The straight and narrow path: The evolution of straight-line dispersal at a cane toad invasion front

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1795, 2014, Pages

  Brown, Gregory P ^a   Phillips, Benjamin L ^b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bufo marinus; Circular variance; Fractal dimension; Range expansion; Spatial sorting; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PREDICTION; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTION; TOAD; TRACKING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AUSTRALIA; BUFO MARINUS; EVOLUTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUFO MARINUS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEMETRY;

AUSTRALIA;

BUFO MARINUS;

EID: 84908141196     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1385     Document Type: Article

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