List of publications

Journal articles

É. Kisdi & G. Meszéna (1995): Life histories with lottery competition in a stochastic environment: ESSs which do not prevail. Theoretical Population Biology 47: 191-211.
É. Jablonka, B. Oborny, I. Molnár, É. Kisdi, J. Hofbauer & T. Czárán (1995): The adaptive advantage of phenotypic memory in changing environments. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 350: 133-141.
E. Pásztor, G. Meszéna & É. Kisdi (1996): R0 or r: A matter of taste? J. evol. Biol. 9:511-518.
S.A.H. Geritz, J.A.J. Metz, É. Kisdi & G. Meszéna (1997): Dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary branching. Phys. Rev. Letters 78: 2024-2027.
Kisdi, G. Meszéna & E. Pásztor (1998): Individual optimization: Mechanisms shaping the optimal reaction norm. Evol. Ecol. 12: 211-221.
S.A.H. Geritz, É. Kisdi, G. Meszéna & J.A.J. Metz (1998): Evolutionarily singular strategies and the adaptive growth and branching of the evolutionary tree. Evol. Ecol. 12: 35-57.
É. Kisdi (1998): Frequency dependence versus optimization. TREE 13: 508.
É. Kisdi (1999): Evolutionary branching under asymmetric competition. J. theor. Biol. 197: 149-162.
É. Kisdi & S.A.H Geritz (1999): Adaptive dynamics in allele space: Evolution of genetic polymorphism by small mutations in a heterogeneous environment. Evolution 53: 993-1008.
E. Pásztor, É. Kisdi & G. Meszéna (2000): Jensen's inequality and optimal life history strategies in stochastic environments. TREE 15: 117-118.
É. Kisdi (2000): Sensitivity analysis, indirect interactions and inconsistency problems. TREE 15: 329.
S.A.H. Geritz & É. Kisdi (2000): Adaptive dynamics in diploid, sexual populations and the evolution of reproductive isolation. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267: 1671-1678.
A. Mathias, É. Kisdi & I. Olivieri (2001): Divergent evolution of dispersal in a heterogeneous landscape. Evolution 55: 246-259.	pdf
É. Kisdi (2001): Long-term adaptive diversity in Levene-type models. Evol. Ecol. Res. 3: 721-727.	pdf
É. Kisdi & S. A. H. Geritz (2001): Evolutionary disarmament in interspecific competition. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268: 2589-2594.
G. Meszéna, É. Kisdi, U. Dieckmann, S.A.H. Geritz & J.A.J. Metz (2001): Evolutionary optimisation models and matrix games in the unified perspective of adaptive dynamics. Selection 2: 193-210. (PDF courtesy of Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest)	pdf
É. Kisdi, F.J.A. Jacobs & S.A.H. Geritz (2001): Red Queen evolution by cycles of evolutionary branching and extinction. Selection 2: 161-176. (PDF courtesy of Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest)	pdf
A. Mathias & É. Kisdi (2002): Adaptive diversification of germination strategies. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269: 151-156.
É. Kisdi (2002): Dispersal: Risk spreading versus local adaptation. Am. Nat. 159: 579-596.
É. Kisdi & S.A.H. Geritz (2003): On the coexistence of perennial plants by the competition-colonization trade-off. Am. Nat. 161: 350-354.
É. Kisdi (2003): Reinforcement with multiple mating. TREE 18: 165-166.
É. Kisdi & S.A.H. Geritz (2003): Competition-colonization trade-off between perennial plants: Exclusion of the rare species, hysteresis effects, and the robustness of coexistence under replacement competition. Evol. Ecol. Res. 5: 529-548.	pdf
