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Fig. 5 | BMC Ecology

Fig. 5

From: Strategies of offspring investment and dispersal in a spatially structured environment: a theoretical study using ants

Fig. 5

Influence of habitat aggregation and resources on strategy abundance. Stacked bar-graphs indicating total number of colonies in each simulated environment (mean ± SE for DCF in red and ICF in blue) for two-strategy scenarios in landscapes of varied spatial heterogeneity (left) or varied resources (right). Left hand bars show influence of habitat aggregation on abundance of strategies in harlequin landscapes divided into colonies on good (dark) and bad (light) patches under the reference parameters. Note that the degree of habitat aggregation is not contiguous between random and aggregated landscapes (H = 0–1). Right hand bars illustrate the dominance of DCF in an ‘all good’ landscape versus and ‘all bad’ landscape compared to our reference uniform conditions

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