Author: Elizabeth Carlen
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Urban Evolution & Art
The piece below was posted in 2018 by A.Z. Andis Arietta a PhD candidate in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale…
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Urban Landscape Genetics: Are Biologists Keeping Up with the Pace of Urbanization?
As we know, the landscape of urban areas is changing rapidly as land is converted from natural to anthropogenic space. Additionally, new technology has…
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Where’s the Restroom?
Earlier this week, the wonderful women over at Women of Fisheries posted about the struggles of going to the bathroom when doing fieldwork on…
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Evolutionary Applications Special Issue: Evolution in Urban Environments
For the past 1.5 years, we (the editors of LITC) have been working to bring together new empirical urban evolution research as well as…
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Urban Copperheads Stay Local: Behavioral Ecology in an Urban and Rural Forest
Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Malle Carrasco-Harris at the International Urban Wildlife Conference (#IUWC2019). Carrasco-Harris has been studying the role…
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Urban Foxes on the Prowl: Urbanization Leads to Differences in Red Fox Skull Shape
Urban areas around the world are an interesting combination of non-native and native species. In London, urban foxes are a common sight and because…
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Moving to the Music: Hedgehog Behavior Changes in Response to Music Festival
We often think about how the construction of new buildings, parking lots, and industrial areas will impact the local wildlife. And, indeed, governments require…
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CSEE2020: Variation in Pollinator-mediated Plant Reproduction Across an Urbanization Gradient
Recently, Ruth Rivkin shared some of her dissertation work with the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). Urban habitats are more fragmented and…
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Cities and Behavioral Adaptations
It’s clear that urbanization alters native animal and plant communities around the world. However, while some organisms become locally extinct as anthropogenic forces change…
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Urbanization Leads to Widespread Genetic Connectivity in Pigeons
Urbanization is rapidly transforming the Earth leading to drastic changes in the local ecological communities and changing the evolutionary dynamics of organisms living within…
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Evolution of Rat Crania in an Urban Environment
This week we are cross-posting from the Ecology & Evolution blog written by Dr. Emily Puckett and Elizabeth Carlen. Check out the original post here. Observations…
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Urbanization has Varying Effects on the Population Structure of Six Bird Species in Singapore
Urban areas are known to be prone to habitat fragmentation. We’ve seen the intense urbanization in New York City lead to the rapid divergence…
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The Urban Island: Landscape Genetics of Red Foxes in Berlin
Urbanization can impact wildlife in different ways, depending on the organism and how it interacts with humans and the built environment. Geographical barriers may…
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2019 in Review
Milestones and more In 2019 we hit a lot of milestones. We turned 1 year old. We were featured in several major news outlets,…
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Pigeon Feet in the City
If you’ve walked around a city with pigeons, you might have noticed that many of them are missing toes or have deformed feet. These…