Open AccessALADYN – a spatially explicit, allelic model for simulating adaptive dynamics
Author(s) -
Schiffers Katja H.,
Travis Justin M. J.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ecography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.973
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1600-0587
pISSN - 0906-7590
DOI - 10.1111/ecog.00680
Subject(s) - niche , selection (genetic algorithm) , range (aeronautics) , flexibility (engineering) , ecology , adaptation (eye) , fitness landscape , dynamics (music) , evolutionary biology , biology , computer science , population , mathematics , statistics , physics , artificial intelligence , materials science , neuroscience , acoustics , composite material , demography , sociology
ALADYN is a freely available cross‐platform C++ modeling framework for stochastic simulation of joint allelic and demographic dynamics of spatially‐structured populations. Juvenile survival is linked to the degree of match between an individual's phenotype and the local phenotypic optimum. There is considerable flexibility provided for the demography of the considered species and the genetic architecture of the traits under selection. ALADYN facilitates the investigation of adaptive processes to spatially and/or temporally changing conditions and the resulting niche and range dynamics. To our knowledge ALADYN is so far the only model that allows a continuous resolution of individuals’ locations in a spatially explicit landscape together with the associated patterns of selection.