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Moving to the Music: Hedgehog Behavior Changes in Response to Music Festival
We often think about how the construction of new buildings, parking lots, and industrial areas will impact the local wildlife. And, indeed, governments require…
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Landcsape Genetics of Wolverines
The wolverine (Gulo gulo, not the Marvel hero) is the largest terrestrial member of the weasel family. In the early 20th century, wolverines were…
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Systemic Racism Shapes Urban Ecology and Evolution
The rate of urbanization is increasing greatly and with that, comes large human populations. Our population has increased from 6 billion people in 2000…
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Understanding the Distribution of Urban Rat-Associated Pathogens
Pathogens are organisms that cause disease, and zoonotic pathogens are those that can be transmitted between animals and people. Where pathogens are found can…
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Big in the City: Urban Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Bumblebee Body Size and Pollination
Urbanization is arguably one of the most rapid and conspicuous human-driven environmental changes, and fragmentation is one of the most pervasive outcomes of urbanization.…
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CSEE2020: Variation in Pollinator-mediated Plant Reproduction Across an Urbanization Gradient
Recently, Ruth Rivkin shared some of her dissertation work with the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). Urban habitats are more fragmented and…
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CSEE2020: Human Influences on Darwin’s Finches
The Galápagos Islands are renowned for their unique, endemic biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection. In…
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ABS2020: Using Acoustic Signals to Reduce Avian Collisions with Man-made Structures
As areas become more urbanized, fauna are continually exposed to novel anthropogenic structures and are forced to adapt. However, adapting is not always an…
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Some Thoughts on Urban Snakes
I’m partial to the creepy, crawly, scaly, slithering critters. I spend most of my time thinking about urban lizards, but recently started wondering about…
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Cities and Behavioral Adaptations
It’s clear that urbanization alters native animal and plant communities around the world. However, while some organisms become locally extinct as anthropogenic forces change…
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Stress Hormones Do Not Reflect Urbanization in Birds and Other Reptiles
Life in the city is stressful, for humans and wildlife! One of the main physiological traits thought to be impacted by the novel pressures…
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Urbanization Leads to Widespread Genetic Connectivity in Pigeons
Urbanization is rapidly transforming the Earth leading to drastic changes in the local ecological communities and changing the evolutionary dynamics of organisms living within…
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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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Lighting Up Anoles at Night!
This week we are cross-posting (again) from Anole Annals. Check out the original post here, written by Pavitra Muralidhar. How we perceive and interact…
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Tolerance to Urbanization is Widespread in Anoles
This week we are cross-posting from Anole Annals. Check out the original post here. Seven years ago I asked for the help of Anole…