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How bad is to be slow-reacting?

On the effect of the delay in response to a changing environment on a population’s survival

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We consider a simple-model population, whose individuals react with a certain delay to temporal variations of their habitat. We investigate the impact of such a delayed-answer on the survival chances of the population, both in a periodically changing environment, and in the case of an abrupt change of it. It is found that for populations with low degree of mutation-induced variability, being “slow-reacting” decreases the extinction risk due to environmental changes. On the contrary, for populations with high mutation amplitude, the delayed reaction reduces the survival chances.

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  1. Theoretical Physics Department, University of Geneva, Quai E. Ansermet no. 24, 1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    I. Bena Coppex, M. Droz & J. Szwabiński

  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, Pl. M. Borna 9, 50-204, Wrocłlaw, Poland

    J. Szwabiński & A. Pękalski

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Bena Coppex, I., Droz, M., Szwabiński, J. et al. How bad is to be slow-reacting?. Eur. Phys. J. B 65, 341–346 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00157-2

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