Author: Elizabeth Carlen
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Novel Methods For Capturing American White Ibises In Urban Areas
Many urban wildlife biologists face unique challenges when trying to capture their study organisms. Traditional methods that are used in remote areas are often…
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Urbanization is Correlated with Higher Cholesterol Levels in American Crows
Along with the altered landscape, urban organisms also encounter novel (anthropogenic) food resources. And while anthropogenic food can be abundant in cities, it is…
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High Lead (Pb) Exposure May Lead to Adaptation in House Sparrows
City life can be difficult for many organisms. Cities are louder, brighter, hotter, and often more contaminated with toxins than nearby less-developed areas. Ever-increasing…
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Evolution 2019: Urbanization Drives Evolution of Darwin’s Finches in the Galápagos
Many of us don’t think of the Galápagos as a place that is urbanized, but as we’ve discussed here on Life in the City…
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Evolution 2019: A Test for Transgenerational Plasticity in the Adaptive Divergence of Acorn Ant Thermal Tolerance Across an Urban-Rural Temperature Cline
Populations are often challenged to live in novel or rapidly changing environments. This is probably most clear in cities where new habitat is being…
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IUWC 2019: Urban Wildlife & Corridors
Suboptimal movement across the urban landscape can lead to injury or death and, thus, has a high fitness cost. Many cities have developed wildlife…
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IUWC 2019: Urban Bats
If you live in a city you may not realize that urban populations of bats are all around you. But Liza Lehrer and Shannon…
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IUWC 2019: Opening Plenary – Collaboration & Conservation, Applications to Urban Wildlife
The International Urban Wildlife Conference kicked off Monday morning in Portland, OR with a Plenary Session titled “Collaboration and Conservation: Applications to Urban Wildlife”…
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International Urban Wildlife Conference 2019 – See you there?
The 2019 International Urban Wildlife Conference will take place in Portland, Oregon from June 2nd-5th. This meeting is a great chance to connect with…
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Defining Urbanization: A New Conceptual Framework
What is urbanization and how do we, as urban evolutionary biologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists, define this metric? We’ve written about this topic before…
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Media Summary: Planet Earth II – Cities
As someone studying animals in cities, I often feel need to justify why it is essential that we understand how organisms utilize and evolve…
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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…
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Tools of the Trade: the Blood Glucose Monitor
One way that animals may adapt to urban environments is by expanding their diet to include anthropogenic food, as discussed in the earlier post…
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Tools of the Trade: the Net Gun
Collecting samples in urban environments can present some challenges (as Matt Combs describes in “The Good, The Bad, and The Smelly” and Jane Remfert…
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Is Artificial Light Changing Pigeon Behavior?
I live in New York City, “city that never sleeps,” where you can get a manicure at 11pm, a haircut at 1am, and a…