The challenges of studying dispersal

By Ran Nathan. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Quantifying and disentangling dispersal in metacommunities: how close have we come? How far is there to go? (2010, background): “1999) over multiple temporal and spatial scales (Nathan 2001).”
Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind (2002, background): “The survival of seeds travelling long distances is poorly quantified, because LDD events are rare and difficult to track; quantifying this survival probability is a major current challeng”
Habitat fragmentation reduces grassland connectivity for both short‐distance and long‐distance wind‐dispersed forbs (2005, background): “Because this requires seed dispersal kernels to include long-distance dispersal and such kernels are difficult to measure (Cain et al. 2000; Nathan 2001; Nathan et al. 2003), use of mechanistic simulation models that can simulate long-distance dispersal is currently the best option available.”
LINKING DISPERSAL TO LOCAL POPULATION DYNAMICS: A CASE STUDY USING A HEADWATER SALAMANDER SYSTEM (2003, background): “This interest has generated a large body of theory in need of direct, empirical evaluation (Ferriere et al. 2000, Clobert et al. 2001, Nathan 2001), both to test the generality of Manuscript received 10 June 2002; revised 21 November 2002; accepted 25 November 2002.”
Determining the Spatial Scale of Species' Response to Habitat (2004, background): “It is possible that habitat variables are important at more than one scale for different reasons (Kotliar and Wiens 1990,Jonsen and Taylor 2000, Nathan 2001).”
Seed dispersal of the non-native invasive tree Ailanthus altissima into contrasting environments (2007, background): “Physical factors include local topography, the intensity and direction of dispersal events, landscape structure, and the structure of the environment within which dispersal occurs (Sharpe and Fields 1982; Nathan 2001; With 2002).”
The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective (2003, background): “It has all the same properties of WINDISPER apart from accounting for variable vertical wind profile yet is also analytically tractable (Portnoy & Willson 1993, Tufto et al. 1997, Turchin 1998).”
Causes and consequences of animal dispersal strategies: relating individual behaviour to spatial dynamics (2005, background): “As the impact of dispersal on population dynamics is being increasingly recognised, the causes and consequences of dispersal have become a focus of much current research (see reviews by Dieckmann, O’Hara & Weisser, 1999; Ferriere et al., 2000; Nathan, 2001).”
A simple mechanistic model of seed dispersal, predation and plant establishment: Janzen‐Connell and beyond (2004, background): “…that the major processes determining recruitment patterns operate at local scales; therefore, difficulties in estimating dispersal and establishment at large scales (Cain et al. 2000; Nathan 2001; Nathan et al. 2002, 2003) are not expected to impair the quantification of the above parameters.”
THE GEOGRAPHY OF MARINE LARVAL DISPERSAL: COUPLING GENETICS WITH FINE-SCALE PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (2003, background): “Unfortunately, efforts to understand the population dynamics of such species have been stymied by the fact that the larvae recruiting to a location have little chance of originating from that site (Levin 1990, Nathan 2001).”
Habitat quality, conspecific density, and habitat pre-use affect the dispersal behaviour of two earthworm species, Aporrectodea icterica and Dendrobaena veneta, in a mesocosm experiment (2010, background): “They have been described for a large body of organisms, especially the easily sampled ones such as plants, birds, insects and fishes (Nathan, 2001).”
Long distance dispersal and landscape occupancy in a metapopulation of the cranberry fritillary butterfly (2003, background): “Tracking long distance dispersal movements is a current challenge in evolutionary biology and ecology (Nathan 2001).”
Methods for estimating long-distance dispersal (2003, methodology): “…is almost universally regular: at one end of the distribution there is an abundance of relatively short dispersal distances, whereas at the other end there is a scarcity of relatively long-distance dispersal (LDD) events (Harper 1977, Dingle 1996, Kot et al. 1996, Cain et al. 2000, Nathan 2001b).”