Plants are exposed to heterogeneity in the environment where new stress factors (ie, climate
change, land use change, and invasiveness) are introduced, and where inter‐and …

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 …

I outline how understanding the mechanism of behavioural plasticity is important for
predicting how organisms will respond to rapidly changing and novel environments. I define …

Many important questions in ecology and evolutionary biology can only be answered with
data that extend over several decades and answering a substantial proportion of questions …

Summary 1 The role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution has historically been a contentious
issue because of debate over whether plasticity shields genotypes from selection or …

Adaptation to a sudden extreme change in environment, beyond the usual range of
background environmental fluctuations, is analysed using a quantitative genetic model of …

Genetically identical cells and organisms exhibit remarkable diversity even when they have
identical histories of environmental exposure. Noise, or variation, in the process of gene …

Invasion biologists often suggest that phenotypic plasticity plays an important role in
successful plant invasions. Assuming that plasticity enhances ecological niche breadth and …

In addition to considerable debate in the recent evolutionary literature about the limits of the
Modern Synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s, there has also been theoretical and empirical …

Human activities can expose populations to dramatic environmental perturbations, which
may then precipitate adaptive phenotypic change. We ask whether or not phenotypic …