Category: Urban Environments
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Is urban plant phenology and physiology understudied when it comes to artificial light at night?
Increasing artificial light In recent decades, the urban population has grown exponentially worldwide, with the expectation that the urban population will continue to increase…
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Bottlenose Dolphins’ Adaptations to Noise in Urban Harbours: Shouting, Eavesdropping & Fleeing
Bottlenose Dolphins’ Adaptations to Noise in Urban Harbours: Shouting, Eavesdropping & Fleeing Health risks of urban noise to Bottlenose dolphins Recently, urban sightings of…
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Student Media Highlight: Life in the City mini-documentary
[embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHtOIJrwh8[/embedyt] Our perceptions of wildlife and nature are shaped by the media which highlights. The mold has been set by great figures like David…
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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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New Lit Alert: Uneven biodiversity sampling across redlined urban areas in the United States
Uneven biodiversity sampling across redlined urban areas in the United States Diego Ellis-Soto, Melissa Chapman, Dexter H Locke Abstract Citizen science data has rapidly…
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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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Social-Ecological Frameworks and What the Future May Hold
“There are ecologists in urban areas, and then there are urban ecologists” – Dr. Chris Schell This point made by my advisor (Dr. Christopher…
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What’s Missing in Urban Ecology?
Urban ecology, although a burgeoning field, is becoming massive. In this field, there is much to think about when developing a question investigating the…
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Ecological Gentrification
What is ecological gentrification? Ecological gentrification, also commonly referred to as green or environmental gentrification, is the process of increasing green infrastructure in urban…