Consequences of dispersal for the quantitative study of adaptation in small-scale plots: a case study of an avian island population

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Authors: Lambrechts, Marcel M., Visser, M., Verboven, N.
• Other Authors: Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Netherlands Institute of Ecology - NIOO-KNAW (NETHERLANDS), Nederlands Instituut Voor Ecologie - NIOO (NETHERLANDS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2000
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology; Avian Island
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04262231; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2000.tb00170.x

Lifetime recruitment of breeding offspring estimated in small-scale study plots (i.e. local recruitment) is considered to be the best available ecological measure of contributions to following generations, and sufficient for the quantitative study of adaptation in natural populations. Recent investi...