Dispersal

• Preface ; Introduction ; PART 1 - MEASURES OF DISPERSAL: GENETIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC APPROACHES ; 1. Methods for estimating dispersal probabilities and related parameters using marked animals ; 2. Genetic approaches to the estimation of dispersal rates ; 3. How to measure dispersal: The genetic approach. The example of fire ants ; 4. Dispersal in Pikas (Ochotona princeps): Combining genetic and demographic approaches to reveal spatial and temporal patterns ; 5. Mathematics, genetics, and demography: How to combine them? ; 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 ; 7. The landscape context of dispersal ; 8. Dispersal, intraspecific competition, kin competition, and kin facilitation: A review of the empirical evidence ; 9. Inbreeding, kinship, and the evolution of natal dispersal ; 10. Inbreeding versus outbreeding in captive and wild populations of naked mole-rats ; 11. Multiple causes of the evolution of dispersal ; 12. Parasitism and predation as causes of dispersal ; 12a Dispersal and parasitism ; 12b The effects of predation on dispersal ; 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 ; 14. Condition-dependent dispersal ; 15. Proximate mechanisms of natal dispersal: The role of body condition and hormones ; 16. Habitat selection by dispersers: Integrating proximate and ultimate approaches ; 17. Public information and breeding habitat selection ; PART 4 - DISPERSAL FROM THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE ECOSYSTEM LEVEL: INDIVIDUALS, POPULATIONS, SPECIES, AND COMMUNITIES ; 18. Dispersal, individual phenotype, and phenotypic plasticity ; 19. Dispersal and the genetic properties of metapopulations ; 20. Population dynamic consequences of dispersal in local populations and in metapopulations ; 21. Dispersal in antagonistic interactions ; 22. The properties of competitive communities with coupled local and regional dynamics ; PART 5 - PERSPECTIVES ; 23. The evolutionary consequences of gene flow and local adaptation: Future approaches ; 24. Perspectives on the study of dispersal evolution ; 25. Dispersal in theory and practice: Consequences for conservation biology ; References ; Index

The editors are to be congratulated on an extremely well edited book