R.G. Bowers, A. White, M. Boots, S.A.H. Geritz & É. Kisdi (2003): Evolutionary branching/speciation: Contrasting results from systems with explicit or emergent carrying capacities. Evol. Ecol. Res. 5: 883-891.	pdf
É. Kisdi (2004): Optimal body size, density-dependent selection gradients, and phenotypic variance under asymmetric competition. Ecology 85: 1460-1467.
S. A. H. Geritz & É. Kisdi (2004): On the mechanistic underpinning of discrete-time population models with complex dynamics. J. theor. Biol. 228: 261-269.
É. Kisdi (2004): Conditional dispersal under kin competition: Extension of the Hamilton-May model to brood size-dependent dispersal. Theor. Pop. Biol. 66: 369-380.
É. Kisdi & M. Gyllenberg (2005): Adaptive dynamics and the paradigm of diversity. J. evol. Biol. 18: 1170-1173.
É. Kisdi & M. Utz (2005): Does quasi-local competition lead to pattern formation in metapopulations? An explicit resource competition model. Theor. Pop. Biol. 68: 133-145.
É. Kisdi & S. Liu (2006): Evolution of handling time can destroy the coexistence of cycling predators. J. evol. Biol. 19: 49-58.
É. Kisdi (2006): Trade-off geometries and the adaptive dynamics of two co-evolving species. Evol. Ecol. Res. 8: 959-973.	pdf
S.A.H. Geritz, É. Kisdi & P. Yan (2007): Evolutionary branching and long-term coexistence of cycling predators: Critical function analysis. Theor. Pop. Biol. 71: 424-435.
M. Utz, É. Kisdi & M. Doebeli (2007): Quasi-local competition in stage-structured metapopulations: A new mechanism of pattern formation. Bull. Math. Biol. 69: 1649-1672.
É. Kisdi (2007): No direct selection to increase offspring number of bet-hedging strategies in large populations: Simons' model revisited. J. evol. Biol. 20: 2072-2074.
M. Gyllenberg, É. Kisdi & M. Utz (2008): Evolution of condition-dependent dispersal under kin competition. J. Math. Biol. 57: 285-307.	SharedIt
T. O. Svennungsen & É. Kisdi (2009): Evolutionary branching of virulence in a single infection model. J. theor. Biol. 257: 408-418.
B. Boldin, S. A. H. Geritz & É. Kisdi (2009): Superinfections and adaptive dynamics of pathogen virulence revisited: A critical function analysis. Evol. Ecol. Res. 11: 153-175.	pdf
É. Kisdi (2010): Costly dispersal can destabilize the homogeneous equilibrium of a metapopulation. J. theor. Biol. 262: 279-283.
É. Kisdi & S. A. H. Geritz (2010): Adaptive dynamics: A framework to model evolution in the ecological theatre. J. Math. Biol. (Perspectives in Mathematical Biology) 61: 165-169.	SharedIt
O. Tal, E. Kisdi & E. Jablonka (2010): Epigenetic contribution to covariance between relatives. Genetics 184: 1037-1050.
A. Best, A. White, E. Kisdi, J. Antonovics, M. A. Brockhurst & M. Boots (2010): The evolution of host-parasite range. Am. Nat. 176: 63-71.
M. Gyllenberg, E. Kisdi & M. Utz (2011): Variability within families and the evolution of body condition dependent dispersal. J. Biol. Dyn. 5: 191-211.
M. Gyllenberg, E. Kisdi & M. Utz (2011): Body condition dependent dispersal in a heterogeneous environment. Theor. Pop. Biol. 79: 139-154.
E. Kisdi & T. Priklopil (2011): Evolutionary branching of a magic trait. J. Math. Biol. 63: 361-397.	SharedIt
