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Urban Wildlife Spotlight: The European Starling
The European Starling Sturnus vulgaris Ever had such a fondness for an author, that you wanted to recreate what they wrote, in real life?…
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Urban Wildlife Spotlight: The Monk Parakeet
Monk parakeets Myiopsitta monachus Sometimes referred to as the Quaker parrot due to their quaking vocalizations, the monk parakeet is a small, green…
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Urban Wildlife Spotlight: The Gold Dust Day Gecko
This new feature on the blog will focus on urban introduced species across the globe, giving brief histories of where they came from, how…
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Recap: The Finer Points of Urban Adaptation
In August 2020, I recently published my first first-author paper about urban Anolis lizard claws! I have previously written about my research after doing field…
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Of City and Village Mice: Behavioural Adjustments of Striped Field Mice to Urban Environments
A recent paper in Scientific Reports, “Of city and village mice” by Dammhahn et al (2020), investigated the behavioral responses of striped field mice…
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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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Black Widows and Urban Heat: Can Spiders Cope With Increased Temperatures?
This week’s post comes from Dale Stevens, who tells us about the effects of elevated urban temperatures on black widow spiders. Along with landscape…
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Is your bird feeder clean enough to eat off of? Bird feeders may act as reservoirs for disease transmission
When was the last time you cleaned your bird feeder? Bird feeders are a common sight in the city. For many, they represent a…
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Los Angeles Lizards: Shifts in Morphology Associated with Urban Living
Ecomorphology describes how an animal’s physical traits (called morphology) match how it uses its habitat. It is assumed that ecomorphology results from performance-morphology relationships…
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Defining Urbanization: A New Conceptual Framework
What is urbanization and how do we, as urban evolutionary biologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists, define this metric? We’ve written about this topic before…