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Urbanization’s Hidden Pleiotropic Effect on Pigeon Plumage Color and Blood Cholesterol
Some fries left on the ground, a half-eaten sandwich, or some breadcrumbs kindly given by someone on a park bench. Pigeons (Columba livia) in…
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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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Pigeon Feet in the City
If you’ve walked around a city with pigeons, you might have noticed that many of them are missing toes or have deformed feet. These…
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Evolution 2019: Evolution Takes Flight: Population Genetics of Feral Pigeons (Columba livia) in the Northeastern United States
As you may have guessed by now, urbanization changes the natural landscape and this can have consequences for the organisms that live in them.…
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IUWC 2019: Inclusive Urban Ecosystems
Following the plenary at IUWC 2019, this session focused on integrating urban ecology research with community engagement. The speakers here built on some of…
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Tools of the Trade: the Blood Glucose Monitor
One way that animals may adapt to urban environments is by expanding their diet to include anthropogenic food, as discussed in the earlier post…
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Tools of the Trade: the Net Gun
Collecting samples in urban environments can present some challenges (as Matt Combs describes in “The Good, The Bad, and The Smelly” and Jane Remfert…