ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2020
Predator Dormancy is a Stable Adaptive Strategy due to Parrondo's Paradox.
Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Extending the gleaner-opportunist trade-off.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Review
- Alternating lysis and lysogeny is a winning strategy in bacteriophages due to Parrondo's paradox.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- An alternating active-dormitive strategy enables disadvantaged prey to outcompete the perennially active prey through Parrondo's paradox.BMC biology · 2021Article
- Principles of seed banks and the emergence of complexity from dormancy.Nature communications · 2021Review
- Decision making under measure-based granular uncertainty with intuitionistic fuzzy sets.Applied intelligence (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2021Article
- Relieving Cost of Epidemic by Parrondo's Paradox: A COVID-19 Case Study.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Generalized Solutions of Parrondo's Games.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Can Environmental Manipulation Help Suppress Cancer? Non-Linear Competition Among Tumor Cells in Periodically Changing Conditions.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Predator Dormancy is a Stable Adaptive Strategy due to Parrondo's Paradox.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many predators produce dormant offspring to escape harsh environmental conditions, but the evolutionary stability of this adaptation has not been fully explored. Like seed banks in plants, dormancy provides a stable competitive advantage when seasonal variations occur, because the persistence of dormant forms under harsh conditions compensates for the increased cost of producing dormant offspring. However, dormancy also exists in environments with minimal abiotic variation-an observation not accounted for by existing theory. Here it is demonstrated that dormancy can out-compete perennial activity under conditions of extensive prey density fluctuation caused by overpredation. It is shown that at a critical level of prey density fluctuations, dormancy becomes an evolutionarily stable strategy. This is interpreted as a manifestation of Parrondo's paradox: although neither the active nor dormant forms of a dormancy-capable predator can individually out-compete a perennially active predator, alternating between these two losing strategies can paradoxically result in a winning strategy. Parrondo's paradox may thus explain the widespread success of quiescent behavioral strategies such as dormancy, suggesting that dormancy emerges as a natural evolutionary response to the self-destructive tendencies of overpredation and related biological phenomena.
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