Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue

Almost all life on earth is facing environmental change, and understanding how populations will respond to these changes is of urgent importance. One factor that is known to affect the speed by which a population can evolve when faced with changes in the environment is strong sexual selection. This increases the adaptive capacity of a population by increasing reproductive skew towards well-adapted (usually) males who will, on average, be best able to compete for matings. This effect could potentially be disrupted when males pursue alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs), whereby males within a species exhibit qualitatively different behaviours in their pursuit of matings. ARTs are diverse but one common class is those expressed through condition-dependent polyphenism such that high-quality, well-adapted males compete aggressively for mates and low-quality, poorly adapted males attempt to acquire matings via other, non-aggressive behaviours. Here, using an individual-based modelling appr..., Data are outputs from simulation modelling., , # Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue

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Dataset is a set of outputs from simulation modelling of the influence of the use of alternative reproductive tactics by males on adaptation rates and the likelihood of evolutionary rescue in a changing environment. The code for the model and for running simulations and visualising the results is also included.

## Description of the data and file structure

There are four data files with model output. These are:

**output_drectional_100reps.csv**

Simulation output used for the analysis of extinction probability (figure 2)

**output_step_return_100reps.csv**

Simulation output used for the analysis of return times after step change (figure 3)

**output_effect_size_100reps.csv**

Simulation output used for the analysis of Critical Rates of Environmental Change (Supplementary material)

**output_ART_success_100reps.csv**

Simulation output used for the ana...