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New Lit Alert: A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits
A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits Andrew D. Cronin, Judith A. H. Smit, Matías I. Muñoz,…
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New Lit Alert: Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle
Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle Eric M. McCluskey, Vijay Lulla, William E.…
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Urban Evolution Goes Global: Main findings from the Global Urban Evolution Project
As of 2018, 55% of the world’s human population lives in villages, towns, or cities, and this figure grows annually as people increasingly adopt…
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Parallel Evolution of Melanism in Urban Squirrels
Cities offer an unprecedented global experiment for parallel evolutionary change: they similarly differ in several dimensions including climate, land cover, and pollution. Yet few…
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New Lit Alert: Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape
Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape Marina Alberti & Tianzhe Wang Abstract Explicit characterisation of the complexity of urban landscapes…
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New Lit Alert: No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations
No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations Max Mühlenhaupt, James Baxter-Gilbert, Buyisile G. Makhubo, Julia L. Riley…
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Top Urban Evolution Papers of 2021
Humans are increasingly a dominant driver of evolutionary change within populations. Since its inception, the Life in the City Blog has brilliantly shown that…
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A New Hope for Urban Pit Building Insects
A pit-fall is only as good as the location is deployed. Cities can provide large shaded areas with a layer of soil suitable for…
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Is Plastic Always Fantastic? Selection on Thermal Plasticity in Urban Anoles
A recent publication in Nature Communications goes above and beyond in studying how selection on adaptive and/or maladaptive gene expression plasticity may be regulating…
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New Lit Alert: Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review
Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review Swaroop Patankar, Ravi Jambhekar, Kulbhushansingh Ramesh Suryawanshi, and Harini Nagendra Abstract Urbanization poses a…
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New Lit Alert: Recent spread of blue tits into the Barcelona urban environment: morphological differences and the role of balanced dispersal
Recent spread of blue tits into the Barcelona urban environment: morphological differences and the role of balanced dispersal Juan Carlos Senar & Mats Björklund…
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New Lit Alert: Bioindicator snake shows genomic signatures of natural and anthropogenic barriers to gene flow
Bioindicator snake shows genomic signatures of natural and anthropogenic barriers to gene flow Damian C. Lettoof, Vicki A. Thomson, Jari Cornelis, Philip W. Bateman,…
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Urbanisation Exposes Birds to Metal Pollution
Parallel, urban-driven phenotypic changes There is increasing evidence that, for a given species, individuals inhabiting cities often differ from their counterparts outside of cities. Such…
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Moving to the City: Morphology and Performance in Introduced Urban Lizards
Making the best of a difficult year With a group of other students here at Ohio Wesleyan University, I had successfully written a grant…
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City Lizards Hold Their Footing Against a Category 5 Hurricane
Although species will face the challenges of ongoing urbanization and extreme climate events, we know very little about how these disturbances interact. For example,…