Importance of interindividual interactions in eco-evolutionary population dynamics: The rise of demo-genetic agent-based models.

ABSTRACT: The study of eco-evolutionary dynamics, that is of the intertwinning between ecological and evolutionary processes when they occur at comparable time scales, is of growing interest in the current context of global change. However, many eco-evolutionary studies overlook the role of interindividual interactions, which are hard to predict and yet central to selective values. Here, we aimed at putting forward models that simulate interindividual interactions in an eco-evolutionary framework: the demo-genetic agent-based models (DG-ABMs). Being demo-genetic, DG-ABMs consider the feedback loop between ecological and evolutionary processes. Being agent-based, DG-ABMs follow populations of interacting individuals with sets of traits that vary among the individuals. We argue that the ability of DG-

SUBMITTER: Lamarins A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9753837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature