ArticleEcology letters2022
Dispersal syndromes in challenging environments: A cross-species experiment.
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- Simple mechanistic traits outperform complex syndromes in predicting avian dispersal distances.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Temporal dynamics and adaptiveness of thermal phenotypic plasticity in a ciliate.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Plasticity of Dispersal-Related Larval Traits in the Clown AnemonefishEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Phenotypic and dispersal plasticity are not alternative strategies for organisms to face thermal changes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The biotic and abiotic contexts of ecological selection mediate the dominance of distinct dispersal strategies in competitive metacommunities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The interplay between abiotic and biotic factors in dispersal decisions in metacommunities.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
- Enhanced dispersal capacity in edge population individuals of a rapidly expanding butterfly.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Body size and life history shape the historical biogeography of tetrapods.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Dispersal syndromes in challenging environments: A cross-species experiment.Ecology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dispersal is a central biological process tightly integrated into life-histories, morphology, physiology and behaviour. Such associations, or syndromes, are anticipated to impact the eco-evolutionary dynamics of spatially structured populations, and cascade into ecosystem processes. As for dispersal on its own, these syndromes are likely neither fixed nor random, but conditional on the experienced environment. We experimentally studied how dispersal propensity varies with individuals' phenotype and local environmental harshness using 15 species ranging from protists to vertebrates. We reveal a general phenotypic dispersal syndrome across studied species, with dispersers being larger, more active and having a marked locomotion-oriented morphology and a strengthening of the link between dispersal and some phenotypic traits with environmental harshness. Our proof-of-concept metacommunity model further reveals cascading effects of context-dependent syndromes on the local and regional organisation of functional diversity. Our study opens new avenues to advance our understanding of the functioning of spatially structured populations, communities and ecosystems.
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