2014/02/25 by Satoru Morita, Jin Yoshimura
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Adaptability #Biological dispersal #Biological system #Biology #Computer science #Demography #Ecology #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Mathematical optimization #Mathematics #Physics #Plant and animal studies #Population #Random walk #Statistical physics #Statistics #cond-mat.stat-mech #physics.soc-ph #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.7566/jpsj.84.034801
published as J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 84, 034801 (2015)
arxiv created 2014/02/25 · openalex publication_date 2015/02/23 · arxiv updated 2015/11/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It has not been known whether preferential dispersal is adaptive in fluctuating environments. We investigate the effect of preferential and random dispersals in bet-hedging systems by using a discrete stochastic metapopulation model, where each site fluctuates between good and bad environments with temporal correlation. To explore the optimal migration pattern, an analytical estimation of the total growth is derived by mean field approximation. We found that the preference for fertile sites is disadvantageous when transportation among sites has a cost or the sensitivity of preference is high.