A quantitative genetic model of r- and K-selection in a fluctuating population

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 725-736

  Engen, Steinar ^a   Lande, Russell ^a,b   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density dependent selection; Environmental stochasticity; Fluctuating selection; Population dynamics; Quantitative genetics; R and K selection

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84877739508     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670257     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Bonenfant, C., J. M. Gaillard, T. Coulson, M. Festa-Bianchet, A. Loison, M. Garel, L. E. Loe, et al. 2009. Empirical evidence of density-dependence in populations of large herbivores. Advances in Ecological Research 41:313-357.
2. Boyce, M. S. 1984. Restitution of r-and K-selection as a model of density-dependent natural selection. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 15:427-447.
3. Charlesworth, B. 1994. Evolution in age-structured populations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
4. Engen, S., B.-E. Sæther, K. B. Armitage, D. T. Blumstein, T. Clutton-Brock, F. S. Dobson, M. Festa-Bianchet, M. K. Oli, and A. Ozgul. 2013. Estimating the effect of temporally autocorrelated environments on the demography of density-independent age-structured population. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12043.
5. Felsenstein, J. 1979. r-and K-selection in a completely chaotic population model. American Naturalist 113:499-510.
6. Fisher, R. A. 1930. The genetical theory of natural selection. Clarendon, Oxford.
7. Gadgil, M., and O. T. Solbrig. 1972. The concept of r-and K-selection: evidence from wild flowers and some theoretical considerations. American Naturalist 106:14-31.
8. Gillespie, J. H. 1991. The causes of molecular evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
9. Gilpin, M. E., T. J. Case, and F. J. Ayala. 1976. v-selection. Mathematical Biosciences 32:131-139.
10. Goldberg, E. E., and R. Lande. 2006. Ecological and reproductive character displacement on an environmental gradient. Evolution 60:1344-1357.
11. Karlin, S., and H. M. Taylor. 1981. A second course in stochastic processes. Academic Press, New York.
12. Lande, R. 1976. Natural selection and random genetic drift in phenotypic evolution. Evolution 30:314-334.
13. Lande, R. 1980. Sexual dimorphism, sexual selection, and adaptation in polygenic characters. Evolution 34:292-305.
14. Lande, R. 1982. A quantitative genetic theory of life history evolution. Ecology 63:607-615.
15. Lande, R. 2007. Expected relative fitness and the adaptive topography of fluctuating selection. Evolution 61:1835-1846.
16. Lande, R. 2008. Adaptive topography of fluctuating selection in aMendelian population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:1096-1105.
17. Lande, R., and S. J. Arnold. 1983. The measurement of selection on correlated characters. Evolution 37:1210-1226.
18. Lande, R., S. Engen, and B.-E. Sæther. 2003. Stochastic population dynamics in ecology and conservation. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
19. Lande, R., S. Engen, and B.-E. Sæther. 2009. An evolutionary maximum principle for densitydependent population dynamics in a fluctuating environment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364:1511-1518.
20. MacArthur, R. H. 1962. Some generalized theorems of natural selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 48:1893-1897.
21. MacArthur, R. H. 1972. Geographical ecology. Harper & Row, New York.
22. MacArthur, R. H., and E. O. Wilson. 1967. The theory of island biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
23. Metz, J. A. J., S. D. Mylius, and O. Dieckmann. 2008. When does evolution optimize? Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:629-654.
24. Metz, J. A. J., R. M. Nisbet, and S. A. H. Geritz. 1992. How should we define "fitness" for general ecological scenarios? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7:198-202.
25. Morris, W. F., J. Altmann, D. K. Brockman, M. Cords, L. M. Fedigan, A. E. Pusey, T. S. Stoinski, A. M. Bronikowski, S. C. Alberts, and K. B. Strier. 2011. Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates. American Naturalist 177:E14-E28.
26. Mueller, L. D. 1997. Theoretical and empirical examination of density-dependent selection. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 28:269-288.
27. Mueller, L. D. 2009. Fitness, demography, and population dynamics in laboratory experiments. Pages 197-216 in T. Garland Jr. and M. R. Rose, eds. Experimental evolution: concepts, methods, and applications of selection experiments. University of California Press, Berkeley.
28. Nagylaki, T. 1992. Introduction to theoretical population genetics. Springer, Berlin.
29. Newton, I. 1998. Population limitation in birds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
30. Pianka, E. R. 1970. On r-and K-selection. American Naturalist 104: 592-597.
31. Pianka, E. R. 1972. r and K selection or b and d selection? American Naturalist 106:581-588.
32. Roff, D. 2002. Life history evolution. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
33. Roughgarden, J. 1971. Density-dependent natural selection. Ecology 52:453-468.
34. Tanaka, Y. 1996. Density-dependent selection on continuous characters: a quantitative genetic model. Evolution 50:1775-1785.
35. Tuljapurkar, S. D. 1982. Population dynamics in variable environments. II. Correlated environments, sensitivity analysis and dynamics. Theoretical Population Biology 21:114-140.
36. Turelli, M. 1981. Temporally varying selection on multiple alleles: a diffusion analysis. Journal of Mathematical Biology 13:115-129.
37. Turelli, M., and D. Petry. 1980. Density-dependent selection in a random environment: an evolutionary process that can maintain stable population dynamics history theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 77:7501-7505.
38. Wright, S. 1969. Evolution and the genetics of populations. Vol. 2. The theory of gene frequencies. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.