The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

COVID-19 and African Americans

(2020) Clyde W. Yancy   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

COVID-19 exacerbating inequalities in the US

(2020) Aaron van Dorn et al.   LANCET

The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science

(2020) Bas Hofstra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How conservation will be impacted in the COVID-19 pandemic

(2020) Dinesh Neupane   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Why inequality could spread COVID-19

(2020) Faheem Ahmed et al.   Lancet Public Health

Time Is Not Money: Income Is More Important Than Lifestage for Explaining Patterns of Residential Yard Plant Community Structure and Diversity in Baltimore

(2020) Meghan Avolio et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation

(2020) Richard T. Corlett et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Socio‐Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics in Cities

(2020) Simone Des Roches et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Urban socioeconomic inequality and biodiversity often converge, but not always: A global meta-analysis

(2020) Evan R. Kuras et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

City sanitation and socioeconomics predict rat zoonotic infection across diverse neighbourhoods

(2020) Maureen H. Murray et al.   Zoonoses and Public Health

High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

(2020) Xiaoping Liu et al.   Nature Sustainability

Environmental justice and drinking water quality: are there socioeconomic disparities in nitrate levels in U.S. drinking water?

(2019) Laurel A. Schaider et al.   Environmental Health

How to make the next Green New Deal work

(2019) Edward B. Barbier   NATURE

Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure

(2019) Christopher W. Tessum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The relationship between wealth and biodiversity: A test of the Luxury Effect on bird species richness in the developing world

(2019) Dan E. Chamberlain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

“They’re always there”: resident experiences of living with rats in a disadvantaged urban neighbourhood

(2019) Kaylee A. Byers et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Environmental cooling provided by urban trees under extreme heat and cold waves in U.S. cities

(2019) Chenghao Wang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective

(2019) Gregory N. Bratman et al.   Science Advances

Social equity in urban resilience planning

(2019) Sara Meerow et al.   Local Environment

Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments

(2019) Lindsay S. Miles et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex

(2019) Frank Edwards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Urbanization reduces genetic connectivity in bobcats ( Lynx rufus ) at both intra– and interpopulation spatial scales

(2019) Christopher P. Kozakiewicz et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Urbanization impacts apex predator gene flow but not genetic diversity across an urban‐rural divide

(2019) Daryl R. Trumbo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The luxury effect beyond cities: bats respond to socioeconomic variation across landscapes

(2019) Han Li et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Topic choice contributes to the lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists

(2019) Travis A. Hoppe et al.   Science Advances

Rodent assemblage structure reflects socioecological mosaics of counter-urbanization across post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans

(2019) Anna C. Peterson et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Linking yard plant diversity to homeowners’ landscaping priorities across the U.S

(2019) Josep Padullés Cubino et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Biodiversity and socioeconomics in the city: a review of the luxury effect

(2018) Misha Leong et al.   Biology Letters

Re-establishing Justice as a Pillar of Ecological Economics Through Feminist Perspectives

(2018) Phoebe Spencer et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

First stewards: ecological outcomes of forest and wildlife stewardship by indigenous peoples of Wisconsin, USA

(2018) Donald M. Waller et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Housing Market Activity is Associated with Disparities in Urban and Metropolitan Vegetation

(2018) K. Arthur Endsley et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

City life on fast lanes: urbanization induces an evolutionary shift towards a faster life style in the water flea Daphnia

(2018) Kristien I. Brans et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The relationship between urban forests and race: A meta-analysis

(2018) Shannon Lea Watkins et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study

(2018) Jacob Bor et al.   LANCET

The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis

(2018) Ed Gerrish et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Inequities in the quality of urban park systems: An environmental justice investigation of cities in the United States

(2018) Alessandro Rigolon et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Getting ahead of the curve: cities as surrogates for global change

(2018) Eleanor C. Lahr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of thermal tolerance and its fitness consequences: parallel and non-parallel responses to urban heat islands across three cities

(2018) Sarah E. Diamond et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis

(2018) Lara A. Roman et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Climate–carbon cycle uncertainties and the Paris Agreement

