Dispersal is one of the fundamental life-history strategies of organisms, so understanding
the selective forces shaping the dispersal traits is important. In the Wright's island model …

A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that at an expanding front, there can be
strong selection for greater dispersal propensity, whereas recent theory indicates that …

The evolution of dispersal rate is studied with a model of several local populations linked by
dispersal. Three dispersal strategies are considered where all, half or none of the offspring …

Numerous models have been designed to understand how dispersal ability evolves when
organisms live in a fragmented landscape. Most of them predict a single dispersal rate at …

Background Dispersal is a major factor in ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Although
empirical evidence shows that the tendency to disperse varies among individuals in many …

In this paper, we reanalyze simple models of the evolution of dispersal in a heterogeneous
landscape. Previous analyses concluded that without temporal variability, dispersal can …

The evolution of dispersal is investigated in a landscape of many patches with fluctuating
carrying capacities and spatial heterogeneity in temporal fluctuations. Although …

Empirical studies of dispersal indicate that decisions to immigrate are patch-type dependent;
yet theoretical models usually ignore this fact. Here, we investigate the evolution of patch …

Understanding the causes and consequences of range expansions or range shifts has a
long history in evolutionary biology. Recent theoretical, experimental, and empirical work …

In this paper, we predict the outcome of dispersal evolution in metapopulations based on the
following assumptions:(i) population dynamics within patches are density‐regulated by …