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Microscopic, Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Descriptions of Dispersal

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Dispersal and movement are important processes that affects the distribution and abundance of organisms. To a greater or lesser extent all organisms disperse probably as a response to temporal heterogeneity or deteriorating local conditions, and this process is superposed to the movements that organisms need to carry out to perform their basic functions. The ecologically mensurable magnitude in these cases is often the overall number of organisms located within a given length, area or volume, which varies in time and space.

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Méndez, V., Campos, D., Bartumeus, F. (2014). Microscopic, Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Descriptions of Dispersal. In: Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39010-4_3

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