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SICB 2019: Do Warm City Nights Accelerate Development and Growth of Butterflies?
A painted lady (Vanessa cardui), a species of butterfly common in urban habitats (Photo credit: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT) The urban heat island effect is a well-known consequence of urbanization whereby temperatures in cities are higher than those in surrounding natural areas.…
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SICB 2019: Female Aggression in Song Sparrows is Higher in Urban Habitats
Urbanization has repeatedly been shown to negatively impact wild animals and is a particular concern for wild birds. Fortunately, some species are able to flexibly alter their behavioral phenotypes and adapt to the busy life in the city. Resource competition…
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SICB 2019: Artificial Light at Night Has Various Effects on Wildlife
Have you ever stopped to look at the city lights at night? Have you ever wondered what impact these lights have on wildlife? Chris Thawley, Zach Forsburg, and Krystie Miner all asked this question in their research on artificial light…
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SICB 2019: How Does Road Salt Affect Monarch Butterfly Life History?
With this gorgeous Tampa weather, the last thing anyone at SICB 2019 wants to think about is snow and ice. Everyone except for Megan Kobiela, a PhD candidate from University of Minnesota, who studies the effects of deicing salt on…
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SICB 2019: What Factors Influence How Ants Cope With High Urban Temperatures?
What consequences does the urban heat island effect have for animals that live in cities? How might increased heat interact with other environmental factors, such as water availability, to affect survival or fitness of animals exposed to these higher temperatures?…
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2018 in Review
Thanks for following Life in the City in our first year. On this last day of 2018 we (the editors: Elizabeth, Kristin, Lindsay) figured we would take a moment to reflect on the first few months of the blog and…
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Museum Collections are Essential to our Understanding of Urban Evolution
From the Natural History Museum in London to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, pretty much every major city has a science museum that houses collections of animals,…
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Urban Lizards on TV!
The Smithsonian Channel and Day’s Edge Productions have put together a fantastic mini-series and a full-length documentary on anole evolutionary research. Episode 7 of the miniseries and part of the full-length movie feature urban lizards and urban evolution research by myself and my collaborators,…
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