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Michel WIEVIORKA, L'impératif numérique
Compte rendu.Compte rendu de Michel WIEVIORKA, L'impératif numérique, Paris : CNRS éditions, 2013, 64 p. publié dans le Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, n°1, mars 2014, p. 189-191
Extraordinary Sex Ratios: Cultural Effects on Ecological Consequences
We model sex-structured population dynamics to analyze pairwise competition
between groups differing both genetically and culturally. A sex-ratio allele is
expressed in the heterogametic sex only, so that assumptions of Fisher's
analysis do not apply. Sex-ratio evolution drives cultural evolution of a
group-associated trait governing mortality in the homogametic sex. The two-sex
dynamics under resource limitation induces a strong Allee effect that depends
on both sex ratio and cultural trait values. We describe the resulting
threshold, separating extinction from positive growth, as a function of female
and male densities. When initial conditions avoid extinction due to the Allee
effect, different sex ratios cannot coexist; in our model, greater female
allocation always invades and excludes a lesser allocation. But the culturally
transmitted trait interacts with the sex ratio to determine the ecological
consequences of successful invasion. The invading female allocation may permit
population persistence at self-regulated equilibrium. For this case, the
resident culture may be excluded, or may coexist with the invader culture. That
is, a single sex-ratio allele in females and a cultural dimorphism in male
mortality can persist; a low-mortality resident trait is maintained by
father-to-son cultural transmission. Otherwise, the successfully invading
female allocation excludes the resident allele and culture, and then drives the
population to extinction via a shortage of males. Finally, we show that the
results obtained under homogeneous mixing hold, with caveats, in a spatially
explicit model with local mating and diffusive dispersal in both sexes.Comment: final version, reflecting changes in response to referees' comment
Roberto CASATI, Contre le colonialisme numérique. Manifeste pour continuer à lire
Compte rendu.Compte rendu de Roberto CASATI, Contre le colonialisme numérique. Manifeste pour continuer à lire, coll. "Bibliothèque Idées", Albin Michel, 2013, 208 p. publié dans le Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, n°1, mars 2014, p. 187-189
Olivier ERTZSCHEID, Qu'est-ce que l'identité numérique ? Enjeux, outils, méthodologies
Compte rendu.Compte rendu de Olivier Ertzscheid, Qu'est-ce que l'identité numérique ? Enjeux, outils, méthodologies [en ligne], coll. " Encyclopédie numérique ", OpenEdition Press, 2013, 72 p., URL : http://books.openedition.org/oep/332 publié dans le Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, n°2, juin 2014, p. 192-193
Restoration Ecology: Two-Sex Dynamics and Cost Minimization
We model a spatially detailed, two-sex population dynamics, to study the cost
of ecological restoration. We assume that cost is proportional to the number of
individuals introduced into a large habitat. We treat dispersal as homogeneous
diffusion. The local population dynamics depends on sex ratio at birth, and
allows mortality rates to differ between sexes. Furthermore, local density
dependence induces a strong Allee effect, implying that the initial population
must be sufficiently large to avert rapid extinction. We address three
different initial spatial distributions for the introduced individuals; for
each we minimize the associated cost, constrained by the requirement that the
species must be restored throughout the habitat. First, we consider spatially
inhomogeneous, unstable stationary solutions of the model's equations as
plausible candidates for small restoration cost. Second, we use numerical
simulations to find the smallest cluster size, enclosing a spatially
homogeneous population density, that minimizes the cost of assured restoration.
Finally, by employing simulated annealing, we minimize restoration cost among
all possible initial spatial distributions of females and males. For biased sex
ratios, or for a significant between-sex difference in mortality, we find that
sex-specific spatial distributions minimize the cost. But as long as the sex
ratio maximizes the local equilibrium density for given mortality rates, a
common homogeneous distribution for both sexes that spans a critical distance
yields a similarly low cost
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