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A toad more traveled: the heterogeneous invasion dynamics of cane toads in Australia

scientific article

Abiotic and biotic influences on the dispersal behavior of metamorph cane toads (Bufo marinus) in tropical Australia

scientific article

Adaptation or preadaptation: why are keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii) less vulnerable to invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) than are other Australian snakes?

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Adapting to an invasive species: toxic cane toads induce morphological change in Australian snakes ⬇️

scientific article

Adjusting to a toxic invader: native Australian frogs learn not to prey on cane toads

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Adjusting to climate: acclimation, adaptation, and developmental plasticity in physiological traits of a tropical rainforest lizard

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

After the crash: How do predators adjust following the invasion of a novel toxic prey type?

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After the games are over: life-history trade-offs drive dispersal attenuation following range expansion

scientific article

Allometry and selection in a novel predator-prey system: Australian snakes and the invading cane toad

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An evolutionary process that assembles phenotypes through space rather than through time

scientific article

An invasive species induces rapid adaptive change in a native predator: cane toads and black snakes in Australia ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2006

Anywhere but here: local conditions alone drive dispersal in Daphnia

Anywhere but here: local conditions motivate dispersal in ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Asplenium bird’s nest ferns in rainforest canopies are climate-contingent refuges for frogs

scholarly article by Brett R. Scheffers et al published December 2014 in Global Ecology and Conservation

Behavioural responses of an Australian colubrid snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) to a novel toxic prey item (the Cane Toad Rhinella marina)

scientific article published on 04 April 2018

Behavioural responses of reptile predators to invasive cane toads in tropical Australia

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Benefits of female mimicry in snakes

scientific article published in Nature

Bias averted: personality may not influence trappability

scientific article

Can pathogens optimize both transmission and dispersal by exploiting sexual dimorphism in their hosts?

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Cane toads lack physiological enhancements for dispersal at the invasive front in Northern Australia ⬇️

scientific article published on 2 November 2011

Characteristics of climate change refugia for Australian biodiversity

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Chemoreception and mating behaviour of a tropical Australian skink

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Clipping the Tail Fin Enables Cohort Identification of Small Anuran Tadpoles

scientific article published on 6 February 2019

Comparisons through time and space suggest rapid evolution of dispersal behaviour in an invasive species

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Cost and feasibility of a barrier to halt the spread of invasive cane toads in arid Australia: incorporating expert knowledge into model-based decision-making

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Directional dispersal has not evolved during the cane toad invasion

article by Gregory P. Brown et al published 12 January 2015 in Functional Ecology

Do evolutionary constraints on thermal performance manifest at different organizational scales?

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Do pathogens become more virulent as they spread? Evidence from the amphibian declines in Central America

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Does desiccation risk drive the distribution of juvenile cane toads ( Bufo marinus) in tropical Australia?

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Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?

scientific article published in 2024

Effects of rapid evolution due to predator-free conservation on endangered species recovery

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Establishment success of introduced amphibians increases in the presence of congeneric species

scientific article

Estimating the benefit of quarantine: eradicating invasive cane toads from islands

scientific article

Evolution Transforms Pushed Waves into Pulled Waves

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Evolution of dispersal and life history interact to drive accelerating spread of an invasive species.

scientific article

Evolution transforms pushed waves into pulled waves

Evolutionarily accelerated invasions: the rate of dispersal evolves upwards during the range advance of cane toads ⬇️

scientific article published on October 7, 2010

Evolutionary processes make invasion speed difficult to predict

article by Ben L. Phillips published 10 February 2015 in Biological Invasions

Evolutionary processes make invasion speed difficult to predict

scholarly article published 11 January 2015

Exploring mechanisms and origins of reduced dispersal in island Komodo dragons

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

Fatal attraction: adaptations to prey on native frogs imperil snakes after invasion of toxic toads ⬇️

scientific article

Fire history from life-history: determining the fire regime that a plant community is adapted using life-histories

scientific article

Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Get smart: native mammal develops toad-smart behavior in response to a toxic invader

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Going feral: Time and propagule pressure determine range expansion of Asian house geckos into natural environments

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Heat hardening in a tropical lizard: geographic variation explained by the predictability and variance in environmental temperatures

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Heritability of climate-relevant traits in a rainforest skink

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

How many and when? Optimising targeted gene flow for a step change in the environment

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

How many, and when? Optimising targeted gene flow for a step change in the environment

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Identification and dynamics of a cryptic suture zone in tropical rainforest.

scientific article

Identifying optimal barriers to halt the invasion of cane toadsRhinella marinain arid Australia

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Identifying the time scale of synchronous movement: a study on tropical snakes

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Increased rates of dispersal of free-ranging cane toads (Rhinella marina) during their global invasion ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

Increasing arboreality with altitude: a novel biogeographic dimension.

