Urban evolution comes into its own: Emerging themes and future directions of a burgeoning field

Continent-wide effects of urbanization on bird and mammal genetic diversity

(2020) C. Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Widespread genetic connectivity of feral pigeons across the Northeastern megacity

(2020) Elizabeth Carlen et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Urbanization reduces gene flow but not genetic diversity of stream salamander populations in the New York City metropolitan area

(2020) Nicole A. Fusco et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Parallel selection on thermal physiology facilitates repeated adaptation of city lizards to urban heat islands

(2020) Shane C. Campbell-Staton et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Urban biodiversity management using evolutionary tools

(2020) Max R. Lambert et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Growing in the city: urban evolutionary ecology of avian growth rates

(2020) Michela Corsini et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Pedal to the metal: cities power evolutionary divergence by accelerating metabolic rate and locomotor performance

(2020) Lacy D. Chick et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Socio‐Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics in Cities

(2020) Simone Des Roches et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Natural history collections are critical resources for contemporary and future studies of urban evolution

(2020) Allison J. Shultz et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Evidence for the evolution of thermal tolerance but not desiccation tolerance in response to hotter, drier city conditions in a cosmopolitan, terrestrial isopod

(2020) Aaron R. Yilmaz et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Using genetic relatedness to understand heterogeneous distributions of urban rat‐associated pathogens

(2020) Kaylee A. Byers et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Lower bioenergetic costs but similar immune responsiveness under a heatwave in urban compared to rural damselflies

(2020) Nedim Tüzün et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Evolutionary responses of marine organisms to urbanized seascapes

(2020) S. Elizabeth Alter et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Genetic structure across urban and agricultural landscapes reveals evidence of resource specialization and philopatry in the Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica L.

(2020) Kimberly M. Ballare et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Urbanisation is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

(2020) Christopher J. Schell et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2020) Xiaoping Liu et al.   Nature Sustainability

Long‐term urbanization impacts the eastern golden frog ( Pelophylax plancyi ) in Shanghai City: demographic history, genetic structure, and implications for amphibian conservation in intensively urbanizing environments

(2020) Xu Wei et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Dispersal ability predicts spatial genetic structure in native mammals persisting across an urbanization gradient

(2020) Jonathan L. Richardson et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The evolutionary consequences of human–wildlife conflict in cities

(2020) Christopher J. Schell et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Urban heat islands advance the timing of reproduction in a social insect

(2019) Lacy D. Chick et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Climate warming, resource availability, and the metabolic meltdown of ectotherms

(2019) Raymond B. Huey et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments

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

Urban Evolutionary Ecology and the Potential Benefits of Implementing Genomics

(2018) Christopher J Schell   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Patterns of size variation in bees at a continental scale: does Bergmann’s rule apply?

(2018) Maxence Gérard et al.   OIKOS

Urbanization drives genetic differentiation in physiology and structures the evolution of pace-of-life syndromes in the water fleaDaphnia magna

(2018) Kristien I. Brans 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

The evolution of city life

(2018) James S. Santangelo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

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

Speciation and the City

(2018) Ken A. Thompson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Trapped within the city: integrating demography, time since isolation and population-specific traits to assess the genetic effects of urbanization

(2017) André Lourenço et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bumblebee family lineage survival is enhanced in high-quality landscapes

(2017) Claire Carvell et al.   NATURE

Evolution of life in urban environments

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

Global population divergence and admixture of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)

(2016) Emily E. Puckett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptation and Adaptedness of Organisms to Urban Environments

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

Molecular tools and bumble bees: revealing hidden details of ecology and evolution in a model system

(2015) S. Hollis Woodard et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptive evolution in urban ecosystems

(2014) Colin M. Donihue et al.   AMBIO

Hierarchical Genetic Analysis of German Cockroach (Blattella germanica) Populations from within Buildings to across Continents

(2014) Edward L. Vargo et al.   PLoS One

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

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

(2007) D. Goulson et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Evolutionary change in human-altered environments

(2007) THOMAS B. SMITH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY