SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Evidence for dispersal syndromes in freshwater fishes.
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- Age, morphology, and environmental variation shape movement behaviour syndromes in a riverine fish - golden perch (Macquaria ambigua).Movement ecology · 2026Article
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- Simple mechanistic traits outperform complex syndromes in predicting avian dispersal distances.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Effects of landscape fragmentation on floodplain fishes as revealed by species-habitat networks.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Phenotypic and dispersal plasticity are not alternative strategies for organisms to face thermal changes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Personality in juvenile Atlantic cod ecotypes and implications for fisheries management.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.Ecology letters · 2023Review
- Dispersal syndromes in challenging environments: A cross-species experiment.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Unravelling the causes and consequences of dispersal syndromes in a wild passerine.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Plastic cell morphology changes during dispersal.iScience · 2021Article
- Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sex differences in dispersal syndrome are modulated by environment and evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Dispersal is a fundamental process defining the distribution of organisms and has long been a topic of inquiry in ecology and evolution. Emerging research points to an interdependency of dispersal with a diverse suite of traits in terrestrial organisms, however the extent to which such dispersal syndromes exist in freshwater species remains uncertain. Here, we test whether dispersal in freshwater fishes (1) is a fixed property of species, and (2) correlates with life-history, morphological, ecological and behavioural traits, using a global dataset of dispersal distances collected from the literature encompassing 116 riverine species and 196 locations. Our meta-analysis revealed a high degree of repeatability and heritability in the dispersal estimates and strong associations with traits related to life-history strategies, energy allocation to reproduction, ecological specialization and swimming skills. Together, these results demonstrate that similar to terrestrial organisms, the multi-dimensional nature of dispersal syndromes in freshwater species offer opportunities for the development of a unifying paradigm of movement ecology that transcend taxonomic and biogeographical realms. The high explanatory power of the models also suggests that trait-based and phylogenetic approaches hold considerable promises to inform conservation efforts in a rapidly changing world.
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