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JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 6-7, Pages 1319-1342Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-013-0730-2
Keywords
Evolution of dispersal; Advective environments; Persistence; Invasion analysis; Reaction-diffusion-advection
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- NSF [DMS-1021179]
- Mathematical Biosciences Institute
- National Science Foundation [DMS-0931642]
- NSERC Discovery grant
- Early Researcher Award from the MRI, Ontario
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1411476] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1021179] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We consider a two-species competition model in a one-dimensional advective environment, where individuals are exposed to unidirectional flow. The two species follow the same population dynamics but have different random dispersal rates and are subject to a net loss of individuals from the habitat at the downstream end. In the case of non-advective environments, it is well known that lower diffusion rates are favored by selection in spatially varying but temporally constant environments, with or without net loss at the boundary. We consider several different biological scenarios that give rise to different boundary conditions, in particular hostile and free-flow conditions. We establish the existence of a critical advection speed for the persistence of a single species. We derive a formula for the invasion exponent and perform a linear stability analysis of the semi-trivial steady state under free-flow boundary conditions for constant and linear growth rate. For homogeneous advective environments with free-flow boundary conditions, we show that populations with higher dispersal rate will always displace populations with slower dispersal rate. In contrast, our analysis of a spatially implicit model suggest that for hostile boundary conditions, there is a unique dispersal rate that is evolutionarily stable. Nevertheless, both scenarios show that unidirectional flow can put slow dispersers at a disadvantage and higher dispersal rate can evolve.
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