Optimal life-history strategy differs between philopatric and dispersing individuals in a metapopulation

• Published in: The American naturalist Vol. 183; no. 3; p. 384
• Main Authors: Cotto, Olivier, Kubisch, Alexander, Ronce, Ophélie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2014
• Subjects: Animal Distribution; Animals; Biological Evolution; Butterflies - physiology; Models, Biological; Population Dynamics; Reproduction

Abundant empirical evidence for dispersal syndromes contrasts with the rarity of theoretical predictions about the evolution of life-history divergence between dispersing and philopatric individuals. We use an evolutionary model to predict optimal differences in age-specific reproductive effort betw...