Dispersal costs can be classified into energetic, time, risk and opportunity costs and may be
levied directly or deferred during departure, transfer and settlement. They may equally be …

Dispersal is a process of central importance for the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of
populations and communities, because of its diverse consequences for gene flow and …

Habitat fragmentation, an important element of current global change, has profound
repercussions on population and species extinction. Landscape fragmentation reduces …

Although generations of researchers have studied the factors that limit the distributions of
species, we still do not seem to understand this phenomenon comprehensively …

Recent syntheses on the evolutionary causes of dispersal have focused on dispersal as a
direct adaptation, but many traits that influence dispersal have other functions, raising the …

Understanding the causes and consequences of dispersal remains a central topic in
ecology and evolution. However, a mismatch exists between our empirical understanding of …

Dispersal, the tendency for organisms to reproduce away from their parents, influences
many evolutionary and ecological processes, from speciation and extinction events, to the …

Due to its impact on local adaptation, population functioning or range shifts, dispersal is
considered a central process for population persistence and species evolution. However …

Carrying capacity is a key concept in ecology. A body of theory, based on the logistic
equation, has extended predictions of carrying capacity to spatially distributed, dispersing …

Dispersal strategies are important mechanisms underlying the spatial distribution and
colonizing ability of all mobile species. In the current study, we use highly polymorphic …