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 gained influence in urban ecology and conservation planning, but with limited understanding of how such data reflects social, economic, and political conditions and legacies. Understanding patterns of sampling bias across socioeconomic... Continue Reading →

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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 dynamics in studies of urban ecology and evolution. The field of urban evolution has only recently begun to incorporate the social dynamics of urban communities as an important covariate shaping ecology... Continue Reading →

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New Lit Alert: Oriented migratory flight at night: Consequences of nighttime light pollution for monarch butterflies

Oriented migratory flight at night: Consequences of nighttime light pollution for monarch butterflies Adam F. Parlin, Samuel M. Stratton, and Patrick A. Guerra Abstract We show that light trespass—a form of nighttime light pollution (NLP)—elicits normal daytime clock-mediated migratory behavior in fall monarch butterflies during their night-cycle. In controlled indoor flight simulator studies isolating the... Continue Reading →

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New Lit Alert: Habitat provision is a major driver of native bird communities in restored urban forests

Habitat provision is a major driver of native bird communities in restored urban forests Elizabeth Elliot Noe, John Innes, Andrew D. Barnes, Chaitanya Joshi, Bruce D. Clarkson Abstract 1. Urbanization, and the drastic loss of habitat it entails, poses a major threat to global avian biodiversity. Ecological restoration of urban forests is therefore increasingly vital... Continue Reading →

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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 effect of “urbanization” on a particular species. Even within “urbanization” (which most urban ecologists recognize as just semantics and not a clear definition), there are many quantifications for this (see Moll... Continue Reading →

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New Lit Alert: The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions

The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions Panagiotis Theodorou Abstract Cities are expanding worldwide and urbanisation is considered a global threat to biodiversity. Urban ecology has provided important insights on how urban environmental changes might affect individuals, populations and species; however, we know little about how the ecological impacts of urbanisation alter species interactions. Species... Continue Reading →

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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, Armand Poirier, Peter A. Moran, Paul Jerem, and Wouter Halfwerk Abstract Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter and intra-sexual selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban... Continue Reading →

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New Lit Alert: Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle

Blanding turtle on road

Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle Eric M. McCluskey, Vijay Lulla, William E. Peterman, Kinga M. Stryszowska-Hill, Robert D. Denton, Anthony C. Fries, Tom A. Langen, Glenn Johnson, Stephen W. Mockford & Rusty A. Gonser Abstract Regional conservation efforts should incorporate fine scale landscape... Continue Reading →

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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 neighborhoods. Ecological gentrification originated from a large environmental movement to increase green infrastructure and sustainability efforts in urban cities. Green infrastructure plans can include planting trees to clean the air, planting... Continue Reading →

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Caught on Camera!

The Bronx High School of Science, a New York City high school located near Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx, hosts an unique rich biological environment, in the midst of urban life. To better understand this environment, we, a group of five students under the mentorship of Emily Schmidt, Tracy LaGrassa, and Sunny Corrao, initiated... Continue Reading →

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New Lit Alert: Signs of Urban Evolution? Morpho-Functional Traits Co-variation Along a Nature-Urban Gradient in a Chagas Disease Vector

Signs of Urban Evolution? Morpho-Functional Traits Co-variation Along a Nature-Urban Gradient in a Chagas Disease Vector Ana C. Montes de Oca-Aguilar, Adriana González-Martínez, Raúl Chan-González, Pilar Ibarra-López, Selene Smith-Ávila, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar, and Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdeña Abstract Environmental change (i.e., urbanization) impacts species in contrasting ways, with some species experiencing benefits given their way of life... Continue Reading →

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New Lit Alert: Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape

Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape Mauriel Rodriguez Curras, Emiliano Donadio, Arthur D. Middleton, and Jonathan N. Pauli Abstract To minimize competitive overlap, carnivores modify one of their critical niche axes: space, time, or resources. However, we currently lack rules for how carnivore communities operate in human-dominated landscapes. We simultaneously quantified overlap in the... Continue Reading →

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