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The effect of differential survivorship on the stability of reproductive queueing
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posted on 2023-06-07, 22:42 authored by Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Ian C. W. Hardy, Jeremy FieldQueues, in which individuals inherit resources in a predictable, temporally stable order, are widespread in animal social groups. We develop an analytic model to explore the effect of differential survivorship on the stability of a reproductive queue. We show that unless fighting for dominance is potentially fatal, future direct benefits are not alone sufficient to stabilize a queue of non-relatives under constant (age-independent) mortality rates, regardless of whether a dominant becomes an isolate or remains a dominant on the death of the first subordinate. In the absence of fatal fighting, stabilization of such a queue by future direct benefits alone requires either the dominant or the subordinate to have age-dependent mortality rates. Even when the queue is stabilized by present direct reproduction, however, the shape of the lifespan distribution can make a significant difference to the size of the required incentive. In contrast to non-relatives, queues of relatives can be stable without age-dependent mortality, so long as relatedness exceeds a critical value; however, age-dependent mortality can lower this critical value.
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Journal of Theoretical BiologyISSN
0022-5193Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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3Volume
242Page range
699-712Pages
14.0Department affiliated with
- Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Publications
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