@Article{Cote2022,
  author      = {Julien Cote and Maxime Dahirel and Nicolas Schtickzelle and Florian Altermatt and Armelle Ansart and Simon Blanchet and Alexis Chaine and Frederik {De Laender} and Jonathan {De Raedt} and Bart Haegeman and Staffan Jacob and Oliver Kaltz and Estelle Laurent and Chelsea J. Little and Luc Madec and Florent Manzi and Stefano Masier and Felix Pellerin and Frank Pennekamp and Lieven Therry and Alexandre Vong and Laurane Winandy and Dries Bonte and Emanuel A. Fronhofer and Delphine Legrand},
  journal     = {Ecol. Lett.},
  title       = {Dispersal syndromes in challenging environments: a cross-species experiment},
  year        = {2022},
  number      = {12},
  pages       = {2675--2687},
  volume      = {25},
  abstract    = {Dispersal is a central biological process tightly integrated into life-histories, morphology, physiology and behaviour. Such associations, or syndromes, are anticipated to impact the eco-evolutionary dynamics of spatially structured populations, and cascade into ecosystem processes. As for dispersal on its own, these syndromes are likely neither fixed nor random, but conditional on the experienced environment. We experimentally studied how dispersal propensity varies with individuals' phenotype and local environmental harshness using 15 species ranging from protists to vertebrates. We reveal a general phenotypic dispersal syndrome across studied species, with dispersers being larger, more active and having a marked locomotion-oriented morphology and a strengthening of the link between dispersal and some phenotypic traits with environmental harshness. Our proof-of-concept metacommunity model further reveals cascading effects of context-dependent syndromes on the local and regional organisation of functional diversity. Our study opens new avenues to advance our understanding of the functioning of spatially structured populations, communities and ecosystems.},
  doi         = {10.1111/ele.14124},
  hal_id      = {hal-03819037},
  isem_pub_no = {ISEM-2022-227},
}