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The 22 pages that link to Dispersal, each with the reason it gives.

• TerritorialityRelated: Leaving an occupied area can be an alternative to contesting a territory.

• BiogeographyRelated: Long-distance dispersal competes with vicariance as the main explanation for disjunct distributions.

• MetamorphosisRelated: A mobile larval stage can spread a species before settling into its adult habitat.

• Ecological successionRelated: Colonization depends on species reaching newly available habitat.

• EndemismRelated: Limited dispersal can keep a taxon's range confined to one region.

• PaleobiogeographyRelated: Dispersal can account for related fossils appearing in distant regions.

• Population ecologyRelated: Immigration and emigration alter local population size and connect populations.

• MetapopulationRelated: Movement among habitat patches connects otherwise separate populations.

• HabitatRelated: Dispersal determines whether organisms can reach newly suitable habitat.

• Introduced speciesRelated: After establishment, dispersal can carry a species beyond its initial introduction site.

• Species distributionRelated: Dispersal lets species reach locations beyond their current range.

• Island ecologyRelated: Dispersal determines which species can reach and recolonize islands.

• Ecological connectivityRelated: Dispersal links populations and determines whether distant habitats can be reached.

• Biogeographic realmRelated: Dispersal across barriers helps determine where realm boundaries persist or blur.

• CorixidaeRelated: Flight allows many Corixidae to colonize or move among isolated water bodies.

• ButtonquailRelated: Ground-dwelling buttonquails often move through suitable habitat without conspicuous long-distance flights.

• InfestationRelated: Movement between hosts, rooms, or stores spreads an infestation.

• Lar gibbonRelated: Young lar gibbons eventually leave their natal group and seek opportunities to breed.

• MekosuchusRelated: Colonization of separated Pacific islands requires some route of dispersal.