Evolutionary rescue occurs when adaptive evolutionary change restores positive growth to
declining populations and prevents extinction. Here we outline the diagnostic features of …

Bottlenecks in population size can reduce fitness and evolutionary potential, yet introduced
species often become invasive. This poses a dilemma referred to as the genetic paradox of …

Chapter 1: Introducing biological invasions and the IPBES thematic assessment of invasive
alien species and their control of the Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien …

With the advent of the Anthropocene, biological invasions have reached an unprecedented
level, and the number of species introductions is still increasing in an ever‐changing world …

The reorganization of patterns of species diversity driven by anthropogenic climate change,
and the consequences for humans, are not yet fully understood or appreciated …

Specialization is a concept based on a broad theoretical framework developed by
evolutionary biologists and ecologists. In the past 10 years, numerous studies have reported …

The economic and ecological effects of invasive species, notably pests (Mack et al. 2000;
Suckling and Brockerhoff 2010; Ragsdale et al. 2011), are now widely recognized (Thomas …

We present a framework for explaining variation in predator invasion success and predator
impacts on native prey that integrates information about predator–prey naïveté, predator and …

Detailed knowledge about the geographical pathways followed by propagules from their
source to the invading populations—referred to here as routes of invasion—provides …

Many emerging invasive species display evidence of rapid adaptation. Contemporary
genetic studies demonstrate that adaptation to novel environments can occur within 20 …