@Article{LionVanBaalen2009,
Author = {Lion, Sébastien and van Baalen, Minus},
Title = {The evolution of juvenile-adult interactions in
populations structured in age and space.},
Journal = {Theoretical Population Biology},
doi = {10.1016/j.tpb.2009.05.005},
Volume = {76},
Number = {2},
Pages = {132-145},
URL = {https://evolepid.cefe.cnrs.fr/pub/LionVanBaalen2009.pdf},
abstract = {We study the evolution of a spatially structured
population with two age classes using spatial moment
equations. In the model, adults can either help
juveniles by increasing their survival, or adopt a
cannibalistic behaviour and consume juveniles. While
cannibalism is the sole evolutionary outcome when the
population is well-mixed, both cannibalism and parental
care can be evolutionarily stable if the population is
viscous. Our analysis allows us to make two main
technical points. First, we present a method to define
invasion fitness in class-structured viscous
populations, which allows us to apply adaptive dynamics
methodology. Second, we show that ordinary pair
approximation introduces an important quantitative bias
in the evolutionary model, even on random networks. We
propose a correction to the ordinary pair approximation
that yields quantitative accuracy, and discuss how the
bias associated with this approach is precisely what
allows us to identify subtle aspects associated with
the evolutionary dynamics of spatially structured
populations.},
keywords = {space, evolution of social traits},
year = {2009}
}