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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jønsson, Knud Andreas
• Tøttrup, Anders P.
• Borregaard, Michael Krabbe
• Keith, Sally A.
• Rahbek, Carsten
• Thorup, Kasper

Titel

Tracking Animal Dispersal: From Individual Movement to Community Assembly and Global Range Dynamics

Ist Teil von

• Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam), 2016-03, Vol.31 (3), p.204-214

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Dispersal is one of the key processes in shaping distributional ranges and community assemblages, but we know little about animal dispersal at the individual, population, or community levels, or about how dispersal correlates with the establishment and colonization of new areas. This is largely due to difficulties in studying individual movements at the relevant spatiotemporal scale, leading to a gap between the direct study of dispersal and our understanding of the build-up of larger-scale biodiversity. Recent advances in tracking technology make it possible to bridge this gap. We propose a way to link movement, dispersal, ecology, and biogeography. In particular, we offer a framework to scale-up from processes at the individual level to global patterns of biodiversity. New tracking technologies allow direct assessments of dispersal. New tracking methodologies allow direct assessments of diversity build-up.