One of the great challenges of the twenty-first century is to re-invent both the language and
the practice of “international development”. In recent years, a crisis in confidence has …

Reviewers have the benefit of hindsight. This is especially true of the present review of four
books concerning retirement and pension policy, all of which were penned prior to the crisis …

… Thomson Comeault and Wheeler, which builds upon earlier work by members of that
research team showing that removing the worst social performers from the TSX60 Index did not …

In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson's Bay Company sent men to its furthest
posts along the coast of North America's Pacific Northwest, the letters of those who cared for …

A number of organizational changes were implemented at UBC Library during the reporting
period, including the appointment of an Interim Deputy University Librarian to manage the …

There is a widespread view that the process of adaptation in complex systems is made difficult
due to an evolutionary cost of complexity that is reflected in lower evolvability. This line of …

Species range limits involve many aspects of evolution and ecology, from species distribution
and abundance to the evolution of niches. Theory suggests myriad processes by which …

Germination behavior is one of the earliest phenotypes expressed by plants. This fact has
several consequences for the evolution of postgermination traits, ecological niches, and …

Invasive species are a chief threat to native biodiversity and are only becoming more
common with human globalization. This creates a need to understand the patterns in invasion …

Phylogenetic approaches to biogeography are rapidly becoming more sophisticated. Four
types of models are being explored in the literature: (a) diffusion models, (b) island models, (c) …