articleAnnual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAug 3, 2007Closed access

How Does It Feel to Be Like a Rolling Stone? Ten Questions About Dispersal Evolution

OROphélie Ronce

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Université de Montpellier · +1 more institution

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Abstract

This review proposes ten tentative answers to frequently asked questions about dispersal evolution. I examine methodological issues, model assumptions and predictions, and their relation to empirical data. Study of dispersal evolution points to the many ecological and genetic feedbacks affecting the evolution of this complex trait, which has contributed to our better understanding of life-history evolution in spatially structured populations. Several lines of research are suggested to ameliorate the exchanges between theoretical and empirical studies of dispersal evolution.

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  • Biological dispersal
  • Trait
  • Relation (database)
  • Ecology
  • Epistemology
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Sociology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Life in Land
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