THE EVOLUTION OF DISPERSAL ON RANGE EDGES

Heritability of climate-relevant traits in a rainforest skink

Felipe Martins, Loeske Kruuk, John Llewelyn, Craig Moritz, Ben Phillips

2019-01-01

There is justified concern about the impact of global warming on the persistence of tropical ectotherms. There is also growing evi..

Peripheral Isolates as Sources of Adaptive Diversity under Climate Change

Stewart L Macdonald, John Llewelyn, Craig Moritz, Ben L Phillips

2017-08-14

As climate change progresses, there is increasing focus on the possibility of using targeted gene flow (TGF, the movement of pre-a..

Thermoregulatory behaviour explains countergradient variation in the upper thermal limit of a rainforest skink

John Llewelyn, Stewart Macdonald, Amberlee Hatcher, Craig Moritz, Ben L Phillips

2017-05-01

The vulnerability of a terrestrial ectotherm to high environmental temperatures depends on the animal's thermal physiology and the..

Intraspecific variation in climate-relevant traits in a tropical rainforest lizard

John Llewelyn, Stewart L Macdonald, Amberlee Hatcher, Craig Moritz, Ben L Phillips

2016-10-01

Aim: The exceptionally rich biodiversity found in tropical rainforest is under threat from anthropogenic climate change. We recogn..

Heat hardening in a tropical lizard: geographic variation explained by the predictability and variance in environmental temperatures

Ben L Phillips, Martha M Munoz, Amberlee Hatcher, Stewart L Macdonald, John Llewelyn, Vanessa Lucy, Craig Moritz

2016-07-01

Over the coming decades, our planet will experience a dramatic increase in average temperatures and an increase in the variance ar..

The genetic backburn: using rapid evolution to halt invasions

Ben L Phillips, Richard Shine, Reid Tingley

2016-02-24

The impact of an invasive species depends upon the extent of area across which it ultimately spreads. A powerful strategy for limi..

Behaviour on Invasion Fronts, and the Behaviour of Invasion Fronts

Ben L Phillips

2016-01-01

This book provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of animal behaviour in the success and impact of biological invasions..

Stress and immunity at the invasion front: a comparison across cane toad (Rhinella marina) populations

Gregory P Brown, Crystal Kelehear, Catherine M Shilton, Benjamin L Phillips, Rick Shine

2015-12-01

At an invasion front, energetic and physiological trade‐offs may differ from those at the range‐core as a result of selection for ..

Virgins in the vanguard: low reproductive frequency in invasion-front cane toads

Cameron M Hudson, Benjamin L Phillips, Gregory P Brown, Richard Shine

2015-12-01

The rapid evolution of increased dispersal rate during a population's range expansion provides a unique opportunity to detect trad..

Evolutionary processes make invasion speed difficult to predict

Ben L Phillips

2015-07-01

A capacity to predict the spread rate of populations is critical for understanding the impacts of climate change and invasive spec..

Evolutionary processes make invasion speed difficult to predict

Ben Phillips

2015-01-11

A capacity to predict the spread rate of populations is critical for understanding the impacts of climate change and invasive spec..

Characteristics of climate change refugia for Australian biodiversity

April E Reside, Justin A Welbergen, Ben L Phillips, Grant W Wardell-Johnson, Gunnar Keppel, Simon Ferrier, Stephen E Williams, Jeremy Vanderwal

2014-12-01

Identifying refugia is a critical component of effective conservation of biodiversity under anthropogenic climate change. However,..

Do evolutionary constraints on thermal performance manifest at different organizational scales?

BL Phillips, J Llewelyn, A Hatcher, S Macdonald, C Moritz

2014-12-01

The two foremost hypotheses on the evolutionary constraints on an organism's thermal sensitivity—the hotter-is-better expectation,..