A new synthesis of demography and dispersal

Principal Investigators:

Hal Caswell, and Michael G. Neubert

Our understanding of demography has improved tremendously over the past 50 years. So has our understanding of dispersal and its erects. However, our understanding of how demography and dispersal interact to determine spatiotemporal population dynamics is relatively poor. Recent theoretical advances provide tools that can bridge this gap, but because demographic and dispersal data are rarely presented together, they have yet to be applied. We propose to remedy this by forming a working group of empirical ecologists who have (or might obtain) both demographic and dispersal data and theoreticians interested in demography and dispersal. We will thus bring together and analyze combinations of data that otherwise would not be combined, and jump-start the process of unifying the theory of demography and dispersal. collapse

Participants and Meetings

Working Group Participants

Activity	Dates	Further Information
Working Group	17th—24th January 2001	Participant List
Working Group	1st—8th September 2001	Participant List
Working Group	9th—16th May 2002	Participant List

Participant Contact Information

James M. Bullock	jmbul@ceh.ac.uk	Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Furzebrook Research Station
Hal Caswell	hcaswell@whoi.edu	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
James S. Clark	jimclark@duke.edu	Duke University
Claudio DiBacco	cdibacco@whoi.edu	State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
Joseph Elkinton	elkinton@ent.umass.edu	University of Massachusetts
Gordon A. Fox	gfox@chuma1.cas.usf.edu	University of South Florida
Janneke Hille Ris Lambers	jhrl@u.washington.edu	Duke University
Carol C. Horvitz	carolhorvitz@miami.edu	University of Miami
Mark Kot	kot@amath.washington.edu	University of Washington
Rob Lensink	rlensink@novi.net	Unknown
Lisa A. Levin	llevin@ucsd.edu	University of California, San Diego
Mark A. Lewis	mlewis@math.ualberta.ca	University of Utah
Michael G. Neubert	mneubert@whoi.edu	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ingrid M. Parker	parker@biology.ucsc.edu	University of California, Santa Cruz
William J. Platt	btplat@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu	Louisiana State University
Katriona Shea		Pennsylvania State University
Mary C. Towner	mary.towner@okstate.edu	University of California, Santa Barbara
Frank van den Bosch	frank.vandenbosch@bbsrc.ac.uk	Wageningen Agricultural University
Brian Beckage	brian.beckage@uvm.edu
Susan Kalisz	kalisz@pitt.edu

Products: Publications, Reports, Datasets, Presentations, Visualizations

Type	Products of NCEAS Research
Journal Article	Bullock, James M.; Pywell, Richard F.; Coulson-Phillips, Sarah J. 2008. Managing plant population spread: Prediction and analysis using a simple model. Ecological Applications. Vol: 18(4). Pages 945–953.
Journal Article	Caswell, Hal; Lensink, Rob; Neubert, Michael G. 2003. Demography and dispersal: Life table response experiments for invasion speed. Ecology. Vol: 84. Pages 1968-1978.
Journal Article	Horvitz, Carol C.; Koop, A. L.; Erickson, Kelley. 2015. Time-invariant and stochastic disperser-structured matrix models: Invasion rates of fleshy-fruited exotic shrub. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B. Vol: 20(6). Pages 1639-1662. (Online version)
Journal Article	Le Corff, Josiane; Horvitz, Carol C. 2005. Population growth versus population spread of an ant-dispersed neotropical herb with a mixed reproductive strategy. Ecological Modelling. Vol: 188(1). Pages 41-51.