Urbanization-driven changes in web building and body size in an orb web spider

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Urbanization drives community shifts towards thermophilic and dispersive species at local and landscape scales

(2017) Elena Piano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The heat is on: Genetic adaptation to urbanization mediated by thermal tolerance and body size

(2017) Kristien I. Brans et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations

(2017) Marina Alberti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of life in urban environments

(2017) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Integrating the pace-of-life syndrome across species, sexes and individuals: covariation of life history and personality under pesticide exposure

(2016) Sara Debecker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The contribution of developmental experience vs. condition to life history, trait variation and individual differences

(2016) Nicholas DiRienzo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Plasticity and evolution in correlated suites of traits

(2016) E. K. Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences

(2016) Andrew P. Hendry et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in urbanized landscapes: evolution, species sorting and the change in zooplankton body size along urbanization gradients

(2016) Kristien I. Brans et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Size and Sex-Dependent Shrinkage of Dutch Bees during One-and-a-Half Centuries of Land-Use Change

(2016) Mikail O. Oliveira et al.   PLoS One

Landscape Simplification Constrains Adult Size in a Native Ground-Nesting Bee

(2016) Miles Renauld et al.   PLoS One

The Urban Heat Island and its spatial scale dependent impact on survival and development in butterflies of different thermal sensitivity

(2016) Aurélien Kaiser et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The web repair behaviour of an orb spider

(2015) Eleanor R. Tew et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Adaptation and Adaptedness of Organisms to Urban Environments

(2015) Mark J. McDonnell et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Temperature-size responses match latitudinal-size clines in arthropods, revealing critical differences between aquatic and terrestrial species

(2015) Curtis R. Horne et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does body size predict foraging effort? Patterns of material investment in spider orb webs

(2015) M. Gregorič et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Large orb-webs adapted to maximise total biomass not rare, large prey

(2015) Aaron M. T. Harmer et al.   Scientific Reports

Persistence and survival of the spider Nephila plumipes in cities: do increased prey resources drive the success of an urban exploiter?

(2015) E. C. Lowe et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

Behavioral responses to changing environments

(2014) B. B. M. Wong et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Intra- and inter-specific variation in size and habitus of two sibling spider species (Araneae: Lycosidae): taxonomic and biogeographic insights from sampling across Europe

(2014) Charlène Puzin et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals

(2014) Virginie M. Stevens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence

(2014) Juha Merilä et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Development and growth in synanthropic species: plasticity and constraints

(2014) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Contributions of juvenile and adult diet to the lifetime reproductive success and lifespan of a spider

(2014) Anja Kleinteich et al.   OIKOS

Urbanisation at Multiple Scales Is Associated with Larger Size and Higher Fecundity of an Orb-Weaving Spider

(2014) Elizabeth C. Lowe et al.   PLoS One

Microgeographic adaptation and the spatial scale of evolution

(2014) Jonathan L. Richardson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview

(2013) Andrew Sih   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Short and long-term effects of three neurotoxic insecticides on biological and behavioural attributes of the orb-web spider Alpaida veniliae (Araneae, Araneidae): implications for IPM programs

(2013) Marco A. Benamú et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Heat stress and the fitness consequences of climate change for terrestrial ectotherms

(2013) Joel G. Kingsolver et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The rare large prey hypothesis for orb web evolution: a critique

(2013) William G. Eberhard   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Characterizing behavioural 'characters': an evolutionary framework

(2013) Y. G. Araya-Ajoy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Local and landscape drivers of arthropod abundance, richness, and trophic composition in urban habitats

(2013) Stacy M. Philpott et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed-effect modelling approaches

(2012) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Non-random gene flow: an underappreciated force in evolution and ecology

(2012) Pim Edelaar et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Population structure and dispersal in a patchy landscape: nuclear and mitochondrial markers reveal area effects in the spider Theridion californicum (Araneae: Theridiidae)

(2011) PETER J. P. CROUCHER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Costs of dispersal

(2011) Dries Bonte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Relationships between physiological characteristics and trace metal body burdens of banded garden spiders Argiope trifasciata (Araneae, Araneidae)

(2011) Martin G. Ramirez et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Prey capture in orb weaving spiders: are we using the best metric?

(2011) Todd A. Blackledge   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change

(2011) Jennifer A. Sheridan et al.   Nature Climate Change

Behavioural responses to human-induced environmental change

(2010) Ulla Tuomainen et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Behavior as a Key Component of Integrative Biology in a Human-altered World

(2010) A. Sih et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Nutrient balance affects foraging behaviour of a trap-building predator

(2009) D. Mayntz et al.   Biology Letters

Levels of gene flow among populations of a wolf spider in a recently fragmented habitat: current versus historical rates

(2009) David H. Reed et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Body size-climate relationships of European spiders

(2009) Wiebke Entling et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Web building flexibility of an orb-web spider in a heterogeneous agricultural landscape

(2008) Dries Bonte et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta

(2008) P.-O. Cheptou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA