Background and Aims Global environmental change will affect non-native plant invasions,
with profound potential impacts on native plant populations, communities and ecosystems …

Fluctuating asymmetry consists of random deviations from perfect symmetry in populations
of organisms. It is a measure of developmental noise, which reflects a population's average …

Despite its practical application in conservation biology and evolutionary theory, the cost of
inbreeding in natural populations of plants and animals remains to a large degree unknown …

Genetic variability in quantitative traits can change as a direct response to the environmental
conditions in which they are expressed. Consequently, similar selection in different …

Publisher Summary The chapter discusses the use of genotype-by-environment interaction
for crop cultivar development. The chapter begins with definitions of genotype, environment …

Island populations are more prone to extinction than mainland populations, with island
endemic species having higher extinction rates than nonendemic species. Inbreeding …

Background The heat shock response of Arabidopsis thaliana is dependent upon a complex
regulatory network involving twenty-one known transcription factors and four heat shock …

Salt is a natural component of the Australian landscape to which a number of biota
inhabiting rivers and wetlands are adapted. Under natural flow conditions periods of low …

We argue that population growth rate is the key unifying variable linking the various facets of
population ecology. The importance of population growth rate lies partly in its central role in …

When describing coral shape and form the term phenotypic plasticity, ie environment‐
induced changes in morphology, is often used synonymously with intraspecific variation …