Erik Matthysen

TL;DR: The model is shown to be a flexible tool to model functional connectivity in the study of the relation between landscape and mobility of organisms as well as in scenario building and evaluation in wild life protection projects and applied land management projects.

TL;DR: The consequences of the presence and magnitude of different costs during different phases of the dispersal process, and their internal organisation through covariation with other life‐history traits are synthesised with respect to potential consequences for species conservation and the need for development of a new generation of spatial simulation models.

TL;DR: Both correlational and experimental studies support the existence of positive, rather than negative, density-dependent dispersal in birds and mammals.

TL;DR: It is shown that the phenological response to large–scale changes in spring temperature varies across a species' range, even between populations situated close to each other, and that this variation cannot be fully explained by variation in the temperature change during the pre– and post–laying periods, as recently suggested.

TL;DR: It is argued that the current lack of a theoretical framework that predicts if and when relationships with developmental stability can be expected, urges for further theoretical and empirical research, such as on the genetic architecture of developmental stability in stressed populations.