Effects of chemical contaminants on the ecology and evolution of organisms a review

PO Samuel, GI Edo, GO Oloni, U Ugbune… - Chemistry and …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Chemical contaminants in the environment have become a growing concern due to their
detrimental effects on the ecology and evolution of organisms. Understanding the impacts of …

Cities of the Anthropocene: urban sustainability in an eco-evolutionary perspective

M Alberti - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cities across the globe are driving systemic change in social and ecological systems by
accelerating the rates of interactions and intensifying the links between human activities and …

Psychoactive pollution suppresses individual differences in fish behaviour

G Polverino, JM Martin, MG Bertram… - … of the Royal …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Environmental contamination by pharmaceuticals is global, substantially altering crucial
behaviours in animals and impacting on their reproduction and survival. A key question is …

Sensitivity ecology and evolution, toxicology organism assessment model in the use of chemical applications for the management of toxic substances

GI Edo, PO Samuel, AN Jikah, E Yousif, PN Onyibe… - Ecological Frontiers, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The sensitivity of organisms to toxic substances is a pivotal facet in ecological and
toxicological research. Understanding differential sensitivity's basis and its evolutionary …

Environmental, individual and social traits of free-ranging raccoons influence performance in cognitive testing

LA Stanton, ES Bridge, J Huizinga… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - journals.biologists.com
Cognitive abilities, such as learning and flexibility, are hypothesized to aid behavioral
adaptation to urbanization. Although growing evidence suggests that cognition may indeed …

Understanding behavioural responses to human‐induced rapid environmental change: a meta‐analysis

RL Gunn, IR Hartley, AC Algar, PT Niemelä, SA Keith - Oikos, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Behavioural responses are often the first reaction of an organism to human‐induced rapid
environmental change (HIREC), yet current empirical evidence provides no consensus …

Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish

G Polverino, U Aich, JA Brand, MG Bertram… - Behavioral …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The global rise of pharmaceutical contaminants in the aquatic environment poses a serious
threat to ecological and evolutionary processes. Studies have traditionally focused on the …

Chronic exposure to a pervasive pharmaceutical pollutant erodes among-individual phenotypic variation in a fish

H Tan, G Polverino, JM Martin, MG Bertram… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical pollution is now recognised as a major emerging agent of global change.
Increasingly, pharmaceutical pollutants are documented to disrupt ecologically important …

Flexible males, reactive females: faecal glucocorticoid metabolites indicate increased stress in the colonist population, dam** with time in males but not in females

EN Surkova, LE Savinetskaya, IS Khropov… - Journal of Comparative …, 2024‏ - Springer
Individuals colonizing new areas at expanding ranges encounter numerous and
unpredictable stressors. Exposure to unfamiliar environments suggests that colonists would …

Human protection drives the emergence of a new co** style in animals

B Sadoul, DT Blumstein, S Alfonso, B Geffroy - PLoS Biology, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Wild animals face novel environmental threats from human activities that may occur along a
gradient of interactions with humans. Recent work has shown that merely living close to …