Toward ecoevolutionary dynamics.

COMMENTARY Towardecoevolutionarydynamics Karl Sigmund a,1 and Robert D. Holt b  AsbiologistAndrewHendryrecentlywrote,"research initiatives in ecology and evolution have periodically dated but never married" (1). Maynard Smith was the first to apply this insight to the frequency-dependent selection of phenotypic traits, using game theory (5). Ecoevolution The relation of evolution with ecology seems more promising (1, 9).Thesuccessofagiventraitoftendependsonthefrequencyof some trait in another population, as well as on population densities. Evolutionary Game Theory Often, the success of a trait depends on the trait values of other members of its population, and on their abundance. [Extracted from the article]