The prediction and measurement of ecological niche are fundamental part of modern ecology in both practical and theoretical aspects. It has strong relationship with competitive Lotka-Volterra system and can be served as an intuitive approach to study competition interaction.

 

I will introduce some basic idea of niche theory in the first few parts and talk about my recent study of the connection between niche theory and traveling wave theory in 2 component DLV ＆ evolutionary game theory in the last parts of this speech.

 

Reference

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[2] May, R. M. (2019). Stability and complexity in model ecosystems (Vol. 1). Princeton university press.

[3] Hosono, Y. (1998). The minimal speed of traveling fronts for a diffusive Lotka-Volterra competition model. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 60(3), 435-448.

[4] Nowak, M. A. (2006). Evolutionary dynamics: exploring the equations of life. Harvard university press.