The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic is a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of
pathogen spillover from wildlife to human hosts, particularly in densely populated urban …

Invasive rodents impact biodiversity, human health and food security worldwide. The
biodiversity impacts are particularly significant on islands, which are the primary sites of …

Seascape genetics, a term coined in 2006, is a fast growing area of population genetics that
draws on ecology, oceanography and geography to address challenges in basic …

Human commensal species such as rodent pests are often widely distributed across cities
and threaten both infrastructure and public health. Spatially explicit population genomic …

Extreme and remote environments provide useful settings to test ideas about the ecological
and evolutionary drivers of biological diversity. In the sub‐A ntarctic, isolation by geographic …

Disturbances such as fire provide an opportunity for invasive plant species to exploit newly
created niche space. Whether initial invaders facilitate, compete with, or do not affect later …

Genetic variation, as a basis of evolutionary change, allows species to adapt and persist in
different climates and environments. Yet, a comprehensive assessment of the drivers of …

Abstract The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) is a key pest species globally and responsible
for seasonal outbreaks of the zoonotic bacterial disease leptospirosis in the tropics. The city …

Species flocks are proliferations of closely-related species, usually after colonization of
depauperate habitat. These radiations are abundant on oceanic islands and in ancient …

While the theory of micro-evolution by natural selection assigns a crucial role to competition,
its role in macroevolution is less clear. Phylogenetic evidence for a decelerating …