Dispersal

• 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: Ferriere 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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