Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups
Emanuel A. Fronhofer,
Delphine Legrand,
Florian Altermatt,
Armelle Ansart,
Simon Blanchet,
Dries Bonte,
Alexis Chaine,
Maxime Dahirel,
Frederik De Laender,
Jonathan De Raedt,
Lucie di Gesu,
Staffan Jacob,
Oliver Kaltz,
Estelle Laurent,
Chelsea J. Little,
Luc Madec,
Florent Manzi,
Stefano Masier,
Felix Pellerin,
Frank Pennekamp,
Nicolas Schtickzelle,
Lieven Therry,
Alexandre Vong,
Laurane Winandy,
Julien Cote
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Abstract
In a coordinated distributed dispersal experiment involving seven laboratories, the authors show that both top-down predation risk and bottom-up resource limitation increase emigration rates across 21 species ranging from protozoa to vertebrates.