Prospecting and informed dispersal: Understanding and predicting their joint eco-evolutionary dynamics.

ABSTRACT: The ability of individuals to leave a current breeding area and select a future one is important, because such decisions can have multiple consequences for individual fitness, but also for metapopulation dynamics, structure, and long-term persistence through non-random dispersal patterns. In the wild, many colonial and territorial animal species display informed dispersal strategies, where individuals use information, such as conspecific breeding success gathered during prospecting, to decide whether and where to disperse. Understanding informed dispersal strategies is essential for relating individual behavior to subsequent movements and then determining how emigration and settlement decisions affect individual fitness and demography. Although numerous theoretical studies have explored th

SUBMITTER: Ponchon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571608 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature