Global warming promotes biological invasion of a honey bee pest

B Cornelissen, P Neumann… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and biological invasions are two major global environmental challenges.
Both may interact, eg via altered impact and distribution of invasive alien species. Even …

Rapidly evolved traits enable new conservation tools: perspectives from the cane toad invasion of Australia

R Shine, S Baeckens - Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Natural populations can show rapid adaptive responses to intense (human-mediated)
environmental change. The potential for exploiting rapidly evolved traits for conservation …

Increased rates of dispersal of free-ranging cane toads (Rhinella marina) during their global invasion

R Shine, RA Alford, R Blennerhasset, GP Brown… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Invasions often accelerate through time, as dispersal-enhancing traits accumulate at the
expanding range edge. How does the dispersal behaviour of individual organisms shift to …

Climate match is key to predict range expansion of the world's worst invasive terrestrial vertebrates

Y Du, X Wang, S Ashraf, W Tu, Y Xi, R Cui… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the determinants of the range expansion of invasive alien species is crucial
for developing effective prevention and control strategies. Nevertheless, we still lack a global …

The establishment and eradication of an extra-limital population of invasive cane toads

MJ Greenlees, S Harris, AW White, R Shine - Biological Invasions, 2018 - Springer
Biological invasions expand not only as a continuous front, but also via translocation of
small numbers of individuals to sites far from the main distribution. Detecting and eradicating …

Source of environmental data and warming tolerance estimation in six species of North American larval anurans

M Katzenberger, J Hammond, M Tejedo… - Journal of Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The current global warming scenario has led to a renewed interest in determining which
species are more vulnerable to climate change. Hence, it is important to understand which …

Diurnal activity in cane toads (Rhinella marina) is geographically widespread

L Pettit, S Ducatez, JL DeVore, G Ward-Fear… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Although adult cane toads (Rhinella marina) are generally active only at night, a recent
study reported that individuals of this species switched to diurnal activity in response to …