Emergence of spatially structured populations by area-concentrated search.

ABSTRACT: The idea that populations are spatially structured has become a very powerful concept in ecology, raising interest in many research areas. However, despite dispersal being a core component of the concept, it typically does not consider the movement behavior underlying any dispersal. Using individual-based simulations in continuous space, we explored the emergence of a spatially structured population in landscapes with spatially heterogeneous resource distribution and with organisms following simple area-concentrated search (ACS); individuals do not, however, perceive or respond to any habitat attributes per se but only to their foraging success. We investigated the effects of different resource clustering pattern in landscapes (single large cluster vs. many small clusters) and different re

SUBMITTER: Chaianunporn T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9712486 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature