We’ve done our best to stay on top of new literature in the field, but we’re only human! If we missed something, let us know, or if you are a contributor, feel free to add abstracts of new literature that we missed – just make sure you tag the category “New Lit Abstracts”.
2022
- Modelling the spread of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly (12/30/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Skyscrapers as Ecological Traps of the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae): Preliminary Observations (12/28/2022)
- Urban Coyote Dens in Edmonton, Canada (12/23/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Urban-rural gradients: how landscape changes drive adaptive evolution of plant competitive traits (12/16/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Cryptic eco-evolutionary feedback in the city: Urban evolution of prey dampens the effect of urban evolution of the predator (12/6/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Unexpected dispersal of Australian brush-turkeys (Alectura lathami) in an urban landscape (11/24/2022)
- Urbanization and the Avian Endocrine System (11/18/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Activity patterns and behavior of Myocastor coypus in a gated community in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (Argentina) (11/3/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Artificial light at night alters diurnal and nocturnal behavior and physiology in green anole lizards (10/26/2022)
- New Lit Alert: A global meta-analysis reveals higher variation in breeding phenology in urban birds than in their non-urban neighbours (10/1/2022)
- Meta-analysis of Urban Bird Phenology (9/28/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Comfortably Numb? Regional Differences in the Relationship Between Indices of Urbanization and a Stress Indicator in Eastern Gray Squirrels (9/23/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Urbanization drives adaptive evolution in a Neotropical bird (9/19/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Effects of urbanization on the trophic niche of the brown anole, a widespread invasive lizard (9/16/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Urban evolution of thermal physiology in a range-expanding, mycophagous fruit fly, Drosophila tripunctata (9/8/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Fast-paced city life? Tempo and mode of phenotypic changes in urban birds from Switzerland (8/30/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Natural and anthropogenic landscape factors shape functional connectivity of an ecological specialist in urban Southern California (8/26/2022)
- New Lit Alert: The public health implications of gentrification: tick-borne disease risks for communities of color (8/24/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Rock Refuges Are Strongly Associated with Increased Urban Occupancy in the Western Fence Lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis (8/22/2022)
- Do hurricanes rock lizards harder in the city? (8/19/2022)
- New Lit Alert: The impact of urbanization on outcrossing rate and population genetic variation in the native wildflower, Impatiens capensis (8/15/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Harnessing plant-microbiome interactions for bioremediation across a freshwater urbanization gradient (8/11/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Urbanization driving changes in plant species and communities – A global view (8/8/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Plenty of rooftops with few neighbours occupied by young breeding Yellow-legged Gulls (Larus michahellis): does this occur at the expense of their health condition? (8/3/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Coping with novelty across an urban mosaic: Provisioning latency increases closer to roads and is associated with species-specific reproductive success in two urban adapters (8/1/2022)
- CityShape: How Urban Environments Have Shaped the Toes of Puerto Rican Crested Anoles (7/27/2022)
- New Lit Alert: There must bee a better way: A review of published urban bee literature and suggested topics for future study (7/25/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Urban rendezvous along the seashore: Ports as Darwinian field‐labs for studying marine evolution in the Anthropocene (7/22/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Native Lizards Living in Brazilian Cities: Effects of Developmental Environments on Thermal Sensitivity and Morpho-Functional Associations of Locomotion (7/19/2022)
