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Dispersal

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ISBN-10: 0198506597

ISBN-13: 9780198506591

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jean Clobert, Etienne Danchin, Andr� A. Dhondt, James D. Nichols, James D. Nichols

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.45" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Foreword
List of contributors
Introduction
Measures of dispersal: genetic and demographic approaches
Methods for estimating dispersal probabilities and related parameters using marked animals
Genetic approaches to the estimation of dispersal rates
How to measure dispersal: the genetic approach. The example of fire ants
Dispersal in pikas (Ochotona princeps): combining genetic and demographic approaches to reveal spatial and temporal patterns
Invasion fitness and adaptive dynamics in spatial population models
Why disperse? Habitat variability, intraspecific interactions, multi-determinism, and interspecific interactions
On the relationship between the ideal free distribution and the evolution of dispersal
The landscape context of dispersal
Dispersal, intraspecific competition, kin competition and kin facilitation: a review of the empirical evidence
Inbreeding, kinship, and the evolution of natal dispersal
Inbreeding versus outbreeding in captive and wild populations of naked mole-rats
Multiple causes of the evolution of dispersal
Parasitism and predation as causes of dispersal
Dispersal and parasitism
The effects of predation on dispersal
Mechanisms of dispersal: genetically based dispersal, condition-dependent dispersal, and dispersal cues
The genetic basis of dispersal and migration, and its consequences for the evolution of correlated traits
Condition-dependent dispersal
Proximate mechanisms of natal dispersal: the role of body condition and hormones
Habitat selection by dispersers: integrating proximate and ultimate approaches
Public information and breeding habitat selection
Dispersal from the individual to the ecosystem level: individuals, populations, species, and communities
Dispersal, individual phenotype, and phenotypic plasticity
Dispersal and the genetic properties of metapopulations
Population dynamic consequences of dispersal in local populations and in metapopulations
Dispersal in antagonistic interactions
The properties of competitive communities with coupled local and regional dynamics
Perspectives
The evolutionary consequences of gene flow and local adaptation: future approaches
Perspectives on the study of dispersal evolution
Dispersal in theory and practice: consequences for conservation biology
References
Index