Codes and data from: The effect of habitat choice on evolutionary rescue in subdivided populations

Evolutionary rescue is the process by which a population, in response to an environmental change, successfully avoids extinction through adaptation. In spatially structured environments, dispersal can affect the probability of rescue. Here, we model an environment consisting of patches that degrade one after another, and we investigate the probability of rescue by a mutant adapted to the degraded habitat. We focus on the effects of dispersal and of immigration biases. We find that the probability of evolutionary rescue can undergo up to three regions: (i) starting from low dispersal rates, it increases with dispersal; (ii) at intermediate dispersal rates, it decreases; (iii) finally, at large dispersal rates, the probability of rescue increases again with dispersal, except if mutants are too counter-selected in not-yet-degraded patches. The probability of rescue is generally highest when mutant and wild-type individuals preferentially immigrate into patches that have already undergone e...