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Novel variation associated with species range expansion [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 When species shift their ranges to track climate change, they are almost certain to experience novel environments to which they are poorly adapted. Otaki and co-workers document an explosion of wing pattern variation accompanying range expansion in the ...
Pomiankowski Andrew +2 more
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Evaluating range-expansion models for calculating nonnative species' expansion rate [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2014 Species range shifts associated with environmental change or biological invasions are increasingly important study areas. However, quantifying range expansion rates may be heavily influenced by methodology and/or sampling bias. We compared expansion rate
Bellmann H. +7 more
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Range Expansion of Heterogeneous Populations [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2014 Risk spreading in bacterial populations is generally regarded as a strategy to maximize survival. Here, we study its role during range expansion of a genetically diverse population where growth and motility are two alternative traits. We find that during the initial expansion phase fast growing cells do have a selective advantage.
Reiter, Matthias +2 more
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Protected areas facilitate species’ range expansions [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 The benefits of protected areas (PAs) for biodiversity have been questioned in the context of climate change because PAs are static, whereas the distributions of species are dynamic. Current PAs may, however, continue to be important if they provide suitable locations for species to colonize at their leading-edge range boundaries, thereby enabling ...
Thomas, Chris D. +21 more
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Interspecific competition slows range expansion and shapes range boundaries [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 Significance Range expansion is how invasive species spread and how species track habitats shifting from climate change, so understanding this process is a key applied and basic challenge. Ecologists have long theorized that a competitor can slow or even halt range expansion.
Geoffrey Legault +3 more
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Fauna Norvegica, 2020 A small (36.5 cm) female walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus Pallas, 1814 was caught north of Spitsbergen in 2011. The specimen had a high number of pyloric caeca (n=109), indicating a Pacific origin.
Ingvar Byrkjedal, Gunnar Langhelle
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Testing consistency of modelled predictions of the impact of climate change on bats
Climate Change Ecology, 2021 Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are a cornerstone of climate change conservation research but temporal extrapolations into future climate scenarios cannot be verified until later this century.
Natasha E. McGowan +6 more
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Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of range expansion
Ecology, 2020 AbstractUnderstanding 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, range expansion is now understood to involve eco‐evolutionary feedbacks due to spatial genetic structure that emerges as populations spread.
Tom E. X. Miller +13 more
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Population dynamics and range expansion in nine-banded armadillos. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Understanding why certain species can successfully colonize new areas while others do not is a central question in ecology. The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is a conspicuous example of a successful invader, having colonized much of the ...
William J Loughry +3 more
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