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SUBMITTER: Lindstrom T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3746873 | biostudies-other | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lindström Tom T Brown Gregory P GP Sisson Scott A SA Phillips Benjamin L BL Shine Richard R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130729 33
Dispersal biology at an invasion front differs from that of populations within the range core, because novel evolutionary and ecological processes come into play in the nonequilibrium conditions at expanding range edges. In a world where species' range limits are changing rapidly, we need to understand how individuals disperse at an invasion front. We analyzed an extensive dataset from radio-tracking invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) over the first 8 y since they arrived at a site in tropica ...[more]