É Kisdi (2012): Year-class coexistence in biennial plants. Theor. Pop. Biol. 82: 18-21.
B. Boldin & É Kisdi (2012): On the evolutionary dynamics of pathogens with direct and environmental transmission. Evolution 66: 2514-2527.	pdf (Author Version)
P. Norvaisas & É Kisdi (2012): Revisiting Santa Rosalia to unfold a degeneracy of classic models of speciation. Am. Nat. 180: 388-393.
S. A. H. Geritz & É Kisdi (2012): Mathematical ecology: Why mechanistic models? J. Math. Biol. (Perspectives in Mathematical Biology) 65: 1411–1415.	SharedIt
É. Kisdi & B. Boldin (2013): A construction method to study the role of incidence in the adaptive dynamics of pathogens with direct and environmental transmission. J. Math. Biol. 66: 1021–1044.	SharedIt     pdf (Author Version)
É. Kisdi, S. A. H. Geritz & B. Boldin (2013): Evolution of pathogen virulence under selective predation: A construction method to find eco-evolutionary cycles. J. theor. Biol. 339: 140-150.	pdf (Author Version)
É. Kisdi (2015): Construction of multiple trade-offs to obtain arbitrary singularities of adaptive dynamics. J. Math. Biol. 70: 1093–1117.	SharedIt     pdf (Author Version)
T. Priklopil, É. Kisdi & M. Gyllenberg (2015): Evolutionarily stable mating decisions for sequentially searching females and the stability of reproductive isolation by assortative mating. Evolution 69: 1015–1026.	pdf (Author Version)
Weigang H. C. & É. Kisdi (2015): Evolution of dispersal under a fecundity-dispersal trade-off. J. theor. Biol. 371: 145–153.	pdf (Author Version)
Kisdi É. (2016): Dispersal polymorphism in stable habitats. J. theor. Biol. 392: 69–82.	pdf (Author Version)
Boldin B. & É. Kisdi (2016): Evolutionary suicide through a non-catastrophic bifurcation: Adaptive dynamics of pathogens with frequency-dependent transmission. J. Math. Biol. 72: 1101-1124.	SharedIt     pdf (Author Version)
Kisdi É. & S. A. H. Geritz (2016): Adaptive dynamics of saturated polymorphisms. J. Math. Biol. 72: 1039-1079. (See correction in J. Math. Biol. online)	SharedIt     pdf (Author Version)     Correction: SharedIt
Gyllenberg M., É. Kisdi & H. C. Weigang (2016): On the evolution of patch-type dependent immigration. J. theor. Biol. 395: 115-125.	pdf (Author Version)
Karisto P. & É. Kisdi (2017): Evolution of dispersal under variable connectivity. J. theor. Biol. 419: 52–65.	pdf (Author Version)
Rybicki J., E. Kisdi & J. V. Anttila (2018): A model of bacterial toxin-dependent pathogenesis explains infective dose. PNAS 115: 10690-10695.	press release on phys.org     HU News (in Finnish)
Vitale C. & É. Kisdi (2019): Evolutionary suicide of prey: Matsuda & Abrams' model revisited. Bull. Math. Biol. 81: 4778-4802.	pdf (Author Version)
Karisto P. & E. Kisdi (2019): Joint evolution of dispersal and connectivity. Evolution 73: 2529–2537.
Kisdi E., H. C. Weigang & M. Gyllenberg (2020): The evolution of immigration strategies facilitates niche expansion by divergent adaptation in a structured metapopulation model. Am. Nat. 195: 1-15.	pdf (Author Version)
Kisdi E. (2020): TPB and the invasion of adaptive dynamics. Theor. Pop. Biol. 133: 52-55.	pdf (Author Version)
Kisdi E. (2024): Optimal vaccination strategies for imperfect vaccines and variable host susceptibility. J. theor. Biol. 594: 111899.	pdf (open access)

