Reposted by Guillermo Fandos
New paper 🐦
Multi-trait syndromes explain dispersal among close relatives, but simple traits (e.g. body mass) better predict across species.
A case for simpler, mechanistic ecology.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Big shout out to @gfandos.bsky.social 🎉
#Ecology #Evolution #Traits #Dispersal #Birds
doi.org
Simple mechanistic traits outperform complex syndromes in predicting avian dispersal distances - Communications Biology
An analysis using European continent-wide empirical data shows that single mechanistic traits predict avian dispersal better than complex syndromes. Body mass and life history dominate median dispersa...