Models that have attempted to predict differences in life-history according to dispersal have mostly focussed on either metapopulations with frequent extinctions or expansion fronts, where dispersers can colonize empty habitat patches. In this context, dispersers invest more in reproduction at the expense of survival (e.g. Cotto et al. 2014). However, I do not know of any model of life-history dispersal syndrome in balanced dispersal situations, such as predicted under an ideal free distribution at equilibrium. I would expect a difference in life-history response to habitat variables (see Buoro & Carlson 2014) rather than fixed differences according to dispersal.
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Hi Charlotte,
There are at least three important papers (highly cited) that have in consideration concerns as the one you expressed.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julien_Cote/publication/23949872_Informed_dispersal_heterogeneity_in_animal_dispersal_syndromes_and_the_dynamics_of_spatially_structured_populations_Ecol_Lett_12_197-209/links/09e4150aa78ad42f96000000.pdf
http://amath.kaist.ac.kr/MAS470/002.pdf
http://www.reed.edu/biology/courses/bio342/2010_syllabus/2010_readings/sih_2004.pdf
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Hi Charlotte,
Indeed, you have pointed out a critical gap in the litterature. To my knowledge, such theoretical models do not exist. Several models as the model proposed by McPeek & Holt (1992) have examined how spatio-temporal variation in habitat quality may affect dispersal rates and shape dispersal polymorphism. As you said, other models have attempted to predict the covariation between dispersal ability/propensity and life history syndromes. Yet, to date no models have examined how spatio-temporal environmental variation may shape dispersal syndromes (with a special focus on the covariation patterns between dispersal and life history traits).
McPeek, M. A., & Holt, R. D. (1992). The evolution of dispersal in spatially and temporally varying environments. American Naturalist, 1010-1027.
If it can help, we have recenlty published two empirical papers in which we examine how the degree of habitat unpredictability experienced by "metapopulations" may lead to the emergence of a colonizer syndrome (high dispersal associated with an accelerated pace of life).
Cayuela, H., Arsovski, D., Thirion, J. M., Bonnaire, E., Pichenot, J., Boitaud, S., Joly, P., & Besnard, A. (2016). Contrasting patterns of environmental fluctuation contribute to divergent life histories among amphibian populations. Ecology, 97, 980-991.
Cayuela, H., Boualit, L., Arsovski, D., Bonnaire, E., Pichenot, J., Bellec, A., Joly, P., & Besnard, A. (2016). Does habitat unpredictability promote the evolution of a colonizer syndrome in amphibian metapopulations?. Ecology, 97, 2658-2670.
Cheers
Hugo
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