Recent theory and empirical evidence have provided new insights regarding how
evolutionary forces interact to shape adaptation at stable and transient range margins …

Phenotypic plasticity enables rapid responses to environmental change, and could facilitate
range shifts in response to climate change. What drives the evolution of plasticity at range …

Human activity has caused dramatic population declines in many wild species. The resulting
bottlenecks have a profound impact on the genetic makeup of a species with unknown …

We urgently need to predict species responses to climate change to minimize future
biodiversity loss and ensure we do not waste limited resources on ineffective conservation …

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 …

Colonization and expansion into novel landscapes determine the distribution and
abundance of species in our rapidly changing ecosystems worldwide. Colonization events …

The speed at which species adapt depends partly on the rates of beneficial adaptation
generation and how quickly they spread within and among populations. Natural rates of …

Why species have geographically restricted distributions is an unresolved question in
ecology and evolutionary biology. Here, we test a new explanation that mutation …

More than 100 years after Grigg's influential analysis of species' borders, the causes of limits
to species' ranges still represent a puzzle that has never been understood with clarity. The …

Eco-evolutionary theory suggests that rapid evolution can accelerate range expansion
speed. In addition to average speed, recent experimental studies reveal that evolution can …