ReviewInsects2020
A Review of the Phenotypic Traits Associated with Insect Dispersal Polymorphism, and Experimental Designs for Sorting out Resident and Disperser Phenotypes.
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- Evolution of dispersal capacities during range expansion: size and behaviour matter in an arthropod invading the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen archipelago.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Livestock shifts lepidopteran herbivore community due to intraguild elimination in Mediterranean agroforestry systems.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Relationship between genetic diversity and morpho-functional characteristics of flight-related traits in Triatoma garciabesi (Hemiptera: Reduviidae).Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Enhanced dispersal capacity in edge population individuals of a rapidly expanding butterfly.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Traits Underlying Experimentally Evolved Dispersal Behavior inJournal of insect behavior · 2024Article
- Differential response of fire on the community dynamics of five insect taxa in a tropical mountaintop forest archipelago.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- House Flies Are Underappreciated Yet Important Reservoirs and Vectors of Microbial Threats to Animal and Human Health.Microorganisms · 2023Review
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- Morphological Variation in Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) After Three Decades of an Island Invasion.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2023Article
- Sex specificity of dispersal behaviour and flight morphology varies among tree hollow beetle species.Movement ecology · 2022Article
- Population Genetic Structure of the Bean Leaf BeetleInsects · 2022Article
- Spotlight on the invasion of a carabid beetle on an oceanic island over a 105-year period.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Wing morphological responses to latitude and colonisation in a range expanding butterfly.PeerJ · 2020Article
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Abstract
Dispersal represents a key life-history trait with several implications for the fitness of organisms, population dynamics and resilience, local adaptation, meta-population dynamics, range shifting, and biological invasions. Plastic and evolutionary changes of dispersal traits have been intensively studied over the past decades in entomology, in particular in wing-dimorphic insects for which literature reviews are available. Importantly, dispersal polymorphism also exists in wing-monomorphic and wingless insects, and except for butterflies, fewer syntheses are available. In this perspective, by integrating the very latest research in the fast moving field of insect dispersal ecology, this review article provides an overview of our current knowledge of dispersal polymorphism in insects. In a first part, some of the most often used experimental methodologies for the separation of dispersers and residents in wing-monomorphic and wingless insects are presented. Then, the existing knowledge on the morphological and life-history trait differences between resident and disperser phenotypes is synthetized. In a last part, the effects of range expansion on dispersal traits and performance is examined, in particular for insects from range edges and invasion fronts. Finally, some research perspectives are proposed in the last part of the review.
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