Assortative mating for reproductive timing affects population recruitment and resilience in a quantitative genetic model.

ABSTRACT: Quantitative models that simulate the inheritance and evolution of fitness-linked traits offer a method for predicting how environmental or anthropogenic perturbations can affect the dynamics of wild populations. Random mating between individuals within populations is a key assumption of many such models used in conservation and management to predict the impacts of proposed management or conservation actions. However, recent evidence suggests that non-random mating may be underestimated in wild populations and play an important role in diversity-stability relationships. Here we introduce a novel individual-based quantitative genetic model that incorporates assortative mating for reproductive timing, a defining attribute of many aggregate breeding species. We demonstrate the utility of this

SUBMITTER: May SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10033844 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature