A growing body of literature seeks to explain variation in range shifts using species'
ecological and life‐history traits, with expectations that shifts should be greater in species …

Dispersal, the behaviour ensuring gene flow, tends to covary with a number of
morphological, ecological and behavioural traits. While species‐specific dispersal …

An organism's ability to disperse influences many fundamental processes, from speciation
and geographical range expansion to community assembly. However, the patterns and …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 677–689 Abstract Although some organisms have moved to
higher elevations and latitudes in response to recent climate change, there is little …

Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

Dispersal can stimulate speciation by facilitating geographical expansion across barriers or
inhibit speciation by maintaining gene flow among populations. Therefore, the relationship …

Avian egg shape is generally explained as an adaptation to life history, yet we currently lack
a global synthesis of how egg-shape differences arise and evolve. Here, we apply …

The factors responsible for variation in dispersal distances across species remain poorly
understood. Previous comparative studies found differing results and equivocal support for …

Vertebrates perform key roles in ecosystem processes via trophic interactions with plants
and insects, but the response of these interactions to environmental change is difficult to …

Sexual selection is proposed to be an important driver of diversification in animal systems,
yet previous tests of this hypothesis have produced mixed results and the mechanisms …