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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 habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to understanding how populations may persist. Dispersal Ecology and Evolution provides a timely and wide-ranging overview of the fast expanding field of dispersal ecology, incorporating the very latest research. The causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal at the individual, population, species, and community levels are considered. Perspectives and insights are offered from the fields of evolution, behavioural ecology, 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 - both plant and animal.

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Author:   Jean Clobert (, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS a Moulis, France) ,  Michel Baguette (, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France) ,  Tim G. Benton (, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK) ,  James M. Bullock (, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.956kg
ISBN:  

9780199608904

ISBN 10:   0199608903
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   27 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Jean Clobert, Michel Baguette, Tim G. Benton, and James M. Bullock: Preface Glossary Jean Clobert: Box 1. The common Lizard (Zootoca vivipara, anciently Lacerta vivipara) Dries Bonte: Box 2: Spiders as a model in dispersal ecology and evolution Ilkka Hanski: Box 3. Spatial structure and dynamics in the Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) metapopulation Pierre-Olivier Cheptou: Box 4. Heterocapy in Crepis sancta (Asteraceae) as a model system to study dispersal PART 1. THE MULTIPLE CAUSES OF THE DISPERSAL PROCESS 1: Erik Matthysen: Multicausality of dispersal 2: Jostein Starrfelt and Hanna Kokko: The multicausal nature of dispersal 3: Jean Clobert, Manuel Massot, and Jean-François Le Galliard: Multi-determinism in natal dispersal: the common lizard as a model system 4: Tim G. Benton and Diana E. Bowler: Dispersal in invertebrates: influences on individual decisions 5: Valérie Lehouck, Dries Bonte, Toon Spanhove, and Luc Lens: Integrating context- and stage-dependent effects in studies of frugivorous seed dispersal: an example from south-east Kenya PART 2. THE GENETICS OF DISPERSAL 6: Anthony J. Zera and Jennifer A. Brisson: Quantitative, physiological, and molecular genetics of dispersal/migration 7: Renée A. Duckworth: Evolution of genetically integrated strategies 8: Christopher W. Wheat: Dispersal genetics: emerging insights from fruitflies, butterfies, and beyond 9: Jocelyn C. Hall and Kathleen Donohue: Genetics of plant dispersal PART 3. THE ASSOCIATION OF DISPERSAL WITH OTHER LIFE HISTORY TRAITS 10: Ophélie Ronce and Jean Clobert: Dispersal syndromes 11: Eva Kisdi, Margarete Utz, and Mats Gyllenberg: Evolution of condition-dependent dispersal 12: Julien Cote and Jean Clobert: Dispersal syndromes in the common lizard: personality traits, information use and context-dependent dispersal decisions 13: Dries Bonte and Marjo Saastamoinen: Dispersal syndromes in butterflies and spiders 14: Rafael Rubio de Casas, Charles G. Willis, and Kathleen Donohue: Plant dispersal phenotypes: a seed perspective of maternal habitat selection PART 5. DISTRIBUTION OF DISPERSAL DISTANCES: DISPERSAL KERNELS 15: Ran Nathan, Etienne Klein, Juan J. Robledo-Arnuncio, and Eloy Revilla: Dispersal kernels: review 16: Thomas Hovestadt and Achim Poethke: Evolution and emergence of dispersal kernels - a brief theoretical evaluation 17: Luca Börger and John Fryxell: Quantifying individual differences in dispersal using net squared displacement 18: Nicolas Schtickzelle, Camille Turlure, and Michel Baguette: Temporal variation in dispersal kernels in a metapopulation of the bog fritillary butterfly (Boloria eunomia) 19: Frank M. Schurr: How random is dispersal? From stochasticity to process in the description of seed movement PART 5. DISPERSAL AND POPULATION SPATIAL DYNAMICS 20: Tim G. Benton & Diana E. Bowler: Linking dispersal to spatial dynamics 21: François Rousset: Demographic consequences of the selective forces controlling density-dependent dispersal 22: Virginie M. Stevens & Aurélie Coulon: Landscape effects on spatial dynamics: the natterjack toad as a case study 23: Ilkka Hanski: Dispersal and eco-evolutionary dynamics in the Glanville fritillary butterfly 24: Pierre-Olivier Cheptou and Antoine Dornier: Urban metapopulation dynamics and evolution of dispersal traits in the weed Crepis sancta PART 6. DISPERSAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE 25: Jean François Le Galliard, Manuel Massot, and Jean Clobert: Dispersal and range dynamics in changing climates: a review 26: Justin M.J. Travis and Calvin Dytham: Dispersal and climate change: a review of theory 27: Henrik Pärn and Bernt-Erik Sæther: Influence of temperature on dispersal in two bird species 28: Hans Van Dyck: Dispersal under global change - the case of the Pine processionary moth and other insects 29: James M. Bullock: Plant dispersal and the velocity of climate change PART 7. DISPERSAL AND HABITAT FRAGMENTATION 30: Michel Baguette, Delphine Legrand, Hélène Fréville, Hans Van Dyck and Simon Ducatez: Evolutionary ecology of dispersal in fragmented landscape 31: Calvin Dytham and Justin M. J. Travis: Modelling the effects of habitat fragmentation 32: Xavier Lambin, Diane Le Bouille, Matthew K. Oliver, Chris Sutherland, Edoardo Tedesco, and Alex Douglas: High connectivity despite high fragmentation: iterated dispersal in a vertebrate metapopulation 33: Hans Van Dyck and Michel Baguette: Dispersal and habitat fragmentation in invertebrates - examples from widespread and localized butterflies 34: Olivier Honnay and Hans Jacquemyn: Gene flow allows persistence of a perennial forest herb in a dynamic landscape CONCLUSION 35: Francesco d'Errico, William Banks, and Jean Clobert: Human dispersal: research tools, evidence, mechanisms Index

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This will be of interest to a broad readership, both as a reference text and as a source of stand?alone examples for biogeographers, ecologists, evolutionary biologists and geneticists alike, whether they be working on theory or generating empirical data Frontiers of Biogeography A thoughtful synthesis of a broad range of literature, incorporating both empirical and theoretical studies. Sara L. Goodacre, Frontiers of Biogeography.

Author Information

"Jean Clobert is Research Director at the CNRS and is currently heading the ""Station d'Ecologie Exéprimentale du CNRS à Moulis"". He is also director of the Infrastructure ANAEE-S grouping all experimental research stations of the CNRS and INRA in France. Having published more than 250 regular papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, he has been elected in the Academia Europaea in 2011. Michel Baguette is particularly interested by the role of dispersal in metapopulations and metacommunities. His objective is to seek how individual variability in dispersal moulds metapopulations and metacommunities and drives their dynamics and evolution, and what this means for biological diversity. His current research projects focus on (1) the genomic of dispersal phenotypic variation, and its consequences on metapopulation dynamics using artificial selection and experiments in mesocosms, and (2) the modelling of dispersal in fragmented landscapes. Tim Benton is a population ecologist with a particular interest in the mechanism by which environmental change impacts on population dynamics by affecting organisms' life histories. Much of his work has been conducted using a laboratory model organism, coupled with theoretical approaches. However, he has also applied his ideas to understanding biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. In addition to research, he has been head of department and Research Dean. He is currently working across the UK government, coordinating research on food and farming as ""Champion"" for the UK's Global Food Security programme. James Bullock is an applied ecologist. In his work he aims to use a fundamental understanding of the spatial ecology of populations and communities - especially of plants - to inform biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability. He has particular interests in ecosystem services, ecological restoration and climate change. James works at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, which is the UK's Centre of Excellence for integrated research in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, and atmospheric science."

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