Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments

T Caspi, JR Johnson, MR Lambert, CJ Schell… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Plasticity-led evolution is central to evolutionary theory. Although challenging to study in
nature, this process may be particularly apparent in novel environments such as cities. We …

[HTML][HTML] Traits shaping urban tolerance in birds differ around the world

MHC Neate-Clegg, BA Tonelli, C Youngflesh, JX Wu… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
As human density increases, biodiversity must increasingly co-exist with urbanization or face
local extinction. Tolerance of urban areas has been linked to numerous functional traits, yet …

Urbanization, climate and species traits shape mammal communities from local to continental scales

JD Haight, SJ Hall, M Fidino… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Human-driven environmental changes shape ecological communities from local to global
scales. Within cities, landscape-scale patterns and processes and species characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] Food taboos and animal conservation: a systematic review on how cultural expressions influence interaction with wildlife species

AS Landim, J de Menezes Souza… - Journal of Ethnobiology …, 2023 - Springer
Background Human societies have food taboos as social rules that restrict access to a
particular animal. Taboos are pointed out as tools for the conservation of animals …

Wealth and urbanization shape medium and large terrestrial mammal communities

SB Magle, M Fidino, HA Sander… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Urban biodiversity provides critical ecosystem services and is a key component to
environmentally and socially sustainable cities. However, biodiversity varies greatly within …

Mammals adjust diel activity across gradients of urbanization

T Gallo, M Fidino, B Gerber, AA Ahlers, JL Angstmann… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Time is a fundamental component of ecological processes. How animal behavior changes
over time has been explored through well-known ecological theories like niche partitioning …

COVID-19 highlights the importance of camera traps for wildlife conservation research and management

JD Blount, MW Chynoweth, AM Green… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has altered many aspects of everyday life. For the scientific community, the
pandemic has called upon investigators to continue work in novel ways, curtailing field and …

Downtown diet: a global meta-analysis of increased urbanization on the diets of vertebrate predators

S Gámez, A Potts, KL Mills, AA Allen… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Predation is a fundamental ecological process that shapes communities and drives
evolutionary dynamics. As the world rapidly urbanizes, it is critical to understand how human …

Barriers to building wildlife-inclusive cities: Insights from the deliberations of urban ecologists, urban planners and landscape designers

CAM Kay, AT Rohnke, HA Sander, T Stankowich… - 2022 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Barriers to building wildlife‐inclusive cities: Insights from the deliberations of
urban ecologists, urban planners Page 1 People and Nature. 2021;00:1–9. | 1 …

[HTML][HTML] Parallel evolution of urban–rural clines in melanism in a widespread mammal

BJ Cosentino, JP Gibbs - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Urbanization is the dominant trend of global land use change. The replicated nature of
environmental change associated with urbanization should drive parallel evolution, yet …