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Concrete Escape: Increased Wariness of Anoles when Escaping from Cement Walls
This week we are cross-posting from Anole Annals. Check out the original post here. Fig. 1. Anoles perched on various manmade surfaces Lizards in the city are everywhere! Often you see them on buildings, statues, benches and other objects (Fig…
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Evolution in Urban Environments Talk
For those of you who follow us and live in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), I’m giving a talk at the Riverwood Conservancy this Saturday, April 20th at 9:30 am. You can register for the event here. I will be…
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Evolution 2019 – See you there?
The annual Evolution meeting co-sponsored by the Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists, and American Society of Naturalists is coming soon to Providence, Rhode Island this June 21-25th! This meeting usually has a strong representation of…
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Bullies and Underdogs: Species Interactions in Urban Birds
An outstanding question in urban evolutionary biology is what factors influence a species’ success in urban environments. This is a topic we’ve talked about before (check out Urban Adaptation in Mammals) and several other recent papers have tackled this topic.…
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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 and a new paper by Remington Moll et al. titled “What does urbanization actually mean? A…
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City Living in a Nutshell: Urban Ants Acclimate to Higher Temperatures Faster
Evidence for evolution in urban systems is increasing, but a key outstanding question in the field of urban ecology and eco-evolutionary dynamics is whether the ability of individuals to adapt to environmental conditions (plasticity) also evolves and how this process…
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Fieldwork on Urban Private Property: Staying Safe
This is part two of a two part series from Carly Ziter and Karen Dyson, adapted from a recent paper we wrote as a “how to” guide to urban fieldwork on private land. In last week’s post Fieldwork on Urban Private…
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Fieldwork on Urban Private Property: Getting Started
Let’s consider a scenario. You’re designing a new research project, and you realize that for the first time that you (or your students) are going to need access to private property in an urban area to answer your question properly.…
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