| Grant number: | 20/15320-4 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| Start date: | October 01, 2021 |
| End date: | September 30, 2022 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics |
| Principal Investigator: | Roberto André Kraenkel |
| Grantee: | Silas Poloni Lyra |
| Supervisor: | Frithjof Lutscher |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Institution abroad: | University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 18/24037-4 - Reaction-diffusion equations in Population Biology: persistence and Invasibility conditions, BP.DR |
Abstract This project aims to incorporate evolutionary processes that occur throughout invasions into range expansion theory, especially spatial sorting and gene-surfing. Spatial sorting consists of the fact that some individuals may present higher dispersal capacity then others, colonizing some regions of the invaded landscape before its co-specifics do. Gene surfing can be explained as mutations having a higher fixation probability, simply by being at the front of an invasion, when compared to well-mixed populations. The main focus is on the development of integro-difference equations models to study such phenomena. Most of the expected results are to come from analytical techniques and approximations with support from numerical methods. (AU) | |
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