Sebastian Schreiber

Question: When more individual remain in a patch, than disperse away from a patch, you might say the population is philopatric. What word would you use to describe the opposite scenario: more individuals leaving a patch than remaining in a patch? miseopatric? anti-philopatric? something else?

My goal is to have two words to distinguish between positive subdominant eigenvalues (philopatric) and negative subdominant eigenvalues (??) of a dispersal matrix/operator.

Please retoot.

Jul 5, 2023 at 7:46pmWeb
Show threadSebastian SchreiberJul 6, 2023
One possibility that appears to be commonly used in the dispersal literature is "site fidelity" versus "site infidelity" Definitely simpler terms but (i) not sure how to turn these into adjectives and (ii) don't like what web searches turn up when you only enter "site infidelity" instead of "site infidelity dispersal"
Show threadFrederic BarraquandJul 6, 2023
@SebastianSchreiber perhaps "dispersal-prone"? I've seen this a couple of times.
Show threadGraham CoopJul 5, 2023
@SebastianSchreiber anti-philopatric makes sense to me
Show threadJeffrey Ross-IbarraJul 5, 2023
@gcbias @SebastianSchreiber i dunno who this Patrick guy is but anyone who dislikes baklava dough has lost my respect
Show threadSebastian SchreiberJul 5, 2023
@jrossibarra @gcbias I believe Patrick is more of a sponge cake fan
Show threadRicardo SeguradoJul 5, 2023

@SebastianSchreiber

Misopatric, or does it need the "e" you put in?

Or maybe phobopatric.

Show threadSebastian SchreiberJul 5, 2023
@red_concrete you are right that it doesn't need the "e" :)
Show threadRicardo SeguradoJul 5, 2023

@SebastianSchreiber

Well I don't know any Greek so I wouldn't have been surprised! :)

Show threadBen BolkerJul 5, 2023
@SebastianSchreiber Fancy words are fun (and will appeal to the nerdy in your audience) but the bio literature seems to use "dispersing" ... ? (I agree it's not great and a new word *might* be justified). Being the boring person that I am, "anti-philopatric" would be my next choice (Side note, "philopatric" is like "television", a 'chimera word' that combines Greek and Latin roots ...)
Show threadSebastian SchreiberJul 5, 2023
@bbolker not looking to be fancy - want to communicate as clearly as possible. As the research is all about dispersal, using dispersal as the alternative isn't great - even if you see that in some papers. Perhaps, I shouldn't be using philopatric for the positive, subdominant eigenvalues :S
Show threadErol AkcayJul 5, 2023
@SebastianSchreiber phobopatric? (As in hydrophilic and hydrophobic)
Show threadMartin GarlovskyJul 6, 2023
@SebastianSchreiber dispersive