Dispersal Ecology and Evolution

- The first comprehensive overview of the field for more than 10 years, covering the hottest topics in the study of dispersal

- Provides a complete and integrated view of all aspects of the dispersal process as well as its consequences for fundamental and applied evolutionary ecology

- Integrates plants and animals (vertebrates and invertebrates) into a common framework for understanding the evolution and consequences of dispersal processes

- Includes contributions from some of the leading researchers in the field

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to understanding how populations may persist.

Dispersal Ecology and Evolution provides a timely and wide-ranging overview of the fast expanding field of dispersal ecology, incorporating the very latest research. The causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal at the individual, population, species, and community levels are considered. Perspectives and insights are offered from the fields of evolution, behavioural ecology, conservation biology, and genetics. Throughout the book theoretical approaches are combined with empirical data, and care has been taken to include examples from as wide a range of species as possible - both plant and animal.

Edited by Jean Clobert, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS a Moulis, France, Michel Baguette, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, Tim G. Benton, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK, and James M. Bullock, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK

Jean Clobert is Research Director at the CNRS and is currently heading the "Station d'Ecologie Exépriment...

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