Original title: Modelling evolution of resource-based plant-animal mutualisms
Authors: MARCOU, Thomas Georges Roger André
Document type: Doctoral theses
Year: 2025
Language: eng
Abstract: This thesis investigates the evolution of plant-animal consumer resource mutualism. I aimed to extend our understanding on how mutualistic interactions can influence the evolutionary trajectories of interacting plant and animal, where plants act as resource providers while animal are consumers. I also aimed to investigate how mutualism itself can evolve, for example the conditions for its maintenance and the evolution of specialism/generalism. The three main chapters of this thesis investigate different evolutionary aspects of mutualism by using a variety of mathematical models and three different timescales: behavioral, ecological and evolutionary. The theoretical outcomes of these models provide interesting insights for evolutionary ecologists on the maintenance of plant-animal mutualism and on plant-pollinator coevolution
Keywords: evolutionary ecology; evolutionary game theory; mathematical modeling; plant-animal mutualism
Citation: MARCOU, Thomas Georges Roger André. Modelling evolution of resource-based plant-animal mutualisms. České Budějovice, 2025. disertační práce (Ph.D.). JIHOČESKÁ UNIVERZITA V ČESKÝCH BUDĚJOVICÍCH. Přírodovědecká fakulta

Institution: University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available in the Digital Repository of University of South Bohemia.
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