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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 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.

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Author:   Jean Clobert (, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) ,  Etienne Danchin (, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) ,  Andre A. Dhondt (, Cornell University, Ithaca) ,  James D. Nichols (, Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre, Maryland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.695kg
ISBN:  

9780198506591

ISBN 10:   0198506597
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   22 February 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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