Melanie Gibbs1, Marjo Saastamoinen2, Aurélie Coulon3 and Virginie M. Stevens3,4,*
-Author Affiliations
1Biodiversity Research Centre, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 4-5, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2Institute of Biology, Section of Evolutionary Biology, IBL, Leiden University,Sylviusweg 72, 2333 Leiden, The Netherlands
3Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7179, 1 Avenue du petit Château, 91800 Brunoy, France
4Behavioural Biology Unit, University of Liège, 22 Quai van beneden, iu 4020 Liège, Belgium
*Author for correspondence (stevens@mnhn.fr).
Abstract
The symposium and workshop ‘Organisms on the move: ecology and evolution of dispersal’, held in Ghent (Belgium), 14–18 September 2009, brought together a wide range of researchers using empirical and modelling approaches to examine the dispersal process. This meeting provided an opportunity to assess how much cross-fertilization there has been between empiricists and theoreticians, to present novel insights on dispersal patterns in plants, animals and micro-organisms and to measure the progress made in examining the causes and consequences of dispersal.
dispersal condition dependent costs information movement ecology
Footnotes
Received October 8, 2009.
Accepted October 16, 2009.
© 2009 The Royal Society
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