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Infection in patchy populations: Contrasting pathogen invasion success and dispersal at varying times since host colonization ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Intraspecific variation in climate-relevant traits in a tropical rainforest lizard

scholarly article by John Llewelyn et al published 9 August 2016 in Diversity and Distributions

Invader immunology: invasion history alters immune system function in cane toads (Rhinella marina) in tropical Australia

scientific article

Invasion and the evolution of speed in toads

scientific article published on February 2006

Invasion history alters the behavioural consequences of immune system activation in cane toads

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Invasion, stress, and spinal arthritis in cane toads ⬇️

scientific article

Life-history evolution in range-shifting populations

scientific article

Living on the Edge: Parasite Prevalence Changes Dramatically across a Range Edge in an Invasive Gecko

scientific article

Locomotor performance in an invasive species: cane toads from the invasion front have greater endurance, but not speed, compared to conspecifics from a long-colonised area

scientific article published on 16 October 2009

May the (selective) force be with you: Spatial sorting and natural selection exert opposing forces on limb length in an invasive amphibian

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Modelling species distributions without using species distributions: the cane toad in Australia under current and future climates

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New Weapons in the Toad Toolkit: A Review of Methods to Control and Mitigate the Biodiversity Impacts of Invasive Cane Toads (Rhinella Marina).

scientific article published in June 2017

No outbreeding depression in a trial of targeted gene flow in an endangered Australian marsupial

scientific article

Not such silly sausages: Evidence suggests northern quolls exhibit aversion to toads after training with toad sausages

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Not such silly sausages: Northern quolls exhibit aversion to toads after training with toad sausages

Novel Predators can Elicit Rapid Shifts in Prey Demographics and Behavior

scientific article published in 2021

Out of the frying pan: Reintroduction of toad-smart northern quolls to southern Kakadu National Park

scientific article published in 2017

Parasites and pathogens lag behind their host during periods of host range advance

scientific article

Parasites under pressure: salmon lice have the capacity to adapt to depth-based preventions in aquaculture

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Range shift promotes the formation of stable range edges

Rapid shifts in dispersal behavior on an expanding range edge ⬇️

scientific article

Reduced investment in immune function in invasion-front populations of the cane toad (Rhinella marina) in Australia

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Reid’s Paradox Revisited: The Evolution of Dispersal Kernels during Range Expansion

scientific article published in 2008

Reply to Lee: Spatial sorting, assortative mating, and natural selection.

scholarly article

Risky movement increases the rate of range expansion

scientific article

Road transect surveys do not reveal any consistent effects of a toxic invasive species on tropical reptiles

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Single copy nuclear DNA markers characterized for comparative phylogeography in Australian wet tropics rainforest skinks

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Spatial Sorting Unlikely to Promote Maladaptive Hybridization: Response to Lowe, Muhlfeld, and Allendorf

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Spatial and temporal variation in the morphology (and thus, predicted impact) of an invasive species in Australia

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Species-isolating mechanisms in a mating system with male mate choice (garter snakes, Thamnophis spp.)

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Stability of the wMel Wolbachia Infection following invasion into Aedes aegypti populations ⬇️

scientific article

Stepping inside the niche: microclimate data are critical for accurate assessment of species' vulnerability to climate change

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Stress and immunity at the invasion front: a comparison across cane toad (Rhinella marina) populations

article by Gregory P. Brown et al published 1 August 2015 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Targeted gene flow and rapid adaptation in an endangered marsupial

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Targeted gene flow for conservation

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The Potential for Rapid Evolution under Anthropogenic Climate Change

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The cane toad's (Chaunus [Bufo] marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range model ⬇️

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The capacity of refugia for conservation planning under climate change

scholarly article by Gunnar Keppel et al published March 2015 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

The ecological impact of invasive cane toads on tropical snakes: field data do not support laboratory-based predictions

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The evolution of an ‘intelligent’ dispersal strategy: biased, correlated random walks in patchy landscapes

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The evolution of growth rates on an expanding range edge ⬇️

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The frog filter: amphibian introduction bias driven by taxonomy, body size and biogeography

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The genetic backburn: using rapid evolution to halt invasions ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2016

The impact of parasites during range expansion of an invasive gecko.

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

The lexicon of love: what cues cause size-assortative courtship by male garter snakes?

article by Richard Shine et al published 1 March 2003 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

The morphology, and hence impact, of an invasive species (the cane toad, Bufo marinus): changes with time since colonisation

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The on‐ground feasibility of a waterless barrier to stop the spread of invasive cane toads in Western Australia

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

The perils of paradise: an endangered species conserved on an island loses antipredator behaviours within 13 generations

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

The population genetics of spatial sorting

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The role of behavioural variation in the invasion of new areas

scholarly article published 14 June 2012

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

scientific article published in November 2014

The toad ahead: challenges of modelling the range and spread of an invasive species

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There is no evidence for a temporal link between pathogen arrival and frog extinctions in north-eastern Australia

scientific article

Thermoregulatory behaviour explains countergradient variation in the upper thermal limit of a rainforest skink

scholarly article by John Llewelyn et al published 2 November 2016 in Oikos

Toad on the road: Use of roads as dispersal corridors by cane toads (Bufo marinus) at an invasion front in tropical Australia

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Trade-offs and the evolution of life-histories during range expansion

scientific article

Training fails to elicit behavioral change in a marsupial suffering evolutionary loss of antipredator behaviors

scientific article

Trophic cascade driven by behavioral fine‐tuning as naïve prey rapidly adjust to a novel predator

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Turgid female toads give males the slip: a new mechanism of female mate choice in the Anura.

scientific article

Unwelcome and unpredictable: the sorry saga of cane toads in Australia

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Using Connectivity To Identify Climatic Drivers Of Local Adaptation

Using connectivity to identify climatic drivers of local adaptation

scientific article

Vertical (arboreality) and horizontal (dispersal) movement increase the resilience of vertebrates to climatic instability

article published in 2017

Virgins in the vanguard: low reproductive frequency in invasion-front cane toads

article by Cameron M. Hudson et al published 14 July 2015 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

When dinner is dangerous: toxic frogs elicit species-specific responses from a generalist snake predator

scientific article

When vicars meet: a narrow contact zone between morphologically cryptic phylogeographic lineages of the rainforest skink, Carlia rubrigularis

scientific article published on July 2004

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