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SUBMITTER: Yeakel JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811595 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yeakel Justin D JD Kempes Christopher P CP Redner Sidney S
Nature communications 20180213 1
The eco-evolutionary dynamics of species are fundamentally linked to the energetic constraints of their constituent individuals. Of particular importance is the interplay between reproduction and the dynamics of starvation and recovery. To elucidate this interplay, here we introduce a nutritional state-structured model that incorporates two classes of consumers: nutritionally replete, reproducing consumers, and undernourished, nonreproducing consumers. We obtain strong constraints on starvation ...[more]