By transforming landscapes, human activity creates new types of habitats with altered
environmental characteristics that never existed before. As the process of habitat …

There is an urgent need to thoroughly review and comprehend the effects of urbanization on
wildlife in order to understand both the ecological implications of increasing urbanization …

Body condition is assumed to influence an animal's health and fitness. Various non‐
destructive methods based on body mass and a measure of body length have been used as …

Urban habitats and landscapes are markedly different from nonurban “natural” habitats. The
major difference is the transformation of the land, from natural green areas to anthropogenic …

Artificial light at night is a rapidly increasing phenomenon and it is presumed to have global
implications. Light at night has been associated with health problems in humans as a …

The concept of a pace‐of‐life syndrome describes inter‐and intraspecific variation in several
life‐history traits along a slow‐to‐fast pace‐of‐life continuum, with long lifespans, low …

Worldwide, urbanization leads to tremendous anthropogenic environmental alterations,
causing strong selection pressures on populations of animals and plants. Although a key …

Urban sprawl increasingly affects the ecology of natural populations, including host–
microbiota interactions, with observed differences in the gut microbiota between urban and …

Urbanization creates novel environments for wild animals where selection pressures may
differ drastically from those in natural habitats. Adaptation to urban life involves changes in …

Consistent expanding urbanization dramatically transforms natural habitats and exposes
organisms to novel environmental challenges, often leading to reduced species richness …