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A predator-2 prey fast-slow dynamical system for rapid predator evolution
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark1
National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark2
Centre for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark3
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor4
University of Oxford5
We consider adaptive change of diet of a predator population that switches its feeding between two prey populations. We develop a novel 1 fast-3 slow dynamical system to describe the dynamics of the three populations amidst continuous but rapid evolution of the predator's diet choice. The two extremes at which the predator's diet is composed solely of one prey correspond to two branches of the three-branch critical manifold of the fast slow system.
By calculating the points at which there is a fast transition between these two feeding choices (i.e., branches of the critical manifold), we prove that the system has a two-parameter family of periodic orbits for sufficiently large separation of the time scales between the evolutionary and ecological dynamics.
Using numerical simulations, we show that these periodic orbits exist, and that their phase difference and oscillation patterns persist, when ecological and evolutionary interactions occur on comparable time scales. Our model also exhibits periodic orbits that agree qualitatively with oscillation patterns observed in experimental studies of the coupling between rapid evolution and ecological interactions.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2017 |
Pages: | 54-90 |
ISSN: | 15360040 |
Types: | Journal article and Preprint article |
DOI: | 10.1137/16M1068426 |
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