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Science Meets Activism: Stream ecology in the wake of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
During the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2024 conference, I interviewed Andrea Beverly and Jamie Lau, from Radford University, who are studying…
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Froggystyle: Urbanization and the Evolution of Sexual Signaling in the túngara frog
Next to the crucial trade route of the Panama canal sits Panama city, where an intriguing example of urban evolution has taken place. As…
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How Gull-ible can we be around urban Larus?
The weather on the northern hemisphere is getting warmer which means beach days are approaching. Every beach dweller can confirm that seagulls (Larus sp.)…
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If they can’t hear you, make them smell you…
At the heart of the Amazon rainforest, near the confluence of the Rio Negro and Amazone, lies the metropole Manaus. Nicknamed the Paris of…
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Rats around the rosie: a dance of urbanization and disease
From hantavirus to the plague, rats have long since been reservoirs for a whole host of nasty infectious diseases. They live in our cities…
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Behavioral Differences Among Individuals of Rural and Urban Shrews
In response to human impact on the environment—from increased light, sound, air, and water pollution, to higher levels of interaction with humans—organisms must adapt…
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Salinity, Urbanization, and Genetic Divergence of Killifish
Guest post by Brandon Waldo, Katherine Moore, Sam Bickley, Christopher Anderson, & Moises Bernal. Salinity, Urbanization, and Genetic Divergence of Killifish Coastlines are unique…
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The rapid spread of an urban lichen
Is the urban landscape pushing lichen evolution or is it just providing space for opportunists? Harold Timans The urban environment creates a multitude of…
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Clinging & climbing & claws, oh my: morphology performance in urban lizards
The common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) offers a great opportunity to study how humans are influencing the course of evolution. These lizards have a…
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Are Squirrels More Stressed in Cities?
The ongoing global urban expansion presents resident wildlife with many changes to their environmental structure. A few changes created by anthropogenic growth include habitat…
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Life History of Teenage Mutant Painted Turtles
THE BACKGROUND When Splinter discovered four baby turtles in a New York City sewer, he had no idea what the glowing green goo was…
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Parallel Urban Adaptation from Phenotype to Genotype in Anolis Lizards
Anolis lizards (known as anoles) are models for studying evolution in the wild. Not only do anoles have a history of repeatedly diversifying to…
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Rapid Evolution of Urban Water Dragons
The growing field of urban evolutionary ecology studies the impact of urbanization on its resident species. Often, that involves comparisons between conspecific urban and…
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Top 10 Urban Evolutionary Ecology Papers of 2022
Humans are now the dominant driver of evolution. Most contemporary examples of rapid evolution in nature stem from the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on…
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Modelling the spread of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly
The Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is an invasive plant-hopper pest native to parts of China, first introduced to the United States in Berks County,…