS: Eco-evolutionary feedback; Environmental dimension; Evolutionary optimization; Invasion fitness; Life-history theory; r-optimization, R_0-optimization.