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The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants

Dispersal plays a key role in natural systems by shaping spatial population and evolutionary dynamics. Dispersal has been largely treated as a population process with little attention to individual decisions and the influence of information use on the fitness benefits of dispersal despite clear empi...

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Autores principales: Chaine, Alexis S., Legendre, Stéphane, Clobert, Jean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23638381
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.44
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author Chaine, Alexis S.
Legendre, Stéphane
Clobert, Jean
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description Dispersal plays a key role in natural systems by shaping spatial population and evolutionary dynamics. Dispersal has been largely treated as a population process with little attention to individual decisions and the influence of information use on the fitness benefits of dispersal despite clear empirical evidence that dispersal behavior varies among individuals. While information on local density is common, more controversial is the notion that indirect information use can easily evolve. We used an individual-based model to ask under what conditions indirect information use in dispersal will evolve. We modeled indirect information provided by immigrant arrival into a population which should be linked to overall metapopulation density. We also modeled direct information use of density which directly impacts fitness. We show that immigrant-dependent dispersal evolves and does so even when density dependent information is available. Use of two sources of information also provides benefits at the metapopulation level by reducing extinction risk and prolonging the persistence of populations. Our results suggest that use of indirect information in dispersal can evolve under conservative conditions and thus could be widespread.
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spelling pubmed-36289852013-05-01 The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants Chaine, Alexis S. Legendre, Stéphane Clobert, Jean Peerj Ecology Dispersal plays a key role in natural systems by shaping spatial population and evolutionary dynamics. Dispersal has been largely treated as a population process with little attention to individual decisions and the influence of information use on the fitness benefits of dispersal despite clear empirical evidence that dispersal behavior varies among individuals. While information on local density is common, more controversial is the notion that indirect information use can easily evolve. We used an individual-based model to ask under what conditions indirect information use in dispersal will evolve. We modeled indirect information provided by immigrant arrival into a population which should be linked to overall metapopulation density. We also modeled direct information use of density which directly impacts fitness. We show that immigrant-dependent dispersal evolves and does so even when density dependent information is available. Use of two sources of information also provides benefits at the metapopulation level by reducing extinction risk and prolonging the persistence of populations. Our results suggest that use of indirect information in dispersal can evolve under conservative conditions and thus could be widespread. PeerJ Inc. 2013-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3628985/ /pubmed/23638381 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.44 Text en © 2013 Chaine et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chaine, Alexis S.
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Clobert, Jean
The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants
title The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants
title_full The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants
title_fullStr The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants
title_full_unstemmed The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants
title_short The co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants
title_sort co-evolution of multiply-informed dispersal: information transfer across landscapes from neighbors and immigrants
topic Ecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23638381
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.44
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