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1993 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

THEORETICAL STUDIES OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION IN LIFE HISTORY SHCEDULES.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 03454004
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 生態学
Research InstitutionKYUSHU UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

IWASA Yoh  KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, PROFESSOR, 理学部, 教授 (70176535)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SASAKI Akira  KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, Fac. of Science, Research Associate, 理学部, 助手 (90211937)
Project Period (FY) 1991 – 1993
KeywordsPhenology / Uncertain fluctuation of environments / Evolutionarily stable evolutionarily stable / Insect / Mformation / Asynchronous life histor / Decision making / Competitive game of nutrient uptake
Research Abstract

(1) The evolution of seasonal timing of univoltine insects living on seasonally chaging renewable resources is studied. If competition during feeding larval stages is intense, asynchronous timing of hatching and pupation may evolve. The period in which pupation occur every day tends to be much longer than the period in which hatching occurs. However they may be synchronous if the impact of herbivorous insects on the food plant is small.
(2) The evolution of voltinism of insects in seasonal environments is studied. A long growing season. small egg size, and fast growth tends to favor bivoltinism or multivoltinism over univoltinism. If the resource availability has a peak in the begining of the growing season and declines slowly afterwards, then the first generation larbae tends to have a larger pupation size and a shorter feeding period than the second generation, which may explain well-documented size difference between seasonal types.
(3) In collaboration with Professor Dan Cohen, Hebrew University, the competitive uptake of nutrients in the medium by microbes or by terrestrial plants is studied, It is a competitive game between plants.
(4) Evolutionarily stable timing of emergence of male butterflies in a fluctuating environment is studied in collaboration with Dr. Patsy Haccou, Leiden University. The importance of the role of information available for males in their decision making. A method was developped to infer the uncertainty that males have in their decision making from variances and covariance of emergence data of both sexes over many years.

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    (15 results)

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All Publications (15 results)

  • [Publications] Iwasa,Y.: "Evolutionarily stable seasonal timing of univotline and bivoltine insects." Kluwer Academic Publ.(in press). (1994)

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  • [Publications] Iwasa,Y.: "Evolution of mate preferences for multiple sexual ornaments." Evolution. (in press). (1994)

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  • [Publications] Iwasa,Y.: "ESS emergence pattern of male butterflies in stochastic environments." Evolutionary Ecology. (in press). (1994)

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  • [Publications] Iwasa,Y.: "Forest gap dynamics with partically synchronized disturbances and gap age distribution." Ecological Modelling. (in press). (1994)

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  • [Publications] Ezoe,H.: "Aggregation by chemotactic random walk:drifting clusters and chemotactic friction." Journal of theoretical Biology. (in press). (1994)

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  • [Publications] Antonovics,J.: "A generalised model of parasitoid,veneral,and vector-based transmission processes." American Naturalist. (in press). (1994)

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  • [Publications] 巌佐 庸: "植物の成長と繁殖に関する進化生態学の数理『植物の自然史:多様性の進化学』" 北海道大学出版会, 89-105 (1994)

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  • [Publications] 巌佐 庸: "ヒトの婚姻システムのモデル『文化と自然の共進化』(シリーズ「地球に生きる」第4巻)" 雄山閣(印刷中), (1994)

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  • [Publications] Yamauchi, A.: "Theory of fermentation and foraging in gerbivorous mammals. In Modelling for Biomass Dynamics and Herbivores-Vegetation Relationships in Grassland Ecosystems. (T.okubo et al. eds.)" Academic Press.in press. (1994)

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  • [Publications] Iwasa, Y.: "Evolutionarily stable seasonal timing of univotline and bivoltine insects. In Insect life-cycle polymorphism : theory, evolution and ecological consequences for seasonaligy and diapause control. (H.V.Danks and S.Masaki eds.)" Kluwer Academic Publ.in press. (1994)

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  • [Publications] Iwasa, Y.: "Evolution of mate preferences for multiple sexual ornaments." Evolution. in press. (1994)

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  • [Publications] Iwasa, Y.: "ESS emergence pattern of male butterflies in stochastic environments." Evolutionary Ecology. in press. (1994)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Iwasa, Y.: "Forest gap dynamics with partically synchronized disturbances and gap age distribution." Ecological Modelling. in press. (1994)

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  • [Publications] Ezoe, H.: "Aggregation by chemotactic random walk : drifting clusters and chemotactic friction." Journal of theoretical Biology (in press). (1994)

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  • [Publications] Antonovics, J.: "A generalised model of parasitoid, veneral, and vector-based transmission processes." American Naturalist. in press. (1994)

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