- New Lit Alert: It Is a Wild World in the City: Urban Wildlife Conservation and Communication in the Age of COVID-19 (7/12/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Genetic patterns reveal differences between the invasion processes of common ragweed in urban and non-urban ecosystems (7/11/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Oriented migratory flight at night: Consequences of nighttime light pollution for monarch butterflies (5/19/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Nesting Site and Plumage Color Are the Main Traits Associated with Bird Species Presence in Urban Areas (5/13/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Habitat provision is a major driver of native bird communities in restored urban forests (5/11/2022)
- New Lit Alert: The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions (5/9/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Urban-adapted Mammal Species Have More Known Pathogens (5/5/2022)
- New Lit Alert: A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits (5/3/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle (5/2/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape (3/28/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Cat colonies and flight initiation distances of urban birds: Dealing with conflicting sources of citizen wellbeing (3/18/2022)
- Urban Evolution Goes Global: Main findings from the Global Urban Evolution Project (3/17/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Downtown diet: a global meta-analysis of increased urbanization on the diets of vertebrate predators (3/15/2022)
- New Lit Alert: A Theory of City Biogeography and the Origin of Urban Species (3/11/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Connectivity in the Urban Landscape (2015–2020): Who? Where? What? When? Why? and How? (3/7/2022)
- Parallel Evolution of Melanism in Urban Squirrels (3/2/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Variation in hematological indices, oxidative stress, and immune function among male Song Sparrows from rural and low-density urban habitats (2/21/2022)
- New Lit Alert: Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape (2/3/2022)
- New Lit Alert: No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations (1/28/2022)
- Top Urban Evolution Papers of 2021 (1/19/2022)
2021
- A New Hope for Urban Pit Building Insects (12/20/2021)
- Is Plastic Always Fantastic? Selection on Thermal Plasticity in Urban Anoles (12/7/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review (11/22/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Recent spread of blue tits into the Barcelona urban environment: morphological differences and the role of balanced dispersal (11/19/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Bioindicator snake shows genomic signatures of natural and anthropogenic barriers to gene flow (11/2/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications (11/1/2021)
- Urbanisation Exposes Birds to Metal Pollution (10/29/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Urbanization extends flight phenology and leads to local adaptation of seasonal plasticity in Lepidoptera (10/26/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Consistency and plasticity of risk-taking behaviour towards humans at the nest in urban and forest great tits, Parus major (10/26/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Growing up in a new world: trait divergence between rural, urban, and invasive populations of an amphibian urban invader (10/25/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Does melanin-based plumage coloration reflect health status of free-living birds in urban environments? (10/22/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Age-Related Variability of the Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) Song in Natural and Urban Environments (10/22/2021)
- New Lit Abstract: De Novo Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Potential Thermal Adaptation Mechanisms in the Cicada Hyalessa fuscata (10/21/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Genetic differentiation in pesticide resistance between urban and rural populations of a nontarget freshwater keystone interactor, Daphnia magna (10/21/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Urbanization processes drive divergence at the major histocompatibility complex in a common waterbird (10/20/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Cryptic eco-evolutionary feedback in the city: urban evolution of prey dampens the effect of urban evolution of the predator (10/19/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Replicated, urban-driven exposure to metallic trace elements in two passerines (10/18/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Niche lability mitigates the impact of invasion but not urbanization (10/17/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Invasion success and tolerance to urbanization in birds (10/17/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Species diversity, distribution and habitat utilization of urban wildlife in a megacity of Bangladesh (9/17/2021)
