Author(s): Gálvez Á; Peres-Neto PR; Castillo-Escrivà A; Bonilla F; Camacho A; García-Roger EM; Iepure S; Miralles J; Monrós JS; Olmo C; Picazo A; Rojo C; Rueda J; Sasa M; Segura M; Armengol X; Mesquita-Joanes F;

Prior research on metacommunities has largely focused on snapshot surveys, often overlooking temporal dynamics. In this study, our aim was to compare the insights obtained from metacommunity analyses based on a spatial approach repeated over time, with a spatio-temporal approach that consolidates ...

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Author(s): Richmond IC; Perron MC; Boyle SP; Pick FR;

Context: The successful dispersal of an animal depends, partly, on landscape connectivity. Urbanization poses risks to dispersal activities by increasing hostile land cover types. Objectives: We investigated how connectivity of urban ponds impacted Odonata communities (dragonflies and damselflies), an order of semi-aquatic insects that actively disperse. ...

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Author(s): Shaw AK; Lutscher F; Popovic L;

Our ability to understand population spread dynamics is complicated by rapid evolution, which renders simple ecological models insufficient. If dispersal ability evolves, more highly dispersive individuals may arrive at the population edge than less dispersive individuals (spatial sorting), accelerating spread. If individuals at the low-density population ...

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Author(s): Gálvez Á; Peres-Neto PR; Castillo-Escrivà A; Bonilla F; Camacho A; García-Roger EM; Iepure S; Miralles-Lorenzo J; Monrós JS; Olmo C; Picazo A; Rojo C; Rueda J; Sahuquillo M; Sasa M; Segura M; Armengol X; Mesquita-Joanes F;

The metacommunity concept provides a theoretical framework that aims at explaining organism distributions by a combination of environmental filtering, dispersal, and drift. However, few works have attempted a multitaxon approach and even fewer have compared two distant biogeographical regions usi ...

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Author(s): Wikberg EC; Gonzalez S; Rodriguez C; Sicotte P;

Cooperative home range defense is common in primates, despite a collective action problem that arises when group members benefit from winning the intergroup encounter regardless of whether they participate. The costs associated with this collective action problem may be mitigated by residing in small groups, residing with kin, or by forming strong bonds w ...

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Author(s): Mestre A; Barfield M; Peniston JH; Peres-Neto PR; Mesquita-Joanes F; Holt RD;

Emigration propensity (i.e., the tendency to leave undisturbed patches) is a key life-history trait of organisms in metapopulations with local extinctions and colonizations. Metapopulation models of dispersal evolution typically assume that patch disturbance kills all individuals within the patch, thus causing local extinction. However, individuals may in ...

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Author(s): Mestre A, Poulin R, Holt RD, Barfield M, Clamp JC, Fernandez-Leborans G, Mesquita-Joanes F

J Anim Ecol. 2019 12;88(12):1998-2010 Authors: Mestre A, Poulin R, Holt RD, Barfield M, Clamp JC, Fernandez-Leborans G, Mesquita-Joanes F

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Author(s): Clappe S, Dray S, Peres-Neto PR

Ecology. 2018 Aug;99(8):1737-1747 Authors: Clappe S, Dray S, Peres-Neto PR

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