Big City Living: A Global Meta-Analysis Reveals Positive Impact of Urbanization on Body Size in Lizards

Komodo dragons are not ecological analogs of apex mammalian predators

(2020) Tim S. Jessop et al.   ECOLOGY

Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: A global meta-analysis

(2020) Tim S. Doherty et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Global meta-analysis of soil-disturbing vertebrates reveals strong effects on ecosystem patterns and processes

(2019) Max Mallen-Cooper et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Urban bumblebees are smaller and more phenotypically diverse than their rural counterparts

(2019) Helen Eggenberger et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Downsizing for downtown: limb lengths, toe lengths, and scale counts decrease with urbanization in western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis)

(2019) Breanna J. Putman et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Town and Country Reptiles: A Review of Reptilian Responses to Urbanization

(2018) Susannah S French et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Parallel behavioral and morphological divergence in fence lizards on two college campuses

(2018) Amanda Sparkman et al.   PLoS One

Linking locomotor performance to morphological shifts in urban lizards

(2018) Kristin M. Winchell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

(2018) Kaitlyn M. Gaynor et al.   SCIENCE

Bill size variation in northern cardinals associated with anthropogenic drivers across North America

(2018) Colleen R. Miller et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Plasticity in a changing world: behavioural responses to human perturbations

(2018) Joan van Baaren et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Urban Behavioral Ecology: Lessons from Anolis Lizards

(2018) Oriol Lapiedra   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A meta-analysis indicates reduced predation pressure with increasing urbanization

(2018) Csaba Béla Eötvös et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

One strategy does not fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Species interactions limit the occurrence of urban-adapted birds in cities

(2018) Paul R. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Embryos of non-native anoles are robust to urban thermal environments

(2017) Sarin Tiatragul et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Growing in a city: Consequences on body size and plumage quality in an urban dweller, the house sparrow ( Passer domesticus )

(2017) Alizée Meillère et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Archipelagos of the Anthropocene: rapid and extensive differentiation of native terrestrial vertebrates in a single metropolis

(2017) Bethan L. Littleford-Colquhoun et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

Assessing the drivers shaping global patterns of urban vegetation landscape structure

(2017) C. Dobbs et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

How small cities affect the biodiversity of ground-dwelling mammals and the relevance of this knowledge in planning urban land expansion in terms of urban wildlife

(2017) Rafał Łopucki et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Shifting song frequencies in response to anthropogenic noise: a meta-analysis on birds and anurans

(2016) Irene T. Roca et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Bumble bee species exhibit divergent responses to urbanisation in a Southern California landscape

(2016) AMANDA B. SCHOCHET et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Phenotypic shifts in urban areas in the tropical lizardAnolis cristatellus

(2016) Kristin M. Winchell et al.   EVOLUTION

Urbanization and biological invasion shape animal personalities

(2016) Oriol Lapiedra et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Down to Earth: Contextualizing the Anthropocene

(2016) Frank Biermann et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Dining in the City: Dietary Shifts in Indian Rock Agamas across an Urban–Rural Landscape

(2016) Shashank Balakrishna et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Ecological traps: current evidence and future directions

(2016) Robin Hale et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

(2016) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   SCIENCE

Nonrandom filtering effect on birds: species and guilds response to urbanization

(2016) Carmen Paz Silva et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Adaptation and Adaptedness of Organisms to Urban Environments

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

Urban habitats and feeders both contribute to flight initiation distance reduction in birds

(2015) Anders Pape Møller et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

City slickers: poor performance does not deterAnolislizards from using artificial substrates in human-modified habitats

(2015) Jason J. Kolbe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

(2015) Diogo S. M. Samia et al.   Nature Communications

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

Influence of Urbanization on Body Size, Condition, and Physiology in an Urban Exploiter: A Multi-Component Approach

(2015) Alizée Meillère et al.   PLoS One

Repeatability and phenotypic plasticity of fish swimming performance across a gradient of urbanization

(2014) Jay A. Nelson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

Song characteristics track bill morphology along a gradient of urbanization in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)

(2014) Mathieu Giraudeau et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Tree cavity availability across forest, park, and residential habitats in a highly urban area

(2014) Jalene M. LaMontagne et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Quantifying free-roaming domestic cat predation using animal-borne video cameras

(2013) Kerrie Anne T. Loyd et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?

(2013) Ana Catarina Miranda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Distribution of Wild Mammal Assemblages along an Urban–Rural–Forest Landscape Gradient in Warm-Temperate East Asia

(2013) Masayuki Saito et al.   PLoS One

Ecological novelty and the emergence of evolutionary traps

(2013) Bruce A. Robertson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Habitat Differences in Body Size and Shape of the Australian Agamid Lizard,Lophognathus temporalis

(2012) Sebastian Iglesias et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Big city life: carnivores in urban environments

(2012) P. W. Bateman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Spatial Sorting Drives Morphological Variation in the Invasive Bird, Acridotheris tristis

(2012) Cécile Berthouly-Salazar et al.   PLoS One

Stress-Induced Tradeoffs in a Free-Living Lizard across a Variable Landscape: Consequences for Individuals and Populations

(2012) LeiLani D. Lucas et al.   PLoS One

Anthropogenically induced adaptation to invade (AIAI): contemporary adaptation to human-altered habitats within the native range can promote invasions

(2011) Ruth A. Hufbauer et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis

(2011) Spyros Konstantopoulos   Research Synthesis Methods

The impacts of roads and other infrastructure on mammal and bird populations: A meta-analysis

(2010) Ana Benítez-López et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Functional and Numerical Responses of Predators: Where Do Vipers Fit in the Traditional Paradigms?

(2010) Erika M. Nowak et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

What makes an urban bird?

(2010) KARL L. EVANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of urbanization on carnivore species distribution and richness

(2010) Miguel A. Ordeñana et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Lizards as model organisms for linking phylogeographic and speciation studies

(2010) ARLEY CAMARGO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

(2010) B. Sinervo et al.   SCIENCE

Successful city dwellers: a comparative study of the ecological characteristics of urban birds in the Western Palearctic

(2009) Anders Pape Møller   OECOLOGIA

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

(2009) David Moher et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Amphibian ecology and conservation in the urbanising world: A review

(2008) Andrew J. Hamer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

DOES URBANIZATION FILTER BIRDS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR BIOLOGICAL TRAITS?

(2008) SOLÈNE CROCI et al.   CONDOR

Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations

(2008) Gillian N Robb et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Avian productivity in urban landscapes: a review and meta-analysis

(2008) D. E. CHAMBERLAIN et al.   IBIS

Lean birds in the city: body size and condition of house sparrows along the urbanization gradient

(2008) A. Liker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The effect of urbanisation on avian morphology and latitudinal gradients in body size

(2008) Karl L. Evans et al.   OIKOS

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Adaptation from standing genetic variation

(2007) R BARRETT et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION