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How the GLUE Animation Came About
“How life adapts to cities around the world” is a 5 minute educational animated film created by Sherry An (myself), a science and medical…
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SEEP: Integrating society, ecology, evolution, and plasticity to advance urban evolutionary ecology
In the first SEEP workshop urban evolutionary ecologists discussed collaborations with the network of Long Term Ecological Research Stations (LTER) to integrate human socio-cultural…
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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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How to Catch Squirrels in Cities
Urban fieldwork is its own beast. Sure, compared to remote sites you might have regular access to bathrooms and food but there are different…
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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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Back to the Basics: What is Urban Evolution?
Urban evolution can have different meanings depending on what field you come from. If you are an urban planner, it might mean that urban…
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Fieldwork on Urban Private Property: Staying Safe
This is part two of a two part series from Carly Ziter and Karen Dyson, adapted from a recent paper we wrote as a…
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Fieldwork on Urban Private Property: Getting Started
Let’s consider a scenario. You’re designing a new research project, and you realize that for the first time that you (or your students) are…
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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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What Makes an Urban Habitat?
As a scientist that works in the field of urban evolution I often have to consider, “what makes an urban habitat?” While this seems…
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The Human Side of Urban Evolution: Integrating Identity and Community with Research
As life scientists that choose to study species within a city – habitats that are dominated by stochasticity, ecological traps, and, well, humans –…
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How to Talk to Passersby About Urban Evolution… Without Sounding Crazy
Posted by Ruth Rivkin (PhD candidate at University of Toronto Mississauga) We’ve all been there: You’re hard at work sampling on someone’s lawn, in…
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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…