A model of kin-migration in plants

✍ Scribed by D. A. Levin; A. G. Fix

• Book ID: 104715061
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 453 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-5752
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00305824

✦ Synopsis

Migrants between plant populations may represent a random sample of the donor population or may be related, being identical in the extreme. There is considerable potential for kin-structured migration in many plant species through the co-dispersal of seeds from single individuals. Through simulation experiments we have shown that the greater the level of relatedness of migrants, the less a given level of migration counterbalances the effect of genetic drift among populations.