An animal's morphology influences its ability to perform essential tasks, such as locomoting
to obtain prey or escape predators. While morphology–performance relationships are well …

Oceanic archipelagos have long been treated as a Petri dish for studies of evolutionary and
ecological processes. Like archipelagos, cities exhibit similar patterns and processes, such …

Understanding how morphology affects performance in novel environments and how
populations shift their morphology in response to environmental selective pressures is …

Urbanisation creates novel environments, not only through (abiotic) microhabitat alterations,
but also due to changes in (biotic) inter-and intraspecific interactions. Where sheltering sites …

The morphology-performance-fitness paradigm has long been a guiding principle inspiring
a great deal of laboratory and field studies fundamental to understanding functional …

The 'bigger is better'hypothesis (BIBH) predicts that fitness increases with body size. Eastern
spiny softshell turtles (Apalone spinifera) exhibit sexual size dimorphism (SSD) at maturity …

Simple Summary Invasive species are common on islands and, increasingly so, in urban
ecosystems. They can pose serious ecological and socioeconomic impacts, making …

Understanding the evolution of vertebrate sociality requires comparative data on social
associations across the vertebrate phylogeny. In the case of group‐living lizards (ie species …

Food in the city: the urbanised diets of Rhinella diptycha (Anura: Bufonidae), Hemidactylus
mabouia (Squamata: Gekkonidae), and Page 1 Introduction Understanding a species diet …

We are currently undergoing a period of rapid climate change and habitat transformation
resulting from growing urbanisation. Species with low dispersal abilities cannot track …