Integration of sociobiology and community ecology by life history strategy theory : widely focusing on invasive ants, clonal plants and corals

蚂蚁、白蚁、克隆植物和珊瑚是保护生物多样性和生态系统服务的关键类群。他们有一个共同的特点，即。e.空间固定生命的超有机体。我们试图通过关注这些生物如何适应环境干扰来整合这些类群的社会生物学和群落生态学。这种方法在纯科学和应用的角度（如控制生物入侵）都很重要。我们注意到后代大小和迁移距离之间的权衡（与资源分配有关的权衡）。我们从理论上预测了各种干扰制度下的适应性生活史模式。为了推广这个想法，我们使用了一个矩阵模型的生活史进化，除了空间明确的模拟模型。我们还关注了不同类型的竞争（干扰或剥削）。我们已经获得了一些看似普遍的预测，这些预测将在蚂蚁，白蚁，植物和珊瑚中进行测试。在日本举行了两次与这一专题有关的国际专题讨论会。

Ants, termites, clonal plants and corals are key taxa for conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. They share the characteristic, i. e. superorganisms of spatially fixed life. We tried to integrate sociobiology and community ecology of those taxa by focusing on how those organisms are adapted to environmental disturbances. Such an approach is important both in purely scientifically and applied perspectives(such as controlling biological invasion). We noticed a trade off between offspring size and migration distance(trade off related to the resource partitioning). We theoretically predicted the adaptive life history patterns under various disturbance regimes. To generalize the idea we used a matrix model of life history evolution in addition to spatially explicit simulation models. We also focused on different types of competition(interference or exploitative). We have obtained some seemingly general predictions that are going to be tested in ants, termites, plants and corals. Two international symposia were held in Japan related to this topic.