Up to now, there have been a great number of studies that demonstrate the effect of spatial
topology on the promotion of cooperation dynamics (namely, the so-called “spatial …

Ecological systems are complex assemblies of large numbers of individuals, interacting
competitively under multifaceted environmental conditions. Recent studies using microbial …

Cooperative behavior, the costly provision of benefits to others, is common across all
domains of life. This review article discusses cooperative behavior in the microbial world …

Strategy changes are an essential part of evolutionary games. Here, we introduce a simple
rule that, depending on the value of a single parameter w, influences the selection of players …

The concept of fitness as a measure for a species' success in natural selection is central to
the theory of evolution. We here investigate how reproduction rates which are not constant …

Existing theoretical models of evolution focus on the relative fitness advantages of different
mutants in a population while the dynamic behavior of the population size is mostly left …

Microbes providing public goods are widespread in nature despite running the risk of being
exploited by free-riders. However, the precise ecological factors supporting cooperation are …

Environment plays a fundamental role in the competition for resources, and hence in the
evolution of populations. Here, we study a well-mixed, finite population consisting of two …

The success of imitation as an evolutionary driving force in spatial games has often been
questioned, especially for social dilemmas such as the snowdrift game, where the most …

Analyzing coexistence and survival scenarios of Lotka-Volterra (LV) networks in which the
total biomass is conserved is of vital importance for the characterization of long-term …