The well-known trend of good dispersers losing their dispersal ability subsequent to colonizing islands also may lead to speciation events, another example where somewhat reduced dispersal ability positively correlates with diversification across archipelagos.
This represents areas that would be accessible to the species for establishment based on their natural dispersal ability.
In particular, more evolutionarily labile life-history characteristics related to species dispersal ability appear especially important to explain upslope colonization.
The results are discussed in relation to crop management, pest dispersal ability and landscape structure.
The improvements were largest for eucalypts, which have poor dispersal ability and clustered distributions.
Habitat affinity and dispersal ability were retained as important traits explaining similarity between arthropod assemblages.
In contrast, bumblebees benefitted only from small-scale agriculture, which matches with their high dispersal ability.
Land-use preference, soil preference and dispersal ability were largely independent components of species characteristics.
The species traits we focused on were dispersal ability, competitiveness, reproductive investment and survival rate.
The value of orchard incorporation was strongly related with the dispersal ability of threatened species.
Claramunt, S., Derryberry, E. P., Remsen, J. V. Jr & Brumfield, R. T. High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds.
