Summary Publication of The Genetics of Colonizing Species in 1965 launched the field of
invasion genetics and highlighted the value of biological invasions as natural ecological and …

The duality between “niche” and “biotope” proposed by G. Evelyn Hutchinson provides a
powerful way to conceptualize and analyze biogeographical distributions in relation to …

Summary 1 Humans have traded and transported alien species for millennia with two
notable step‐changes: the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Industrial …

Although invasive species are viewed as major threats to ecosystems worldwide, few such
species have been studied in enough detail to identify the pathways, magnitudes, and …

Understanding the movement of species' ranges is a classic ecological problem that takes
on urgency in this era of global change. Historically treated as a purely ecological process …

Biological invasions and changes in land-use are two components of global change
affecting biodiversity worldwide. There is overriding evidence that invasions can …

Recent studies have shown that low-frequency alleles can sometimes surf on the wave of
advance of a population range expansion, reaching high frequencies and spreading over …

Released as a biological control agent of aphids and coccids, Harmonia axyridis
(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) has spread from Asia to four additional continents. Since 1988 …

Climate geoengineering proposals seek to rectify the current radiative imbalance via either
(1) reducing incoming solar radiation (solar radiation management) or (2) removing CO 2 …

There is growing realisation that integrating genetics and ecology is critical in the context of
biological invasions, since the two are explicitly linked. So far, the focus of ecological …