Many species nowadays live in increasingly fragmented landscapes, forming metapopulation systems with discrete habitat patches inhabited by spatially separated local populations (Hanski & Gaggiotti, 2004). In such a scenario, dispersal represents the crucial process that drives gene flow, thus constituting one of the major drivers of evolutionary processes in local populations such as allele frequency changes or founder effects (Clobert, Baguette, Benton, & Bullock, 2012). At the same time, dispersal abilities should also be perceived as life-history traits of organisms, affected by genetic changes as well as by phenotypic plasticity (
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