Maintenance of polymorphism in spatially heterogeneous environments
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Local adaptation occurs when species adapt to spatially heterogeneous environments. The stability of local adaptation is determined by migration-selection-drift balance: selection favors adaptive divergence whereas migration and random genetic drift cause the collapse of divergence. The evolutionary dynamics of this balance have been extensively studied, but most previous theories used models with simple population structure and environmental variation, precluding their applicability to complex situations in nature. To address this issue, we developed a new theoretical method to analyze complex multi-population models, allowing heterogeneity in selection, migration, and population density. In essence, our method approximates a complex spatial model with a panmictic one-population model while retaining the core stochastic structure, enabling the application of conventional diffusion methods. By comparing with simulations, we confirmed that our method accurately describes stochastic evolutionary dynamics in various spatial models when migration is sufficiently high. This method is then applied to examine the effect of the pattern of environmental variation in 2D space. Assuming landscapes with different levels of the spatial autocorrelation of the environment, we found that the maintenance of locally adaptive alleles is significantly promoted when the spatial autocorrelation is high. These results highlight how complex spatial heterogeneity, as seen in nature, could affect the qualitative outcome of evolution.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".