Book chapters

É. Kisdi & G. Meszéna (1993): Density dependent life history evolution in fluctuating environments. In: "Adaptation in a stochastic environment", eds. C.W. Clark & J. Yoshimura, Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol. 98, pp. 26-62, Springer Verlag, Berlin.	abstract
S.A.H. Geritz, É. Kisdi, G. Meszéna & J.A.J. Metz (2004): Adaptive dynamics of speciation: Ecological underpinnings. In: U. Dieckmann, M. Doebeli, J.A.J. Metz, & D. Tautz (eds): Adaptive speciation. Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-75.	pdf
É. Kisdi, M. Utz & M. Gyllenberg (2012): Evolution of condition-dependent dispersal. In: J. Clobert, M. Baguette, T. Benton & J. Bullock (eds): Dispersal Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press, pp. 139-151.
S.A.H. Geritz & É. Kisdi: Adaptive dynamics and evolutionary branching in mutation-limited evolution. In: U. Dieckmann & J.A.J. Metz (eds): Elements of adaptive dynamics, Cambridge University Press, in press
A. Mathias & É. Kisdi: Evolutionary branching and coexistence of germination strategies. In: U. Dieckmann & J.A.J. Metz (eds): Elements of adaptive dynamics, Cambridge University Press, in press
É. Kisdi & S.A.H. Geritz: Evolutionary branching and speciation: Insights from few-locus models. In: U. Dieckmann & J.A.J. Metz (eds): Elements of adaptive dynamics, Cambridge University Press, in press
É. Kisdi & B. Oborny (2007): Spatial ecology: habitat loss and fragmentation (in Hungarian: Helyigény - az élõhelyek beszûkülésének és feldarabolódásának veszélyei). In: E. Pásztor & B. Oborny (eds): Ecology (Ökológia), Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó Rt., Budapest (Hungary), pp. 312-332.

Preprints and technical reports

Geritz S.A.H., Metz J.A.J., Kisdi É. & Meszéna G. (1996): The Dynamics of Adaptation and Evolutionary Branching. IIASA Working Paper WP-96-077.	pdf
Geritz S.A.H., Kisdi É., Meszéna G. & Metz J.A.J. (1996): Evolutionarily Singular Strategies and the Adaptive Growth and Branching of the Evolutionary Tree. IIASA Working Paper WP-96-114.	pdf
Kisdi E. & Geritz S.A.H. (1998): Adaptive Dynamics in Allele Space: Evolution of Genetic Polymorphism by Small Mutations in a Heterogeneous Environment. IIASA Interim Report IR-98-038.	pdf
Kisdi É. (1998): Evolutionary Branching under Asymmetric Competition. IIASA Interim Report IR-98-045.	pdf
Mathias A. & Kisdi É. (1999): Evolutionary Branching and Coexistence of Germination Strategies. IIASA Interim Report IR-99-014.	pdf
Kisdi É. & Geritz S.A.H. (1999): Evolutionary Branching and Sympatric Speciation in Diploid Populations. IIASA Interim Report IR-99-048.	pdf
Kisdi É., Jacobs F.J.A. & Geritz S.A.H. (2000): Red Queen Evolution by Cycles of Evolutionary Branching and Extinction. IIASA Interim Report IR-00-030.	pdf
G. Meszéna, É. Kisdi, U. Dieckmann, S.A.H. Geritz & J.A.J. Metz (2000): Evolutionary optimisation models and matrix games in the unified perspective of adaptive dynamics. IIASA Interim Report IR-00-039.	pdf
É. Kisdi & M. Gyllenberg (2004): On some misconceptions about adaptive dynamics. TUCS Technical Report 624 (ISBN 952-12-1417-1)	pdf

Popular science

É. Kisdi (1987): Evolutionary ecology, or who is winning? Élet és tudomány 1987, p. 1638 (in Hungarian)

É. Kisdi (1997): Can people be "mass-produced" by cloning? Új ember 2 April 1997, p.2 (in Hungarian)

É. Kisdi (1999): Arms races, coexistence and disarmament in evolution. Természet Világa 130: 535-538 (in Hungarian)

É. Kisdi (2001): Frontiers of evolutionary biology. Természet Világa 132(12) (in Hungarian)

É. Kisdi (2005): Adaptive dynamics and the evolution of biodiversity. In: F. Jordán (ed.): A DNS-tõl a globális felmelegedésig. A 70 éves Vida Gábor köszöntése. Scientia, Budapest, pp. 67-76. (in Hungarian)