Evolution in an Urbanizing World
Be sure to check out today’s Urban Evolution talks and posters at SICB! Time Room Title Authors 9:30 – 9:45 AM Lonestar B Nesting near noise and light-filled nights: The fitness consequences of combined sensory pollutants Phillips, J.; Jones, T.; Francis, C. 9:45 – 10:00 AM Lonestar B How does sensory pollution and urban vegetation… Continue Reading →
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.; Wuerthner, V.; Hua, J. 10:30 – 10:45 AM 201-202 Coastal invertebrate larvae vary in their… Continue Reading →
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.; Hall, R. 10:15 – 10:30 AM Brazos Theodolite tracking bottlenose dolphin movement and behavior in… Continue Reading →
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, G.; Place, S.; Hu, D.; Schulz, A.K. 8:15 – 8:30 AM 402-403 Effects of roadway… Continue Reading →
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. 4 8:00 – 8:15 AM 402-403 Creating Interdisciplinary Conservation Tools: A Case Study on Vaccinating… Continue Reading →
The annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is here! From January 3-7 biologists will convene in Austin, Texas to share the latest and greatest from a broad range of research areas. Urban evolution talks have a strong showing at the meeting this year, and we would like to hear about all of… Continue Reading →
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 without your help. We’re looking for contributors who will be attending the meeting to be… Continue Reading →
As habitats become increasingly urbanized, wildlife are exposed to artificial light at night (ALAN). Greater exposure to ALAN can have detrimental effects on animal physiology, such as suppressing components of the host immune system. However, how these changes ultimately affect infectious disease dynamics remains poorly understood. Meredith Kernbach, a PhD candidate at the University of… Continue Reading →
Urbanization is becoming a huge concern and many researchers at SICB 2020 wanted to study the effects it has on the surrounding wildlife. Laura Taylor, an undergraduate student at Trinity University, looked specifically at how urbanization and artificial light at night (ALAN) effected both the physiology and the behavior of anoles. Green anoles (Anolis carolinensis),… Continue Reading →
The decisions that a parent makes or conditions that a parent experiences can influence the survival and fitness of their offspring. These transgenerational effects, in which impacts of the environment on one generation impact subsequent generations, are widespread and can originate with both mothers and fathers. In organisms that make eggs, the environments mothers experience… Continue Reading →
Urban areas are easy to find during the night as they quite literally light up. Urban light pollution disrupts biological processes from gene expression to ecosystem composition across multiple taxa, including birds, insects, mammals, and fishes. With ever-increasing urbanization, understanding the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on urban organisms is crucial to future… Continue Reading →
Heavy metals, such as lead and mercury, are common pollutants in human-affected ecosystems, including cities. These metals can bioaccumulate, or reach high concentrations in exposed organisms, because heavy metals may be stored in some tissues, like fats, and are difficult for organisms to remove from their bodies. High levels of heavy metals have negative impacts… Continue Reading →
The annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is here! From January 3-7 biologists will convene in Austin, Texas to share the latest and greatest from a broad range of research areas. Urban evolution talks have a strong showing at the meeting this year, and we would like to hear about… Continue Reading →
Urbanization is a global form of habitat change that alters native habits and either excludes the animals that live there or forces them to acclimate to novel environments. Altering behavioral strategies can allow individuals to quickly acclimate and successfully colonize urban habitats, reproduce and live within them. In two studies presented at SICB, researchers, Dr…. Continue Reading →
Urban environments are on the rise, bringing with them pollutants from run-off which alters water temperature, chemistry, and hydrology, ultimately driving a decrease in biodiversity. These disturbances can affect the physiological stress response of fishes by increasing or dysregulating their primary stress hormone, cortisol, and potentially altering their reproductive allocation. Arseniy Kolonin, a master’s student at Texas State… Continue Reading →
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