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Ecological Complexity
Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2008, Pages 238-251
 
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Community-driven dispersal in an individual-based predator–prey model

Elise Filotasa, Martin Grantb, Lael Parrotta, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Per Arne Rikvoldc

aComplex Systems Laboratory, Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada bDepartment of Physics, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montréal, Québec H3A 2T8, Canada cSchool of Computational Science, Center for Materials Research and Technology, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA

Received 18 July 2007; 
revised 30 November 2007; 
accepted 8 January 2008. 
Available online 4 March 2008.

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Abstract

We present a spatial, individual-based predator–prey model in which dispersal is dependent on the local community. We determine species suitability to the biotic conditions of their local environment through a time and space varying fitness measure. Dispersal of individuals to nearby communities occurs whenever their fitness falls below a predefined tolerance threshold. The spatiotemporal dynamics of the model is described in terms of this threshold. We compare this dynamics with the one obtained through density-independent dispersal and find marked differences. In the community-driven scenario, the spatial correlations in the population density do not vary in a linear fashion as we increase the tolerance threshold. Instead we find the system to cross different dynamical regimes as the threshold is raised. Spatial patterns evolve from disordered, to scale-free complex patterns, to finally becoming well-organized domains. This model therefore predicts that natural populations, the dispersal strategies of which are likely to be influenced by their local environment, might be subject to complex spatiotemporal dynamics.

Keywords: Community-driven dispersal; Spatial model; Predator–prey dynamics; Individual-based modeling; Spatiotemporal patterns

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Definition of the model
2.1. The fitness
2.2. The dispersal process
3. Methods
3.1. Simulation details
3.2. Spatial pattern analysis: the structure factor
4. Spatiotemporal dynamics
4.1. Community-driven dispersal
4.1.1. Spatial analysis
4.1.2. Temporal analysis
4.1.3. Impact of the scaling parameter
4.2. Density-independent dispersal
5. Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgements
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