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 …

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

Dispersal is a fundamental parameter of population processes. In small and isolated
populations, linked only when individuals are able to disperse between them, it becomes a …

Dispersal is a key component of a species's ecology and will be under different selection
pressures in different parts of the range. For example, a long-distance dispersal strategy …

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 has become central to many questions in theoretical and applied ecology in
recent years. This has come about through advances in measurement and modelling 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 …

Increasingly, conservationists are seeking insights from ecological theory to choose
strategies of habitat management that will best maintain threatened species. Often, these …

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of
species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of …

Within the field of population biology, dispersal behaviour may be seen as the glue linking a
variety of ecological, evolutionary and behavioural issues (Stenseth & Lidicker 1992). This is …