The environmental transformations associated with cities are expected to affect organisms at
the demographic, phenotypic, and evolutionary level, often negatively. The prompt detection …

Urbanization is a severe form of habitat fragmentation that can cause many species to be
locally extirpated and many others to become trapped and isolated within an urban matrix …

Urban development is a major cause of habitat loss and fragmentation. Few studies,
however, have dealt with fragmentation in an urban landscape. In this paper, we examine …

Urbanization is a global process that negatively affects ecosystems in various ways. It is
namely an important cause of habitat loss, and animal species inhabiting cities often exhibit …

Phenotypic divergence can occur through both local adaptations and phenotypic plasticity in
response to particular environmental pressures. Holocene land-bridge islands harbor recent …

Dispersal is considered to be a species‐specific trait, but intraspecific variation can be high.
However, when and how this complex trait starts to differentiate during the divergence of …

Evolutionary change has been demonstrated to occur rapidly in human‐modified systems,
yet understanding how multiple components of global change interact to affect adaptive …

Aim Hybrid populations can have intermediate, conserved or transgressive niches,
compared to the parental species. Fine‐scale analyses can improve our understanding of …

Color polymorphic species provide an excellent opportunity to investigate the ecology and
evolution of intraspecific niche differences. The red‐backed salamander, Plethodon …

Background Parallel evolution can occur when common environmental factors exert similar
selective forces on morphological variation in populations in different geographic localities …