Dispersal

Edited by Jean Clobert, Etienne Danchin, Andre A. Dhondt, and James D. Nichols

A comprehensive and cross-taxonomic review of dispersal written by leading researchers in the field
Proposes a new framework for understanding the evolution of dispersal
Surveys and assesses the new genetic and demographic techniques that can be used to study dispersal

Dispersal

Edited by Jean Clobert, Etienne Danchin, Andre A. Dhondt, and James D. Nichols

Description

The ability of species to migrate that has interested ecologists for many years. Now that so many species and ecosystems face major environmental change, the ability of species to adapt to these changes by dispersing, migrating, or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survivial. This book provides a timely and wide-ranging overview of the study of dispersal and incorporates much of the latest research. The causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal at the individual, population, species and community levels are considered. The potential of new techniques and models for studying dispersal, drawn from molecular biology and demography, is also explored. Perspectives and insights are offered from the fields of evolution, conservation biology and genetics. Throughout the book, theoretical approaches are combined with empirical data, and care has been taken to include examples from as wide a range of species as possible.

Dispersal

Edited by Jean Clobert, Etienne Danchin, Andre A. Dhondt, and James D. Nichols

Preface, Peter Waser
Introduction, Clobert, Wolff, Nichols, Danchin, and Dhondt
PART 1 - Measures of Dispersal: Genetic and Demographic Approaches
1:Methods for estimating dispersal probabilities and related parameters using marked animals, Bennetts et al
2:Genetic approaches to the estimation of dispersal rates, Rousset
3:How to measure dispersal: The genetic approach. The example of fire ants, Ross
4:Dispersal in Pikas (Ochotona princeps): Combining genetic and demographic approaches to reveal spatial and temporal patterns, Peacock and Ray
5:Mathematics, genetics, and demography: How to combine them?, Ferrière and Le Galliard
PART 2 - Why disperse? Habitat variability, intraspecific interactions, multi-determinism, and interspecific interactions
6:On the relationship between the Ideal Free Distribution and the evolution of dispersal, Holt and Barfield
7:The landscape context of dispersal, Wiens
8:Dispersal, intraspecific competition, kin competition, and kin facilitation: A review of the empirical evidence, Lambin, Aars, Piertney
9:Inbreeding, kinship, and the evolution of natal dispersal, Perrin and Goudet
10:Inbreeding versus outbreeding in captive and wild populations of naked mole-rats, O'Riain and Braude
11:Multiple causes of the evolution of dispersal, Gandon and Michalakis
12:Parasitism and predation as causes of dispersal, Weisser, McCoy and Boulinier
12a:Dispersal and parasitism, Boulinier, McCoy, and Sorci
12b:The effects of predation on dispersal, Weisser
PART 3 - Mechanisms of dispersal. Genetically based dispersal, condition-dependent dispersal, and dispersal cues
13:The genetic basis of dispersal and migration and its consequences for the evolution of correlated traits, Roff and Fairbairn
14:Condition-dependent dispersal, Ims and Hjermann
15:Proximate mechanisms of natal dispersal: The role of body condition and hormones, Dufty and Belthoff
16:Habitat selection by dispersers: Integrating proximate and ultimate approaches, Stamps
17:Public information and breeding habitat selection, Danchin, Heg, and Doligez
PART 4 - Dispersal from the individual to the ecosystem level: Individuals, populations, species, and communities
18:Dispersal, individual phenotype, and phenotypic plasticity, Murren et al
19:Dispersal and the genetic properties of metapopulations, Whitlock
20:Population dynamic consequences of dispersal in local populations and in metapopulations, Hanski
21:Dispersal in antagonistic interactions, Van Baalen and Hochberg
22:The properties of competitive communities with coupled local and regional dynamics, Mouquet et al
PART 5 - Perspectives
23:The evolutionary consequences of gene flow and local adaptation: Future approaches, Barton
24:Perspectives on the study of dispersal evolution, Ronce et al
25:Dispersal in theory and practice: Consequences for conservation biology, MacDonald and Johnson
References
Index

Dispersal

Edited by Jean Clobert, Etienne Danchin, Andre A. Dhondt, and James D. Nichols

Author Information

Edited by Jean Clobert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Etienne Danchin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Andre A. Dhondt, Cornell University, Ithaca, and James D. Nichols, Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre, Maryland