Habitat fragmentation impacts mobility in a common and widespread woodland butterfly: do sexes respond differently?
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Ecology
- Vol. 12 (1), 5
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-5
Abstract
Theory predicts a nonlinear response of dispersal evolution to habitat fragmentation. First, dispersal will be favoured in line with both decreasing area of habitat patches and increasing inter-patch distances. Next, once these inter-patch distances exceed a critical threshold, dispersal will be counter-selected, unless essential resources no longer co-occur in compact patches but are differently scattered; colonization of empty habitat patches or rescue of declining populations are then increasingly overruled by dispersal costs like mortality risks and loss of time and energy. However, to date, most empirical studies mainly document an increase of dispersal associated with habitat fragmentation. We analyzed dispersal kernels for males and females of the common, widespread woodland butterfly Pararge aegeria in highly fragmented landscape, and for males in landscapes that differed in their degree of habitat fragmentation.Keywords
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