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Condition and phenotype-dependent dispersal in a damselfly, Calopteryx splendens.
PloS one - 18 May 2010
Chaput-Bardy Audrey, Grégoire Arnaud, Baguette Michel, Pagano Alain, Secondi Jean
Abstract excerpt
Individual dispersal decisions may be affected by the internal state of the individual and the external information of its current environment. Here we estimated the influence of dispersal on survival and investigated if individual phenotype (sex and wing length) and environmental condition (conspecific density and sex-ratio) affected dispersal decisions in the banded damselfly, Calopteryx splendens. As suspected...
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