Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks and the Maintenance of Metacommunity Diversity in a Changing Environment.

ABSTRACT: The presence and strength of resource competition can influence how organisms adaptively respond to environmental change. Selection may thus reflect a balance between two forces, adaptation to an environmental optimum and evolution to avoid strong competition. While this phenomenon has previously been explored in the context of single communities, its implications for eco-evolutionary dynamics at the metacommunity scale are largely unknown. We developed a simulation model for the evolution of a quantitative trait that influences both an organism's carrying capacity and its intra- and interspecific competitive ability. In the model, multiple species inhabit a three-patch landscape, and we investigated the effect of varying the connectivity level among patches, the presence and pace of direc

SUBMITTER: Fielding AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7761218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature