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Shaw, E. C., R. Fowler, S. Ohadi, M. J. Bayly, R. A. Barrett, J. Tibbits, A. Strand, et al. 2020. Explaining the worldwide distributions of two highly mobile species: Cakile edentula and Cakile maritima. Journal of Biogeography 48: 603–615. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14024

Aim: If we are able to determine the geographic origin of an invasion, as well as its known area of introduction, we can better appreciate the innate environmental tolerance of a species and the strength of selection for adaptation that colonizing populations have undergone. It also enables us to ma…