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Using Soundscapes to Monitor Urban Diversity
Using soundscapes to monitor urban diversity by Shade Walker Daily sounds of local traffic, the coffee machine pouring, conversations over breakfast, and morning birdsong,…
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Urban Environments – A Hidden Insect Biodiversity Hotspot?
Walid-Dani Kaki “In none of his works did Nature show her originality more than in insects”(Pliny the Elder) In recent years we have seen…
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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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Q&A: Urban Evolutionary Biology
The long-awaited first textbook on urban evolution, Urban Evolutionary Biology, was released this summer. This fantastic text features chapters written by several of the…
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Conserving Urban Biodiversity Needs an Evolutionary Mindset
A variety of species – animals, plants, fungi, microbes – share our cities with us. Some we love, some we hate, and some we…
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What is the “Indoor Biome”?
The tropics of Trinidad… the gleaming ice of the Arctic… as urban scientists, these are field sites we typically forgo for the sake of…
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Los Angeles Lizards: Shifts in Morphology Associated with Urban Living
Ecomorphology describes how an animal’s physical traits (called morphology) match how it uses its habitat. It is assumed that ecomorphology results from performance-morphology relationships…
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IUWC 2019: Attractiveness of Native Plants to Bees and to Gardeners
Aaron Anderson is a Ph.D. student in Horticulture at Oregon State University, where he works in the Garden Ecology Lab. Aaron’s project was inspired…