(2018) P. B. Holden et al.   Nature Climate Change

Exploring the relationship between residential segregation and thermal inequity in 20 U.S. cities

(2018) Bruce Coffyn Mitchell et al.   Local Environment

A new framework for urban ecology: An integration of proximate and ultimate responses to anthropogenic change

(2018) Jenny Q Ouyang et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

(2018) L. Ruth Rivkin et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Land use and socio-economic determinants of urban forest structure and diversity

(2018) Chao Fan et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Nonnative plants reduce population growth of an insectivorous bird

(2018) Desirée L. Narango et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microgeographic differentiation in thermal performance curves between rural and urban populations of an aquatic insect

(2017) Nedim Tüzün et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Using fine-scale spatial genetics of Norway rats to improve control efforts and reduce leptospirosis risk in urban slum environments

(2017) Jonathan L. Richardson et al.   Evolutionary Applications

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

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

Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions

(2017) Zinzi D Bailey et al.   LANCET

Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities

(2017) Megan M. Wheeler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

Collaborative environmental governance: Achieving collective action in social-ecological systems

(2017) Örjan Bodin   SCIENCE

Evolution of life in urban environments

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

Urbanization and Disease Emergence: Dynamics at the Wildlife–Livestock–Human Interface

(2017) James M. Hassell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Social equity and urban nature conservation

(2017) Jensen Reitz Montambault et al.   Conservation Letters

Population genetics, community of parasites, and resistance to rodenticides in an urban brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) population

(2017) Amélie Desvars-Larrive et al.   PLoS One

Exoskeletons and economics: indoor arthropod diversity increases in affluent neighbourhoods

(2016) Misha Leong et al.   Biology Letters

Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities

(2016) Timon McPhearson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Racial isolation and exposure to airborne particulate matter and ozone in understudied US populations: Environmental justice applications of downscaled numerical model output

(2016) Mercedes A. Bravo et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Spatial patterns of air pollutants and social groups: a distributive environmental justice study in the phoenix metropolitan region of USA

(2016) Ronald Pope et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Population genomics of the Anthropocene: urbanization is negatively associated with genome-wide variation in white-footed mouse populations

(2016) Jason Munshi-South et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Evidence of evolutionary homogenization of bird communities in urban environments across Europe

(2016) Federico Morelli et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A complex landscape of inequity in access to urban parks: A literature review

(2016) Alessandro Rigolon   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

People, landscape, and urban heat island: dynamics among neighborhood social conditions, land cover and surface temperatures

(2016) Ganlin Huang et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Lead Contamination in Flint — An Abject Failure to Protect Public Health

(2016) David C. Bellinger   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

The genomic landscape of rapid repeated evolutionary adaptation to toxic pollution in wild fish

(2016) N. M. Reid et al.   SCIENCE

Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research

(2016) Linda Shi et al.   Nature Climate Change

Children’s Blood Lead Seasonality in Flint, Michigan (USA), and Soil-Sourced Lead Hazard Risks

(2016) Mark Laidlaw et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Dynamic heterogeneity: a framework to promote ecological integration and hypothesis generation in urban systems

(2016) S. T. A. Pickett et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Urban mesopredator distribution: examining the relative effects of landscape and socioeconomic factors

(2015) S. B. Magle et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

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

Biodiversity in cities needs space: a meta-analysis of factors determining intra-urban biodiversity variation

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Landscapes of thermal inequity: disproportionate exposure to urban heat in the three largest US cities

(2015) Bruce C Mitchell et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Principles of environmental justice and pro-environmental action: A two-step process model of moral anger and responsibility to act

(2015) Gerhard Reese et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Ecological connectivity research in urban areas

(2015) Scott LaPoint et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Urbanization, oxidative stress and inflammation: a question of evolving, acclimatizing or coping with urban environmental stress

(2015) Caroline Isaksson   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

REVIEW: Identifying, preventing and mitigating ecological traps to improve the management of urban aquatic ecosystems

(2015) Robin Hale et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

An Ecology for Cities: A Transformational Nexus of Design and Ecology to Advance Climate Change Resilience and Urban Sustainability

