[HTML][HTML] Urbanization driving changes in plant species and communities–A global view

R de Barros Ruas, LMS Costa, F Bered - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
The urban landscape is becoming the environment most familiar to most of humanity, which
has consequences for society, the environment, and biodiversity. Here, we present a …

Evolution in cities

SE Diamond, RA Martin - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Although research performed in cities will not uncover new evolutionary mechanisms, it
could provide unprecedented opportunities to examine the interplay of evolutionary forces in …

Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

JS Santangelo, RW Ness, B Cohan, CR Fitzpatrick… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined
whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white …

Harnessing plant-microbiome interactions for bioremediation across a freshwater urbanization gradient

AM O'Brien, ZH Yu, C Pencer, ME Frederickson… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization impacts land, air, and water, creating environmental gradients between cities
and rural areas. Urban stormwater delivers myriad co-occurring, understudied, and mostly …

Evolutionary consequences of microbiomes for hosts: impacts on host fitness, traits, and heritability

AM O'Brien, JR Laurich, ME Frederickson - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
An organism's phenotypes and fitness often depend on the interactive effects of its genome
(G h⁢ o⁢ s⁢ t), microbiome (G m⁢ i⁢ c⁢ r⁢ o⁢ b⁢ e), and environment (E). These G× G, G× …

The effect of temperature and invasive alien predator on genetic and phenotypic variation in the damselfly Ischnura elegans: cross-latitude comparison

G Wos, G Palomar, M Marszałek, W Babik… - Frontiers in Zoology, 2023 - Springer
Background Understanding and predicting how organisms respond to human-caused
environmental changes has become a major concern in conservation biology. Here, we …

The flower does not open in the city: evolution of plant reproductive traits of Portulaca oleracea in urban populations

T Fujita, N Tsuda, D Koide, Y Fukano… - Annals of Botany, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The impact of urbanization on plant evolution, particularly the
evolution of reproductive traits, remains largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to …

Leaf functional traits vary in urban environments: influences of leaf age, land-use type, and urban–rural gradient

Y Su, B Cui, Y Luo, J Wang, X Wang… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
An increasing number of studies have focused on the response and adaptation of plants to
urbanization by comparing differences in leaf functional traits between urban and rural sites …

Phenotypic clines in herbivore resistance and reproductive traits in wild plants along an agricultural gradient

H Schroeder, H Grab, K Poveda - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The conversion of natural landscapes to agriculture is a leading cause of biodiversity loss
worldwide. While many studies examine how landscape modification affects species …

Big cities, big bodies: urbanisation correlates with large body sizes and enhanced body condition in African dwarf chameleons (Genus: Bradypodion)

JM Barends, KA Tolley - African Zoology, 2024 - journals.co.za
Urbanisation is a major driver of habitat transformation that alters the environmental
conditions and selective regimes of the habitats where it occurs. For species inhabiting …