AUTHOR=Diedericks Genevieve , Broeckhoven Chris , von der Heyden Sophie , Weyl Olaf L. F. , Hui Cang TITLE=The Role of Directed Dispersal in Driving Genetic and Morphological Structure in Invasive Smallmouth Bass JOURNAL=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution VOLUME=9 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.790829 DOI=10.3389/fevo.2021.790829 ISSN=2296-701X ABSTRACT=
Dispersal is an essential life-history trait crucial to species persistence and diversification. This is particularly important in spatiotemporal fluctuating environments such as freshwater habitats, where species movement is confined to the dendritic network and wetted boundaries. To persist in such fluctuating environments, a species can modify, adaptively and plastically, its phenotypic variation to better match the environment or escape via directed dispersal to a more suitable habitat (i.e., matching habitat choice). We use the invasive smallmouth bass,