Audrey Trochet

TL;DR: Good dispersal ability was consistently associated with high fecundity and survival, and in aerial dispersers it was associated with early maturation, highlighting the complex role of dispersal in the evolution of species life-history strategies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify traits that are predicted to co-vary with dispersal and investigate the correlations that may constrain dispersal using published information on butterflies, finding that dispersal directly correlated with demographic traits, mostly fecundity, whereas phylogenetic relationships among species had a negligible influence on this pattern, gene flow and individual movements are correlated with ecological specialisation and body size, respectively and routine movements only affected short-distance dispersal.

TL;DR: These findings marginally corroborated Greenwood's hypothesis by showing relationships between the direction of sex-biased dispersal, mating systems, and territoriality, and highlighted that the evolution of this bias was more linked to parental care and sexual dimorphism.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates that different elements of the dispersal process are correlated with different suites of life‐history traits, and showed that these syndromes allowed accurate predictions of dispersal, and improved the precision of the inferences made from wing size alone by up to five times.

TL;DR: This work compiled data on amphibian life history traits from literature in an extensive database with morphological and behavioral traits, habitat preferences and movement abilities for 86 European amphibian species (50 Anuran and 36 Urodela species).