Dispersal costs can be classified into energetic, time, risk and opportunity costs and may be
levied directly or deferred during departure, transfer and settlement. They may equally be …

… We recommend using proteose peptone medium for axenic cultures (eg Schtickzelle et al.
2009; Pennekamp et al. 2014bb) and using protozoa pellet medium otherwise (eg Petchey et …

Salmonids are an important component of biodiversity, culture and economy in several
regions, particularly the North Pacific Rim. Given this importance, they have been intensively …

… (N. Schtickzelle et al., unpublished manuscript). Altogether these results bear out the
hypothesis that dispersal in fragmented landscapes is accomplished through special dispersal …

… squared displacement after n moves (square of the distance between position after n moves
and starting point: inline image ) according to the total distance travelled in these n moves (…

… Each within-year stage is called a phase and the change in the population size (n) after a
year is … The daily number of eggs laid by an average female (N eggs ) according to the best …

… unimodal relationships between the response variable (soil N 2 O flux and ciliate traits) and
the two respective, interacting drivers (C and N addition for soil N 2 O flux study, while using …

… of the distance between position after n moves and starting point: R 2 n ; [51, 58]). The more
linear the path, the steeper is the increase of R 2 n with n. Using a bootstrap procedure [59] …

… This simple modelling procedure is efficiently improved by incorporating habitat-specific
movement parameters and some sort of discontinuity due to boundary effects Schtickzelle and …

… , detecting inbreeding effects in population sizes of several hundreds to several thousands
of individuals may suggest that Nes were only a tiny fraction of census population sizes (N) in …