New Year, Same Blog!

Happy New Year everyone! With 2020 behind us, let’s get ready for a fresh new year. Here’s a preview of what our blog has in store.

Urban Observations

Yep. We will continue to bring you weekly urban observations. We think that it is an important aspect of urban evolution research. In fact, the step in the scientific method is to make an observation! Also, in years past, biologists used to think that urban areas were islands of no flora or fauna, and thus not worthy of research. We hope that these many weekly observations have shown that there is vast diversity of plants and animals that live in cities.

New Research

We always welcome contributors to share their new research with us. Also, we have a Special Issue coming out soon in Evolutionary Applications that we will share each of the articles in.

Database

Our blog is looking into database options. We are working towards putting together a database of the past and current research in urban evolution.

We look forward to all the great new ideas and research of the new year!

If you would like to become a contributor, check out our guidelines here.

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lindsaymilesphd

I'm a recent graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University in the Integrative Life Science Doctoral Program. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Marc Johnson's EvoEco Lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

I am interested in urban ecology and evolution. Urbanization can have drastic impacts on local ecosystems, both negative and positive, and creates a new environment for organisms to experience. To understand the impacts that urbanization plays on organisms, I look through the lense of population genetics and molecular evolution.

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