Journal
ECOGRAPHY
Volume 2022, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.06190
Keywords
breeding success; colonization; individual-based model; information use; invasion rates; spread rate
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- European Union [753420]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [753420] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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This study examines the impact of personal and public information on range expansion dynamics by extending an individual-based model. The results indicate that informed emigration leads to slower range expansions, except when individuals prospect a high number of patches or when their perceptual range is high. These findings highlight the need for further empirical and modeling studies to improve our understanding and predictive capability of species exhibiting this informed dispersal strategy.
Rapid progress is being made in understanding how dispersal strategies influence the spread of species whose ranges are expanding. However, potentially vital dispersal behaviours have so far been neglected. Social species have been demonstrated to use their own breeding performance (personal information) and the breeding performance of their conspecifics (public information) to inform both their emigration and settlement decisions. Here, to provide insight into how these behaviours may impact range expansion dynamics, we extend a recently-developed individual-based model that incorporates the use of personal and public information in emigration decisions and a prospecting phase informing settlement decisions. We find that compared to non-informed emigration, informed emigration results in slower range expansions, except when individuals prospect a high number of patches or when their perceptual range is high. Spread rate and also the extent of the front strongly depend upon the willingness of individuals to settle in an empty patch. Given the likely prevalence of prospecting and informed dispersal across a wide range of taxa, these results indicate an urgent need for further empirical and modelling studies to improve our understanding and predictive capability of how species exhibiting this informed dispersal strategy will respond to environmental changes.
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