Parameter Value Description
K 1000 Carrying capacity
γ 2.2 Strength of selection. Moderate selection (Björklund et al. 2009)
σ2 1 Variance of the stochastic environment
θ0 0 Initial environmental optimum
η 0, 0.01, 0.02, 0.025, 0.03, 0.04 Rate of environmental change
α -0.8, -0.6, -0.4, -0.2, 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 Level of environmental autocorrelation (scenarios of stochasticity)
ψ 0.5, 1.0, 1.8, 2.5 Density dependence effect (life history strategy) (as in Björklund et al. 2009)
z evolving trait Ecological phenotype
b 0.5 Slope of the linear reaction norm
VG 0.2 Initial genetic variance present in the population (Vincenzi 2014)
L 1 Number of loci per evolving trait
μ 10-3, 10-4 Mutation rate*
MV 0.2 Variance of the distribution of mutations fitness effect size (Vincenzi 2014)
t 100, 250 Time limit per simulation, in generations
sd 10 and 20% the value of K Standard deviation of the stochastic carrying capacity