… We used individual-based spatially explicit simulations to examine … In this study, we considered
the invaded landscape as a … However, the impacts on Tench adaptive potential remain …

… stationary state, then we can consider that the fitness of a given mutant individual in this
population governs the possibility of invasion of the descendants of this mutant in the population. …

… evolution modifies diverse spatial processes, such as range expansions or biological invasions
… processes, from local adaptation to range expansions or biological invasions [1,2]. The …

… present strongly multidimensional adaptive challenges to invading populations, particularly
… may create hard evolutionary limits, that arrest the spread of invasions for long periods, until …

… Packer and Pusey (1995) consequently suggested that the observed litter size distribution
was adaptive and that alternative litter size strategists could always invade groups with large …

… 25 invasion of closely related conspecifics into wild populations … populations away from
local adaptive peaks (extrinsic outbreeding depression) or lead to a 56 breakdown of adaptive …

… spatial patterns of genetic variation across the invaded range and at finer geographic
scales, we extracted DNA from a total of 345 samples collected throughout the known invaded …

… Our findings have especially interesting implications for understanding cancer evolution.
Here we consider a wildtype tumour that evolves while invading a resident population of normal …

… conditions that result in biological invasions. Therefore, the knowledge … Verbal and
individual-based models have identified … on species’ fitness and adaptive evolution have largely …

… of the current population to an evolutionary invasion of … evolutionary processes may
disrupt any adaptive evolution … Chapter 2 examines an individual-based simulation model on …