eprintid: 4697 rev_number: 5 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/46/97 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:54 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:28 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:06:54 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Dieckmann, U. creators_name: Law, R. creators_id: 1668 creators_orcid: 0000-0001-7089-0393 title: The dynamical theory of coevolution: A derivation from stochastic ecological processes ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_ecl internal_subjects: iis_met divisions: prog_adn keywords: Coevolution; Stochastic processes; Mutation-selection systems; Individual-based models; Population dynamics; Adaptive dynamics abstract: In this paper we develop a dynamical theory of coevolution in ecological communities. The derivation explicitly accounts for the stochastic components of evolutionary change and is based on ecological processes at the level of the individual. We show that the coevolutionary dynamics can be envisaged as a random walk in the community's trait space. A quantitative description of this stochastic process in terms of a master equation is derived. By determining the first jump moment of this process we abstract the dynamic of the mean evolutionary path. To first order the resulting equation coincides with a dynamic that has been frequently assumed in evolutionary game theory. Apart from recovering this canonical equation we systematically establish the underlying assumptions. We provide higher order corrections and show that these can give rise to new, unexpected evolutionary effects including shifting evolutionary isoclines and evolutionary slowing down of mean paths as they approach evolutionary equilibria. Extensions of the derivation to more ecological settings are discussed. In particular we allow for multi-trait coevolution and analyze coevolution under nonequilibrium population dynamics. date: 1996-05 date_type: published publisher: Springer id_number: 10.1007/BF02409751 iiasapubid: XJ-96-002 iiasa_bibref: Journal of Mathematical Biology; 34(5-6):579-612 (May 1996) iiasa_bibnotes: [doi:10.1007/BF02409751]. Also available as IIASA Working Paper WP-96-001 <www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PUB/Documents/WP-96-001.pdf> creators_browse_id: 66 full_text_status: none publication: Journal of Mathematical Biology volume: 34 number: 5 pagerange: 579-612 refereed: TRUE issn: 1432-1416 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Dieckmann, U. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-0393 & Law, R. (1996). The dynamical theory of coevolution: A derivation from stochastic ecological processes. Journal of Mathematical Biology 34 (5) 579-612. 10.1007/BF02409751 .