Evolution of interspecific variation in marine larval dispersal kernels: The role of larval navigation ability

Dispersal is an integral part of the life cycle of most organisms, with consequences for individual fitness, population genetic structure, species ranges, community assembly, and conservation. Dispersal patterns, and the traits underlying them, have the potential to evolve in response to selection and other evolutionary forces. Here, we investigate two opposing components of selection by quantifying their corresponding costs in a spatially-autocorrelated, patchy environment. Kin competition is expected to select for longer dispersal distances, while the risk of being unable to locate suitable habitat should favor shorter dispersal distances. We illustrate the tradeoff between these two components of selection by considering their costs across dispersal distances, among dispersal kernels, and through evolutionary time. We then apply this framework to an unsolved empirical problem: explaining the interspecific variation in spatial scale of marine larval dispersal. We propose variation in ..., , , # Evolution of interspecific variation in marine larval dispersal kernels: The role of larval navigation ability

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This dataset is from the paper titled \"Evolution of interspecific variation in marine larval dispersal kernels: the role of larval navigation ability\", by: E. Lou Schlatter, Allison K. Shaw, Colleen T. Webb, Peter Buston, published in: Oikos, and is based on the model from the paper titled \"The evolution of marine larval dispersal kernels in spatially structured habitats: analytical models, individual-based simulations, and comparisons with empirical estimates\" by: Allison K Shaw, Cassidy C D'Aloia, Peter M Buston, published in: The American Naturalist.

## Contents

KernelEvolution_Oikos.zip is a compressed file containing the following **`folders`**, **`files`**, and `variables`:

1. Folder **`files_runsims`**: contains Matlab code (.m and .mlx files) for running model simulation data...,