Article
Is the sky the limit? On the expansion threshold of a species' range.
PLoS biology - 1 Jun 2018
Polechová Jitka
Abstract excerpt
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 topic has become especially important recently as many scientists have become interested in the potential for species' ranges to shift in response to climate change-and yet nearly all of those studies fail to recognise or...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Biological Evolution
- Computer Simulation
- Ecosystem
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Drift
- Genetic Variation
- Models, Biological
- Population Dynamics
- Species Specificity