Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity

MC Urban, M Alberti, L De Meester, Y Zhou… - Nature climate …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Climate change and urbanization are two of the most prominent global drivers of biodiversity
and ecosystem change. Fully understanding, predicting and mitigating the biological …

Interactive effects of rising temperatures and urbanisation on birds across different climate zones: A mechanistic perspective

P Sumasgutner, SJ Cunningham… - Global Change …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and urbanisation are among the most pervasive and rapidly growing threats
to biodiversity worldwide. However, their impacts are usually considered in isolation, and …

The complexity of urban eco-evolutionary dynamics

M Alberti, EP Palkovacs, SD Roches, LD Meester… - …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans …

A guided tour of phylogenetic comparative methods for studying trait evolution

CK Cornwallis, AS Griffin - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Phylogenetic comparative methods are important tools in biology, providing insights into the
way traits evolve. There are many technical resources describing how these methods work …

Socio‐eco‐evolutionary dynamics in cities

S Des Roches, KI Brans, MR Lambert… - Evolutionary …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between
nature and human society. Characteristics of human society—including culture, economics …

Genome-wide parallelism underlies contemporary adaptation in urban lizards

KM Winchell, SC Campbell-Staton, JB Losos… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Urbanization drastically transforms landscapes, resulting in fragmentation, degradation, and
the loss of local biodiversity. Yet, urban environments also offer opportunities to observe …

Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications

MJ Thompson, P Capilla-Lasheras… - Trends in ecology & …, 2022‏ - cell.com
In the past decade, numerous studies have explored how urbanisation affects the mean
phenotypes of populations, but it remains unknown how urbanisation impacts phenotypic …

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 …

Animal cognition in an urbanised world

VE Lee, A Thornton - Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for
evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present animals with novel problems that …

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 …