In an article aimed at high school students for the journal Frontiers for Young Minds my former student Nienke Prins and I explain hybrid zone movement. Obviously we also mention the best example of hybrid zone movement there is: crested newts. Please have a look here.

(You can also see a previous Frontiers for Young Minds piece from our lab on balanced lethal systems here.)

Reference: Prins, N., Wielstra, B. (2024). Moving hybrid zones; when two species meet, mate, and compete. Frontiers for Young Minds 12: 1207354.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 655487.