Although research performed in cities will not uncover new evolutionary mechanisms, it
could provide unprecedented opportunities to examine the interplay of evolutionary forces in …

As cities expand to accommodate a growing human population, their impacts to natural
ecosystems and the wildlife residing within them increase. Some animals that persist in …

Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans …

Land transformation, including urbanization, is a dominant form of anthropogenic change to
the global environment at the dawn of the Anthropocene epoch. More and more species are …

Synanthropic behavior, ie, the behavior of wild animals that benefit from a shared ecology
with humans, has existed long before the sedentarization of Homo sapiens during the …

Highlights•There are many examples of urban evolution, but few directly test for adaptation.•
Phenotypic and molecular approaches can be used to assess urban adaptation.•Integration …

Urbanization affects key aspects of wildlife ecology. Dispersal in urban wildlife species may
be impacted by geographical barriers but also by a species' inherent behavioural variability …

Abstract Over several decades, Western Europe experienced an outbreak of sylvatic rabies,
eliminated through an EU programme involving large‐scale red fox vaccination campaigns …

When a species colonizes an urban habitat, differences in the environment can create novel
selection pressures. Successful colonization will further lead to demographic perturbations …

The red fox is one of the most adaptable carnivores inhabiting cities. The aim of our study
was to describe the process of Warsaw colonization by the red fox. We focused on:(1) the fox …