Why mussels stick together: spatial self-organization affects the evolution of cooperation

M de Jager, FJ Weissing, J van de Koppel - Evolutionary Ecology, 2017 - Springer
Cooperation with neighbours may be crucial for the persistence of populations in stressful
environments. Yet, cooperation is often not evolutionarily stable, since non-cooperative …

Patterning in mussel beds explained by the interplay of multi-level selection and spatial self-organization

M De Jager, J Van de Koppel, EJ Weerman… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cooperation, ubiquitous in nature, is difficult to explain from an evolutionary perspective.
Many modeling studies strive to resolve this challenge, but their simplifying assumptions on …