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Presaturation and saturation dispersal 15 years later: some theoretical considerations

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Animal Dispersal

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It is a common English idiom to ‘look forward and back’. In this chapter we reverse this procedure and first look backward to 1975 when the idea of presaturation dispersal was first introduced by Lidicker (1975). We will review what has happened to this suggestion subsequently, and finally look forward to where it might lead us next.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway

    Nils Chr. Stenseth

  2. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    William Z. Lidicker Jr

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Stenseth, N.C., Lidicker, W.Z. (1992). Presaturation and saturation dispersal 15 years later: some theoretical considerations. In: Stenseth, N.C., Lidicker, W.Z. (eds) Animal Dispersal. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2338-9_9

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