Cover: Cancer metastasis as a form of ecological dispersal. Once a cancer successfully establishes a niche in the primary organ, it invariably metastasizes. Disseminated cancer cells use the blood stream to undergo jump dispersal and if they are able to surpass dispersal and niche filters they can act as an invasive species and establish a foothold in distant sites. Eventually they may proliferate and act as ecological engineers to form a new niche in the target organ. See article by Yang et al. on pages 1478–1485.
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