Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups
(2018) Nature Ecology & Evolution — Vol. 2, n° 12, p. 1859-1863 (2018)
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Fronhofer, Emanuel A. 
Altermatt, Florian
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- Ecology and evolution unfold in spatially structured communities, where dispersal links dynamics across scales. Because dispersal is multicausal, identifying general drivers remains challenging. In a coordinated distributed experiment spanning organisms from protozoa to vertebrates, we tested whether two fundamental determinants of local dynamics, top-down and bottom-up control, generally explain active dispersal. We show that both factors consistently increased emigration rates and use metacommunity modelling to highlight consequences on local and regional dynamics.
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Fronhofer, E. A., Legrand, D., Altermatt, F., Ansart, A., Blanchet, S., Bonte, D., Chaine, A., Dahirel, M., De Laender, F., De Raedt, J., di Gesu, L., Jacob, S., Kaltz, O., Laurent, E., Little, C. J., Madec, L., Manzi, F., Masier, S., Pellerin, F., et al. (2018). Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(12), 1859-1863. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0686-0 (Original work published 2018)