Journal article
Fitness consequences of dispersal: is leaving home the best of a bad lot?
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Using 20 years of demographic and genetic data from four populations of banner-tailed kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spectabilis), we asked whether dispersing individuals gain benefits during adulthood that might compensate for the substantial survival costs they experience as juveniles. Compared to philopatric animals, within- and between-population dispersers gained no measureable advantages in adult survival, fecundity, or probability of recruiting offspring to adulthood. Restricting analyses to...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Ecology
- Volume:
- 94
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1287-1295
- Publication date:
- 2013-06-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0012-9658
- Source identifiers:
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386622
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:386622
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- pubs:386622
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- 2013
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