Abstract
Adaptive dynamics explicitly links population dynamics to long-term evolution driven by mutation and selection and hence incorporates processes on two different time sales: a fast ecological time scale and a slower evolutionary time scale.
On the ecological time scale adaptive dynamics addresses such questions as which mutant strategies can invade a population of given resident strategies, and what would be the outcome of such an invasion in terms of which strategies remain and which are eliminated from the population once a new population dynamical attractor is being reached again.
On the evolutionary time scale adaptive dynamics addresses the question how the set of strategies present in a population changes as a consequence of many successive invasion-elimination events.
In this talk we focus on the ecological time scale of invasion and elimination. In particular, we ask under what conditions invasion leads to coexistence with the residents and under what conditions invasion leads to competitive elimination of residents. We review the existing theory and indicate where are the gaps in our understanding.
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