TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Hayashi, Morito
AU  - Bakkali, Mohammed
AU  - Hyde, Alexander
AU  - Goodacre, Sara L.
PY  - 2015
SN  - 1471-2148
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/37089
AB  - Background:
Long-distance dispersal events have the potential to shape species distributions and ecosystem diversity over large spatial scales, and to influence processes such as population persistence and the pace and scale of invasion. How such...
AB  - Results:
In our study we find that ballooning in a subset of individuals from two groups of widely-distributed and phylogenetically distinct terrestrial spiders (linyphiids and one tetragnathid) is associated with a hitherto undescribed ability of...
AB  - Conclusions:
The ability of individuals capable of long-distance aerial dispersal to survive encounters with water allows them to disperse repeatedly, thereby increasing the pace and spatial scale over which they can spread and subsequently exert an...
LA  - eng
PB  - Biomed Central
KW  - Sail
KW  - Sink
KW  - Water
KW  - Dispersing species
KW  - Agricultural ecosystems
KW  - Spiders
KW  - Ecosystems
TI  - Sail or sink: novel behavioural adaptations on water in aerially dispersing species
DO  - 10.1186/s12862-015-0402-5
ER  -