Knowledge of the ecological and evolutionary causes of dispersal can be crucial in
understanding the behaviour of spatially structured populations, and predicting how species …

▪ Abstract Individual-based models (IBMs) allow the explicit inclusion of individual variation
in greater detail than do classical differential-equation and difference-equation models …

Evolutionary and population dynamics models suggest that the migration rate will affect the
probability of survival in fragmented landscapes. Using data for butterfly species in the …

Species' range expansions in response to climate change, and the invasion of exotic
organisms, are two of the most pressing issues in ecology. Range expansions have already …

This advanced textbook is the first to explore the consequences of plant dispersal for
population and community dynamics, spatial patterns, and evolution. It successfully …

Explanations for rapid species' range expansions have typically been purely ecological, with
little attention given to evolutionary processes. We tested predictions for the evolution of …

Many organisms live in ephemeral habitats, making dispersal a vital element of life history.
Here, we investigate how dispersal rate evolves in response to habitat persistence, mean …

Despite a large body of empirical evidence suggesting that the dispersal rates of many
species depend on population density, most metapopulation models assume a density …

Based on a marginal value approach, we derive a nonlinear expression for evolutionarily
stable (ES) dispersal rates in a metapopulation with global dispersal. For the general case of …

We use an individual-based, spatially realistic metapopulation model to study the evolution
of migration rate. We first explore the consequences of habitat change in hypothetical patch …