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  • Bats in Leiden: The night shift nobody talks about

    January 24, 2026
  • An urban fairy-tale: saving butterflies from urbanization

    January 24, 2026
  • Person crouching in grass, reaching their hand out towards a tree squirrel

    Behavioral Convergence in Urban Wildlife

    January 24, 2026
  • Cities as Evolutionary Incubators: Unlocking the Secret of the Spotted Lanternfly Invasion

    January 24, 2026
  • SICB 2023: January 6th Summary

    SICB 2023: January 6th Summary

    January 6, 2023

    Be sure to check out today’s Urban Evolution talks and posters at SICB! Time Room Title Authors 9:15 – 9:30 AM 402-403 Commonalities in the response of North American salamander skin microbiota to wildfires and roads Gomez, O.H.; Mulla, L.;…

  • SICB 2023: January 5th Summary

    SICB 2023: January 5th Summary

    January 5, 2023

    Be sure to check out today’s Urban Evolution talks and posters at SICB! Time Room Title Authors 9:00 – 9:15 AM Lonestar F Human-provided food and heterogeneity in aggression in urbanized flocks of American white ibis Weil, J.; Wilson, C.;…

  • SICB 2023: January 4th Summary

    SICB 2023: January 4th Summary

    January 4, 2023

    Be sure to check out today’s Urban Evolution talks and posters at SICB! Time Room Title Authors 8:00 – 8:15 AM 402-403 Creating Interdisciplinary Conservation Tools: A Case Study on Vaccinating Urban Wildlife Shriver, C.; Scott, D.; Palakurthy, I.; Hansen,…

  • Reminder: Urban Evolution at SICB 2023

    Reminder: Urban Evolution at SICB 2023

    January 3, 2023

    Remember to check out all the incredible research on urban systems at SICB this year! Email Kristin if you’d like to contribute to the blog by covering one of these talks or posters. Day Time Room Title Authors Wed., Jan.…

  • Top 10 Urban Evolutionary Ecology Papers of 2022

    Top 10 Urban Evolutionary Ecology Papers of 2022

    January 2, 2023

    Humans are now the dominant driver of evolution. Most contemporary examples of rapid evolution in nature stem from the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on populations. A prominent example of this is how urbanization affects species’ evolution. This topic has received…

  • Modelling the spread of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly

    Modelling the spread of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly

    December 30, 2022

    The Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is an invasive plant-hopper pest native to parts of China, first introduced to the United States in Berks County, PA, in 2014. According to the NYSIPM, egg masses were hypothesized to have arrived in stone…

  • New Lit Alert: Skyscrapers as Ecological Traps of the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae): Preliminary Observations

    New Lit Alert: Skyscrapers as Ecological Traps of the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae): Preliminary Observations

    December 28, 2022

    Skyscrapers as Ecological Traps of the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae): Preliminary Observations Kenneth D. Frank & Gregory W. Cowper Abstract Since its introduction to North America from Asia in 2014, the spotted lanternfly has emerged as a pest…

  • Urban Observation: Mute Swan in Leicester

    Urban Observation: Mute Swan in Leicester

    December 26, 2022

    Check out this Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) sauntering about the busy streets of Leicester! A swan casually walking down Aylestone Road, never seen that before! #Leicester pic.twitter.com/0M5XE0tsh3 — Alex Hannam (@Hannam79) December 13, 2022 This species of swan is native…

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