Dispersal processes driving plant movement: challenges for understanding and predicting range shifts in a changing world

摘要: Summary Dispersal ecology is a broad topical discipline that tackles important conceptual and applied issues, such as the study of ability plants to transmit their propagules across fragmented managed landscapes. The relevance dispersal for plant populations threefold because: (i) processes scale from genes individuals disperse (or produce be dispersed) population dynamics both local regional distribution patterns; (ii) by dispersing or they carry, inherently links demographic genetic landscape; (iii) elicits key ecological evolutionary sustain biodiversity, species assembly in species-rich communities. The steady improvement tracking devices molecular tools trace movement infer provenance organisms pressing need address conservation issues have expanded disciplinary boundaries ecology. The discussion on main advances challenges was motivation organization thematic topic session entitled Dispersal driving movement: understanding predicting range shifts changing world at Annual Meeting British Ecological Society (2015, Edinburgh). This brought together researchers with different types expertise interests contributions are now included this special feature few additional articles. Synthesis. Overall, illustrates spans research topics integrating eight cover aspects discipline: methodological outcomes.