A great challenge for ecology in the coming decades is to understand the role humans play
in eco-evolutionary dynamics. If, as emerging evidence shows, rapid evolutionary change …

Local adaptation has been a major focus of evolutionary ecologists working across diverse
systems for decades. However, little of this research has explored variation at …

The reemergence and growing burden of mosquito‐borne virus infections have incited
public fear and growing research efforts to understand the mechanisms of infection …

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as
intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen …

Amphibians and reptiles as a group are often secretive, reach their greatest diversity often in
remote tropical regions, and contain some of the most endangered groups of organisms on …

Dispersal moves individuals from patches where their immediate ancestors were successful
to sites where their genotypes are untested. As a result, dispersal generally reduces fitness …

Both environmental and genetic influences can result in phenotypic variation. Quantifying
the relative contributions of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity to phenotypes is key to …

Although temperature variation is known to cause large-scale adaptive divergence, its
potential role as a selective factor over microgeographic scales is less well-understood …

Background Past events like fluctuations in population size and post-glacial colonization
processes may influence the relative importance of genetic drift, migration and selection …

Molecular ecology has become one of the key tools in the modern conservationist's kit. Here
we review three areas where molecular ecology has been applied to amphibian …