Laboratory microcosm experiments using protists as model organisms have a long tradition
and are widely used to investigate general concepts in population biology, community …

Ecology and evolution unfold in spatially structured communities, where dispersal links
dynamics across scales. Because dispersal is multicausal, identifying general drivers …

Spatial heterogeneity in the distribution of phenotypes among populations is of major
importance for species evolution and ecosystem functioning. Dispersal has long been …

Understanding and predicting the dynamics of range expansion is a major topic in ecology
both for invasive species extending their ranges into non‐native regions and for species …

Dispersal and the underlying movement behaviour are processes of pivotal importance for
understanding and predicting metapopulation and metacommunity dynamics. Generally …

Paramecium has long been a model eukaryote. The sequence of the Paramecium
tetraurelia genome reveals a history of three successive whole-genome duplications …

A challenge for conservation management is to understand how population and habitat
dynamics interact to affect species persistence. In real landscapes, timing and duration of …

Dispersal and phenotypic plasticity are two main ways for species to deal with rapid
changes of their environments. Understanding how genotypes (G), environments (E), and …

Movement and dispersal are critical processes for almost all organisms in natural
populations. Understanding their causes and consequences is therefore of high interest …

Movement away from an area or social group in response to increasing density (density‐
dependent dispersal) is known for most species; why it evolves is fundamental to our …