Dispersal polymorphism and the speed of biological invasions.
PLoS ONE, 2012 The speed at which biological range expansions occur has important consequences for the conservation management of species experiencing climate change and for invasion by exotic organisms.
Elizabeth C Elliott, Stephen J Cornell
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Zoochorous dispersal of freshwater bivalves: an overlooked vector in biological invasions? [PDF]
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2017 Vectors that underpin the natural dispersal of invasive alien species are frequently unknown. In particular, the passive dispersal (zoochory) of one organism (or propagule) by another, usually more mobile animal, remains poorly understood.
Coughlan Neil E. +4 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Metacommunity ecology highlights the importance of integrating simultaneously environmental filtering and spatial processes, such as mass effects and dispersal limitation, into investigation of community assembly.
Zhengfei Li +8 more
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Effects of mis-alignment between dispersal traits and landscape structure on dispersal success in fragmented landscapes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Dispersal is fundamental to population dynamics and hence extinction risk. The dispersal success of animals depends on the biophysical structure of their environments and their biological traits; however, comparatively little is known about how ...
Justine L. Atkins +2 more
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Does scale matter? A systematic review of incorporating biological realism when predicting changes in species distributions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 There is ample evidence that biotic factors, such as biotic interactions and dispersal capacity, can affect species distributions and influence species' responses to climate change. However, little is known about how these factors affect predictions from
Sydne Record +6 more
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A new method for modelling biological invasions from early spread data accounting for anthropogenic dispersal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Biological invasions are one of the major causes of biodiversity loss worldwide. In spite of human aided (anthropogenic) dispersal being the key element in the spread of invasive species, no framework published so far accounts for its peculiar ...
Luca Butikofer +4 more
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The initial dispersal and spread of an intentional invader at three spatial scales. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The way an invasion progresses through space is a theme of interest common to invasion ecology and biological pest control. Models and mark-release studies of arthropods have been used extensively to extend and inform invasion processes of establishment ...
Nadiah P Kristensen +2 more
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Biological advection and cross-diffusion with parameter regimes
AIMS Mathematics, 2019 Advection and cross-diffusion terms are obtained as dispersal strategies of biological species. The focus of the paper is their connection to a given population dynamics.
Jaywan Chung +3 more
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Environmental heterogeneity blurs the signature of dispersal syndromes on spatial patterns of woody species in a moist tropical forest. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 We assessed the relative importance of dispersal limitation, environmental heterogeneity and their joint effects as determinants of the spatial patterns of 229 species in the moist tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island (Panama). We differentiated five
Pablo Ramón +3 more
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Rethinking Biological Invasions as a Metacommunity Problem
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Perhaps more than any other ecological discipline, invasion biology has married the practices of basic science and the application of that science. The conceptual frameworks of population regulation, metapopulations, supply-side ecology, and community ...
Bryan L. Brown, Jacob N. Barney
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