Publications by authors named "Leonard Dekens"
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- Specialist species face heightened extinction risks due to climate change, requiring adaptation and movement to safe habitats for survival.
- This study investigates how environmental factors affect the adaptation and persistence of a specialist species through a genetic model featuring two distinct environments.
- Findings reveal that a certain speed of environmental change dictates when species may abruptly switch habitats, with strong local adaptation potentially leading to increased extinction risks if conditions worsen too quickly.
When studying the dynamics of trait distribution of populations in a heterogeneous environment, classical models from quantitative genetics choose to look at its system of moments, specifically the first two ones. Additionally, in order to close the resulting system of equations, they often assume the local trait distributions are Gaussian [see for instance Ronce and Kirkpatrick (Evolution 55(8):1520-1531, 2001. https://doi.
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