Evolving Dispersal: Where to Go Next? Habitat destruction and
global climate change are two major threats to the persistence
of ecosystems. The probability that a species survives such
changes depends on its ability to track environmental shifts,
either by moving between patches of habitat or by rapidly
adapting to local conditions. This explains why the evolution of
dispersal has become an integrative topic of paramount
importance in evolutionary and behavioral ecology, as
demonstrated by a recent conference*. A wide panel of
researchers, who highlighted the recent major advances and the
most promising lines of future research, were present at this
meeting. Ferriere, Regis; Belthoff, James R.; Olivieri,
Isabelle; and Krackow, Sven. (2000). "Evolving Dispersal: Where
to Go Next?". Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 15(1), 5-7.
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