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SUBMITTER: Clarke PMR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238137 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clarke Parry M R PMR McElreath Mary Brooke MB Barrett Brendan J BJ Mabry Karen E KE McElreath Richard R
Ecology and evolution 20181016 21
Adults sometimes disperse, while philopatric offspring inherit the natal site, a pattern known as <i>bequeathal</i>. Despite a decades-old empirical literature, little theoretical work has explored when natural selection may favor bequeathal. We present a simple mathematical model of the evolution of bequeathal in a stable environment, under both global and local dispersal. We find that natural selection favors bequeathal when adults are competitively advantaged over juveniles, baseline mortalit ...[more]