The hypothesis that patterns of sex-biased dispersal are related to social mating system in
mammals and birds has gained widespread acceptance over the past 30 years. However, two …

1. Organisms can respond to changing climatic conditions in multiple ways including
changes in phenology, body size or morphology, and range shifts. Understanding how …

Intraspecific variability in mating systems has been documented previously, but there are
few studies where investigators have used intraspecific comparisons to investigate the …

Natal dispersal, the movement of an organism from its birthplace to the site of first
reproduction, is fundamental to many ecological and evolutionary processes. Mechanistically, …

For organisms with complex life cycles, climate change can have both direct effects and
indirect effects that are mediated through plastic responses to temperature and that carry over …

During natal dispersal, young animals leave their natal area and search for a new area to
live. In species in which individuals inhabit different types of habitat, experience with a natal …

Recent discoveries of single-gene influences on social behaviour have generated a great
deal of interest in the proximate mechanisms underlying the expression of complex behaviours…

Corridors are predicted to benefit populations in patchy habitats bypromoting movement,
which should increase population densities, gene flow, andrecolonization of extinct patch …

Natal dispersal occurs when young animals leave the area where they were born and reared
and search the surrounding landscape for a new place to settle. Despite the importance of …

Gardner and colleagues [1] recently reviewed the evidence for shifts in body size as a third
major response to climate change, in addition to widely recognized shifts in the ranges and …