Altered sex-specific mortality and female mating success: ecological effects and evolutionary responses

Theory predicts that males and females should often join the mating pool at different times (sexual dimorphism in timing of emergence [ SDT ]) as the degree of SDT affects female mating success. We utilize an analytical model to explore (1) how important SDT is for female mating success, (2) how mating success might change if either sex's mortality (abruptly) increases, and (3) to what degree evolutionary responses in SDT may be able to mitigate...