Gene flow is a fundamental evolutionary force in adaptation that is especially important to
understand as humans are rapidly changing both the natural environment and natural levels …

Patterns of local adaptation are expected to emerge when selection is spatially
heterogeneous and sufficiently strong relative to the action of other evolutionary forces. The …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 378–392 Abstract Forest trees are the dominant species in many
parts of the world and predicting how they might respond to climate change is a vital global …

Dispersal is ubiquitous throughout the tree of life: factors selecting for dispersal include kin
competition, inbreeding avoidance and spatiotemporal variation in resources or habitat …

Local adaptation experiments are widely used to quantify the levels of adaptation within a
heterogeneous environment. However, theoretical studies generally focus on the probability …

Genetic variation is usually estimated empirically from statistics based on population gene
frequencies, but alternative statistics based on allelic diversity (number of allelic types) can …

Gene flow has tremendous importance for local adaptation, by influencing the fate of de
novo mutations, maintaining standing genetic variation and driving adaptive introgression …

Dispersal, the tendency for organisms to reproduce away from their parents, influences
many evolutionary and ecological processes, from speciation and extinction events, to the …

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) analysis pioneered by Maynard Smith and Price took off
in part because it often does not require explicit assumptions about the genetics and …

The giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera is a cosmopolitan species of cold-temperate coasts. Its
South-American distribution ranges from Peru to Cape Horn and Argentina, encompassing a …