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An empiricist's guide to theoretical predictions on the evolution of dispersal.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Evidence for dispersal syndromes in freshwater fishes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of Landscape Compositional Heterogeneity and Spatial Autocorrelation on Environmental Niche and Dispersal in Simulated Organisms.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Habitat Association Predicts Population Connectivity and Persistence in Flightless Beetles: A Population Genomics Approach Within a Dynamic Archipelago.Molecular ecology · 2024Article
- How Important Is Informed Natal Dispersal for Modelling the Demographic and Genetic Effects of Environmental Variability?Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Pappus phenotypes and flight performance across evolutionary history in the daisy family.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Ecotones as Windows into Organismal-to-Biome Scale Responses across Neotropical Forests.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Dispersal evolution alters evolution-mediated priority effects in a metacommunity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Evolutionary ecology of dispersal in biodiverse spatially structured systems: what is old and what is new?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- The macro-eco-evolutionary interplay between dispersal, competition and landscape structure in generating biodiversity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Determinants of natal dispersal distances in North American birds.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Dispersal, kin aggregation, and the fitness consequences of not spreading sibling larvae.Ecology · 2023Article
- Spatial coalescent connectivity through multi-generation dispersal modelling predicts gene flow across marine phyla.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Effects of environment and genotype on dispersal differ across departure, transfer and settlement in a butterfly metapopulation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Limits to the evolution of dispersal kernels under rapid fragmentation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Artificial selection for timing of dispersal in predatory mites yields lines that differ in prey exploitation strategies.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Ecological and Evolutionary Implications of Microbial Dispersal.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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- gen3sis: A general engine for eco-evolutionary simulations of the processes that shape Earth's biodiversity.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- Seed dispersal as a search strategy: dynamic and fragmented landscapes select for multi-scale movement strategies in plants.Movement ecology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Dispersal, the tendency for organisms to reproduce away from their parents, influences many evolutionary and ecological processes, from speciation and extinction events, to the coexistence of genotypes within species or biological invasions. Understanding how dispersal evolves is crucial to predict how global changes might affect species persistence and geographical distribution. The factors driving the evolution of dispersal have been well characterized from a theoretical standpoint, and predictions have been made about their respective influence on, for example, dispersal polymorphism or the emergence of dispersal syndromes. However, the experimental tests of some theories remain scarce partly because a synthetic view of theoretical advances is still lacking. Here, we review the different ingredients of models of dispersal evolution, from selective pressures and types of predictions, through mathematical and ecological assumptions, to the methods used to obtain predictions. We provide perspectives as to which predictions are easiest to test, how theories could be better exploited to provide testable predictions, what theoretical developments are needed to tackle this topic, and we place the question of the evolution of dispersal within the larger interdisciplinary framework of eco-evolutionary dynamics.
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