Temperature and reproductive metabolism in macrobenthic populations

Reproductive effort in viscous populations.

Here I study a kin selection model of reproductive effort, the allocation of resources to fecundity versus survival, in a patch-structured population. Breeding females remain in the same patch for life. Offspring have costly, partial long-distance dispersal and compete for breeding sites, which become vacant upon the death of previous occupants. The main result is that the evolutionarily stable...

Temperature, latitude and reproductive effort

The traditional IBP formulation of the energy budget is unsuitable for many marine organisms, partly because it sets production and respiration as alternative sinks when in reallty they are linked but also because it fails to recognise the heterogeneous nature of respiratory demand. The vanous components of total respiration reflect separate demands for ATP which are hkely to differ in their re...

Reproductive value in graph-structured populations.

Evolutionary graph theory has grown to be an area of intense study. Despite the amount of interest in the field, it seems to have grown separate from other subfields of population genetics and evolution. In the current work I introduce the concept of Fisher's (1930) reproductive value into the study of evolution on graphs. Reproductive value is a measure of the expected genetic contribution of ...

Preimaginal Development and Reproductive Responses to Temperature in Two Populations of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Invasion fitness, inclusive fitness, and reproductive numbers in heterogeneous populations.

How should fitness be measured to determine which phenotype or "strategy" is uninvadable when evolution occurs in a group-structured population subject to local demographic and environmental heterogeneity? Several fitness measures, such as basic reproductive number, lifetime dispersal success of a local lineage, or inclusive fitness have been proposed to address this question, but the relations...