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Density dependent dispersal decisions and the Allee effect
Mike Fowler 
Oikos, Volume: 118, Issue: 4
Swansea University Author:
Mike Fowler
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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17321.x
Abstract
The decision to move between patches in the environment is among the most important life history choices an organism can make. I derive a new density dependent dispersal rule, and examine how dispersal decisions based on avoiding fitness loss associated with an Allee effect or competitive effects im...
| Published in: | Oikos |
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| ISSN: | 0030-1299 1600-0706 |
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2009
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14879 |
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The decision to move between patches in the environment is among the most important life history choices an organism can make. I derive a new density dependent dispersal rule, and examine how dispersal decisions based on avoiding fitness loss associated with an Allee effect or competitive effects impact upon population dynamics in spatially structured populations with qualitatively different dynamics. I also investigate the effects of the number of patches in the system and a limit to the patch sampling time available to dispersers. Dispersing to avoid competitive pressures can destabilise otherwise stable population dynamics, and stabilise chaotic dynamics. Dispersing to avoid an Allee effect does not qualitatively change local population dynamics until eventually driving unstable populations to global extinction with a sufficiently high fitness threshold. A time limit for sampling can stabilise dynamics if dispersal is based on escaping the Allee effect, and rescue populations from global extinction. The results are sensitive to the number of patches available in the environment and suggest that dispersal to avoid an Allee effect will only arise under biologically plausible conditions, i.e. where there is a limit to the number of dispersal attempts that can be made between generations. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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4 |
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614 |