Evolutionary games provide a new perspective to examine and understand interactive behaviors in complex systems, and provide powerful tools and methods for research in several fields. Much of the existing literature focuses on the study of the dynamical behavior of deterministic ecological game models, and doesn’t explore the influence of population and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of ecological evolutionary games. Thus, this paper considered environmental random noise, and constructed a stochastic evolutionary game dynamics model with density dependence considering individual birth and death rates. Dynamics of the constructed model was analyzed to confirm the effect of random noise on the trends of ecological evolution. Firstly, the effect of noise on ecological evolutionary game models with density dependence is shown by analyzing the equilibrium points and their stability of the dynamical models of ecological evolutionary games with density dependence indeed, and by proving the stability of the corresponding stochastic evolutionary game models using stochastic Lyapunov theory. Secondly, the threshold value of environmental noise was obtained from the study. When the environmental noise value is greater than the threshold, population extinction and phenotype disappearance are almost surely exponentially stable. Conversely, when the environmental noise value is less than a certain threshold, the frequency of phenotypes with higher birth rates is persistent in mean. Finally, the theoretical verification and numerical simulation were carried out with the deer hunting game model as an example to confirm the validity and feasibility of the theory. This result also provides a new idea for understanding how environmental fluctuations contribute to the evolution of phenotypic diversity.
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