- Moving to the City: Morphology and Performance in Introduced Urban Lizards (7/9/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Moving to the city: testing the implications of morphological shifts on locomotor performance in introduced urban lizards (6/19/2021)
- New Lit Alert: What is known – and not known – about acoustic communication in an urban soundscape (6/18/2021)
- City Lizards Hold Their Footing Against a Category 5 Hurricane (6/18/2021)
- Genomic Urban Adaptation in a Common Bird Across Europe (6/4/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Urban Roosts: Use of Buildings by Florida Bonneted Bats (5/22/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Urban evolution of invasive species (5/13/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Living in discarded containers: spiders explore a new niche created by littering in urban woodlands (5/11/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards (5/10/2021)
- New Research: Early Life Experience Influences Dispersal in Coyotes (Canis latrans) (5/7/2021)
- Urban Landscape Genetics: Are Biologists Keeping Up with the Pace of Urbanization? (4/30/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild (4/26/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Phenotypic response to a major hurricane in Anolis lizards in urban and forest habitats (4/23/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Fine scale genetic structure in fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) along a rural‑to‑urban gradient (4/23/2021)
- New Lit Alert: Urban living influences the nesting success of Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos Islands (4/23/2021)
- Urban Lizards Like it Hot (and their genes may tell us why) (2/26/2021)
- How to Study Urban Speciation (2/5/2021)
- Recap: The Finer Points of Urban Adaptation (1/29/2021)
- Incorporating Human Society into Urban Ecology (1/6/2021)
2020
- Genomic Analysis Highlights Cognition in Urban Burrowing Owls (12/15/2020)
- Of City and Village Mice: Behavioural Adjustments of Striped Field Mice to Urban Environments (12/8/2020)
- Little Urban Dragons (11/17/2020)
- Marine Habitats in Urban Ecosystems (11/10/2020)
- Urban Foxes on the Prowl: Urbanization Leads to Differences in Red Fox Skull Shape (10/27/2020)
- Urban Tolerance is Predicted by Brain Size and Behavioral Flexibility (10/6/2020)
- A Global Analysis of Urban Reptiles (9/29/2020)
- Moving to the Music: Hedgehog Behavior Changes in Response to Music Festival (9/22/2020)
- Landcsape Genetics of Wolverines (9/14/2020)
- Systemic Racism Shapes Urban Ecology and Evolution (9/8/2020)
- Understanding the Distribution of Urban Rat-Associated Pathogens (9/1/2020)
- Big in the City: Urban Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Bumblebee Body Size and Pollination (8/25/2020)
- CSEE2020: Variation in Pollinator-mediated Plant Reproduction Across an Urbanization Gradient (8/18/2020)
- CSEE2020: Human Influences on Darwin’s Finches (8/11/2020)
- ABS2020: Using Acoustic Signals to Reduce Avian Collisions with Man-made Structures (8/4/2020)
- Some Thoughts on Urban Snakes (7/7/2020)
- Cities and Behavioral Adaptations (6/30/2020)
- Stress Hormones Do Not Reflect Urbanization in Birds and Other Reptiles (6/19/2020)
- Urbanization Leads to Widespread Genetic Connectivity in Pigeons (5/26/2020)
- Conserving Urban Biodiversity Needs an Evolutionary Mindset (5/19/2020)
- Lighting Up Anoles at Night! (5/12/2020)
- Tolerance to Urbanization is Widespread in Anoles (5/5/2020)
- Evolution of Rat Crania in an Urban Environment (4/21/2020)
- Anoles Adapt to Beat the Urban Heat (4/15/2020)
- Eastern Gray Squirrel Behavior in Urban Environments (4/7/2020)
- Monarchs, Milkweed, and Metal: Is Roadside Zinc Pollution Harming Butterflies? (3/31/2020)
- Urbanization Influences Pollinator-Mediated Plant Reproduction (3/17/2020)
- Ants in France: Urbanization without Isolation (3/3/2020)
- Toxic Toads in a Toxic World (2/25/2020)
- European Rabbits Have High Gene Flow in German Cities But Not Other EU Cities (2/18/2020)
- Cities’ Shrinking Gene Pools (2/11/2020)
- Urbanization has Varying Effects on the Population Structure of Six Bird Species in Singapore (2/4/2020)
- The Urban Island: Landscape Genetics of Red Foxes in Berlin (1/21/2020)
- SICB 2020: Artificial Light at Night and West Nile Virus in House Sparrows (1/15/2020)
- Urbanization Reduces Genetic Connectivity in Bobcats (1/14/2020)
- SICB 2020: Urban Lizards Lay Lower Quality Eggs (1/8/2020)
- SICB 2020: Artificial Light at Night and Stress (1/6/2020)
- SICB 2020: Lead Pollution of Human Water Supplies Impacts Songbirds (1/5/2020)