While the mechanistic links between animal movement and population dynamics are
ecologically obvious, it is much less clear when knowledge of animal movement is a …

Recent patterns of global change have highlighted the importance of understanding the
dynamics and mechanisms of species range shifts and expansions. Unique demographic …

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed
resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that …

In classical evolutionary theory, traits evolve because they facilitate organismal survival
and/or reproduction. We discuss a different type of evolutionary mechanism that relies upon …

Most evolutionary theory does not deal with populations expanding or contracting in space.
Invasive species, climate change, epidemics, and the breakdown of dispersal barriers …

Human activities are changing habitats and climates and causing species' ranges to shift.
Range expansion brings into play a set of powerful evolutionary forces at the expanding …

The successful establishment and expansion of invasive species may be linked to the
behavior and dispersal tendency of individuals within an introduced population. To test the …

Species are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors
that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic …

The process of biological invasion exposes a species to novel pressures, in terms of both
the environments it encounters and the evolutionary consequences of range expansion …

A fundamental question of current ecological research concerns the drives and limits of
species responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC). Behavioural …