How does urbanization affect natural selection?

A Charmantier, T Burkhard, L Gervais… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is one of the most significant contributors to the Anthropocene, and urban
evolutionary ecology has become an important field of research. While it is commonly …

The City as an Evolutionary Hothouse—The Search for Rapid Evolution in Urban Settings

G Perry, T Göttert - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cities are ubiquitous and, though a novel phenomenon by evolutionary standards, provide a
home for many species and exert particularly strong and novel selection pressures on them …

Urbanization as an environmental filter for megacolorful birds

LF Nascimento, PR Guimaraes Jr, J Evans… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The colorfulness of bird plumage plays a crucial role in intraspecific (eg sexual display) and
interspecific ecological interactions (eg camouflage and predation). Consequently, bird …