(2015) Daniel Childers et al.   Sustainability

Trees Grow on Money: Urban Tree Canopy Cover and Environmental Justice

(2015) Kirsten Schwarz et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive evolution in urban ecosystems

(2014) Colin M. Donihue et al.   AMBIO

An Ecology of Prestige in New York City: Examining the Relationships Among Population Density, Socio-economic Status, Group Identity, and Residential Canopy Cover

(2014) J. Morgan Grove et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Urban ecology: advancing science and society

(2014) Colby J Tanner et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’

(2014) Jennifer R. Wolch et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Toward an Empirical Analysis of Justice in Ecosystem Governance

(2014) Thomas Sikor et al.   Conservation Letters

Facing the diversity crisis in climate science

(2014) Adam R. Pearson et al.   Nature Climate Change

From environmental to climate justice: climate change and the discourse of environmental justice

(2014) David Schlosberg et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

The good, the bad, and the interested: how historical demographics explain present-day tree canopy, vacant lot and tree request spatial variability in New Haven, CT

(2014) Dexter H. Locke et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Rat sightings in New York City are associated with neighborhood sociodemographics, housing characteristics, and proximity to open public space

(2014) Michael G. Walsh   PeerJ

Oxidative stress of House Sparrow as bioindicator of urban pollution

(2013) Amparo Herrera-Dueñas et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Heat Risk–Related Land Cover in Relation to Residential Segregation

(2013) Bill M. Jesdale et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Race, socioeconomic status, and air pollution exposure in North Carolina

(2013) Simone C. Gray et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Eurasian Dipper Eggs Indicate Elevated Organohalogenated Contaminants in Urban Rivers

(2013) Christy A. Morrissey et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Urban ecology in a developing world: why advanced socioecological theory needs Africa

(2013) Melissa R McHale et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The luxury of vegetation and the legacy of tree biodiversity in Los Angeles, CA

(2013) Lorraine Weller Clarke et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban land use limits regional bumble bee gene flow

(2013) Shalene Jha et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rats, Cities, People, and Pathogens: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Literature Regarding the Ecology of Rat-Associated Zoonoses in Urban Centers

(2013) Chelsea G. Himsworth et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Urban Ecology in Cape Town: South African Comparisons and Reflections

(2012) Sarel S. Cilliers et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

A cohort study relating urban green space with mortality in Ontario, Canada

(2012) Paul J. Villeneuve et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Urban landscape genetics: canopy cover predicts gene flow between white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) populations in New York City

(2012) JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Predictors of the distribution of street and backyard vegetation in Montreal, Canada

(2012) Thi-Thanh-Hien Pham et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Particulate Air Pollution and Socioeconomic Position in Rural and Urban Areas of the Northeastern United States

(2011) Paul J. Brochu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Moving Environmental Justice Indoors: Understanding Structural Influences on Residential Exposure Patterns in Low-Income Communities

(2011) Gary Adamkiewicz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Urban biodiversity: patterns and mechanisms

(2011) Stanley H. Faeth et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The conservation value of residential yards: linking birds and people

(2011) Susannah B. Lerman et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Ecosystem services and urban heat riskscape moderation: water, green spaces, and social inequality in Phoenix, USA

(2011) G. Darrel Jenerette et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Coupling biogeochemical cycles in urban environments: ecosystem services, green solutions, and misconceptions

(2011) Diane E Pataki et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Urban habituation, ecological connectivity and epidemic dampening: the emergence of Hendra virus from flying foxes (Pteropus spp.)

(2011) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome-Scale Phylogenetic Analyses of Chikungunya Virus Reveal Independent Emergences of Recent Epidemics and Various Evolutionary Rates

(2010) S. M. Volk et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

When do domestic dogs, Canis familiaris, start to understand human pointing? The role of ontogeny in the development of interspecies communication

(2009) Nicole R. Dorey et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effects of urbanization on plant species diversity in central Arizona

(2009) Jason S Walker et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

Double burden of deprivation and high concentrations of ambient air pollution at the neighbourhood scale in Montreal, Canada

(2009) Dan L. Crouse et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE