Urban heat island conditions experienced by the Western black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus): Extreme heat slows development but results in behavioral accommodations

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

(2018) Maxime Dahirel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

(2017) Elena Piano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extreme developmental synchrony reduces sibling cannibalism in the black widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus

(2016) J. Chadwick Johnson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands

(2016) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fine-Scale Microclimatic Variation Can Shape the Responses of Organisms to Global Change in Both Natural and Urban Environments

(2016) Sylvain Pincebourde et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

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

Climatic warming destabilizes forest ant communities

(2016) S. E. Diamond et al.   Science Advances

Rich lizards: How affluence and land cover influence the diversity and abundance of desert reptiles persisting in an urban landscape

(2015) Jeffrey W. Ackley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Thermal variation, thermal extremes and the physiological performance of individuals

(2015) W. W. Dowd et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The roles of microclimatic diversity and of behavior in mediating the responses of ectotherms to climate change

(2015) H. Arthur Woods et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Urban heat island mitigation strategies and lizard thermal ecology: landscaping can quadruple potential activity time in an arid city

(2015) Jeffrey W. Ackley et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Maternal effects on egg investment and offspring performance in black widow spiders

(2014) J. Chadwick Johnson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature

(2014) Sarah E. Diamond et al.   ECOLOGY

A Continuum of Behavioral Plasticity in Urban and Desert Black Widows

(2014) Rebecca N. Halpin et al.   ETHOLOGY

Black Widows in an Urban Desert: City-Living Compromises Spider Fecundity and Egg Investment Despite Urban Prey Abundance

(2013) J. Chadwick Johnson et al.   AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST

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

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

The future of urban biodiversity research: Moving beyond the ‘low-hanging fruit’

(2013) Mark J. McDonnell et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Urban Heat Island Research in Phoenix, Arizona: Theoretical Contributions and Policy Applications

(2011) Winston T. L. Chow et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change

(2011) Andrew Sih et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The Mean and Variance of Environmental Temperature Interact to Determine Physiological Tolerance and Fitness

(2011) Francisco Bozinovic et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Urban heat islands and landscape heterogeneity: linking spatiotemporal variations in surface temperatures to land-cover and socioeconomic patterns

(2009) Alexander Buyantuyev et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Water Supplementation Affects the Behavioral and Physiological Ecology of Gila Monsters (Heloderma suspectum) in the Sonoran Desert

(2009) Jon R. Davis et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY