How Important Is Informed Natal Dispersal for Modelling the Demographic and Genetic Effects of Environmental Variability?

ABSTRACT: Dispersal is a fundamental ecological process that influences population dynamics and genetic diversity and is therefore an important component of the models used to simulate population responses to environmental change. We considered informed dispersal in relation to settlement location, where individuals could optimise selection of settlement location with regard to per capita resource availability and investigated the importance of this type of informed dispersal for simulated demography and genetic diversity under different biological and environmental scenarios. We used an individual-based simulation model scaled with reference to the ecology of small mammals in fire prone savanna ecosystems. We simulated demographic and genetic processes under informed and uninformed dispersal across

SUBMITTER: Banks SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11650744 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature