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New Book Alert: Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities
A new urban ecology book by Dr. Cylita Guy is out that highlights the work of multiple urban ecologists and evolutionary biologists, including many of our LITC contributors! What can city bees tell us about climate change? How are we…
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New Lit Alert: Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape
Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape Marina Alberti & Tianzhe Wang Abstract Explicit characterisation of the complexity of urban landscapes is critical for understanding patterns of biodiversity and for detecting the underlying social and ecological processes…
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New Lit Alert: No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations
No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations Max Mühlenhaupt, James Baxter-Gilbert, Buyisile G. Makhubo, Julia L. Riley & John Measey Abstract Animals are increasingly challenged to respond to novel or rapidly changing habitats…
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Postdoc Opportunity in the Centre for Urban Environments
The Centre for Urban Environments (CUE) at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) seeks applications for a fully-funded one-year CUE Post-doctoral Fellowship. The topic is open to studies on urban environments on any topic in the natural sciences, or research…
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Top Urban Evolution Papers of 2021
Humans are increasingly a dominant driver of evolutionary change within populations. Since its inception, the Life in the City Blog has brilliantly shown that some of the most stunning examples of human caused evolution relates to how urbanization affects species’…
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SICB 2022!
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology is gearing up for their annual meeting next week. And just like previous years, there are some amazing urban talks and posters that we want to highlight here! But we can’t do it…
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A New Hope for Urban Pit Building Insects
A pit-fall is only as good as the location is deployed. Cities can provide large shaded areas with a layer of soil suitable for trap building. Check out our blog to find out how Wormlion larvae use walls to deploy…
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New Book: Urban Ecosystem Justice
A new book of interest to those working in urban ecosystems! It looks pretty interesting and I’m eager to dig into it a bit more. Here’s a summary from the author, Scott Kellogg: Merging together the fields of urban ecology,…
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