Effective growth rates in a periodically changing environment: From mutation to invasion

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Main Authors: Esser, Manuel, Kraut, Anna
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author Esser, Manuel
Kraut, Anna
author_facet Esser, Manuel
Kraut, Anna
contents We consider a stochastic individual-based model of adaptive dynamics for an asexually reproducing population with mutation, with linear birth and death rates, as well as a density-dependent competition. To depict repeating changes of the environment, all of these parameters vary over time as piecewise constant and periodic functions, on an intermediate time-scale between those of stabilization of the resident population (fast) and exponential growth of mutants (slow). Studying the growth of emergent mutants and their invasion of the resident population in the limit of small mutation rates for a simultaneously diverging population size, we are able to determine their effective growth rates. We describe this growth as a mesoscopic scaling-limit of the orders of population sizes, where we observe an averaging effect of the invasion fitness. Moreover, we prove a limit result for the sequence of consecutive macroscopic resident traits that is similar to the so-called trait-substitution-sequence.
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spellingShingle Effective growth rates in a periodically changing environment: From mutation to invasion
Esser, Manuel
Kraut, Anna
Populations and Evolution
Probability
37N25, 60J27, 60J80, 92D15, 92D25
We consider a stochastic individual-based model of adaptive dynamics for an asexually reproducing population with mutation, with linear birth and death rates, as well as a density-dependent competition. To depict repeating changes of the environment, all of these parameters vary over time as piecewise constant and periodic functions, on an intermediate time-scale between those of stabilization of the resident population (fast) and exponential growth of mutants (slow). Studying the growth of emergent mutants and their invasion of the resident population in the limit of small mutation rates for a simultaneously diverging population size, we are able to determine their effective growth rates. We describe this growth as a mesoscopic scaling-limit of the orders of population sizes, where we observe an averaging effect of the invasion fitness. Moreover, we prove a limit result for the sequence of consecutive macroscopic resident traits that is similar to the so-called trait-substitution-sequence.
title Effective growth rates in a periodically changing environment: From mutation to invasion
topic Populations and Evolution
Probability
37N25, 60J27, 60J80, 92D15, 92D25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20509