Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications

An avian urban morphotype: how the city environment shapes great tit morphology at different life stages

(2021) Aude E. Caizergues et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people

(2021) Simone Des Roches et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolution in Cities

(2021) Sarah E. Diamond et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Praise for diversity: A functional approach to reduce risks in urban forests

(2021) Alain Paquette et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe

(2021) Pablo Salmón et al.   Nature Communications

Mismatch managed? Phenological phase extension as a strategy to manage phenological asynchrony in plant–animal mutualisms

(2020) Rachael L. Olliff‐Yang et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity

(2020) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental evidence that matching habitat choice drives local adaptation in a wild population

(2020) Carlos Camacho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Urban biodiversity management using evolutionary tools

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

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

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Illustrating the importance of meta‐analysing variances alongside means in ecology and evolution

(2020) Alfredo Sánchez‐Tójar et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Urbanization drives an early spring for plants but not for pollinators

(2020) Alessandro Fisogni et al.   OIKOS

The influence of urbanization on morphological traits in the Balsas Basin Whiptail lizard (Aspidoscelis costatus costatus)

(2020) Aldo Gómez-Benitez et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

On the use of the coefficient of variation to quantify and compare trait variation

(2020) Christophe Pélabon et al.   Evolution Letters

The finer points of urban adaptation: intraspecific variation in lizard claw morphology

(2020) Cleo H Falvey et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics

(2020) Marina Alberti et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Rescuing intraspecific variation in human‐impacted environments

(2020) Carolina da Silva Carvalho et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evolutionary dynamics in the Anthropocene: Life history and intensity of human contact shape antipredator responses

(2020) Benjamin Geffroy et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions

(2020) Max R. Lambert et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale

(2020) Kenta Uchida et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution, and global change

(2019) Rebecca S Snell et al.   AoB Plants

Intraspecific trait variation in urban stream ecosystems: toward understanding the mechanisms shaping urban stream communities

(2019) Piatã S. Marques et al.   Freshwater Science

Phenotype-Environment Matching Predicts Both Positive and Negative Effects of Intraspecific Variation

(2019) Christopher J. Dibble et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Niches in the Anthropocene: passerine assemblages show niche expansion from natural to urban habitats

(2019) Emilio Pagani‐Núñez et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Evolutionary and demographic consequences of phenological mismatches

(2019) Marcel E. Visser et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

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

Mate choice in a polluted world: consequences for individuals, populations and communities

(2019) Ulrika Candolin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments

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

Juggling a “junk-food” diet: responses of an urban bird to fluctuating anthropogenic-food availability

(2019) M. Stofberg et al.   URBAN 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

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Evolution of genomic variation in the burrowing owl in response to recent colonization of urban areas

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

Little plant, big city: a test of adaptation to urban environments in common ragweed ( Ambrosia artemisiifolia )

(2018) Amanda J. Gorton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A review of urban wildlife management from the animal personality perspective: The case of urban deer

(2018) T. Honda et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Genetic diversity loss and homogenization in urban trees: the case of Tilia × europaea in Belgium and the Netherlands

(2018) An Vanden Broeck et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Relaxed natural selection contributes to global obesity increase more in males than in females due to more environmental modifications in female body mass

(2018) Wenpeng You et al.   PLoS One

Human influences on the strength of phenotypic selection

(2018) Vincent Fugère et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanisms of Plastic Rescue in Novel Environments

(2018) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Juvenile social experience generates differences in behavioral variation but not averages

(2018) Nicholas DiRienzo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Urbanization erodes niche segregation in Darwin's finches

(2018) Luis F. De León et al.   Evolutionary Applications

A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

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

Analyzing eco‐evolutionary dynamics ‐ the challenging complexity of the real world

(2018) Luc De Meester et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Speciation and the City

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

Adaptive changes in sexual signalling in response to urbanization

(2018) Wouter Halfwerk et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Urbanization as a driver for temporal wing-shape variation in Anopheles cruzii (Diptera: Culicidae)

(2018) Laura Cristina Multini et al.   ACTA TROPICA

A review of urban impacts on avian life-history evolution: Does city living lead to slower pace of life?

(2017) Tuul Sepp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Evolution of life in urban environments

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

Ecology of Problem Individuals and the Efficacy of Selective Wildlife Management

(2017) George J.F. Swan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Impacts of Urbanization on Vegetation Phenology over the Past Three Decades in Shanghai, China

(2017) Tong Qiu et al.   Remote Sensing

The ecological importance of intraspecific variation

(2017) Simone Des Roches et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Integrated behavioural and stable isotope data reveal altered diet linked to low breeding success in urban-dwelling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)

(2017) Christopher J. Pollock et al.   Scientific Reports

Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas

(2016) Daniel T. Blumstein   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Multidimensional environmental predictors of variation in avian forest and city life histories

(2016) Philipp Sprau et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The effect of intraspecific variation and heritability on community pattern and robustness

(2016) György Barabás et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How variation between individuals affects species coexistence

(2016) Simon P. Hart et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Density fluctuations represent a key process maintaining personality variation in a wild passerine bird

(2016) Marion Nicolaus et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Understanding and monitoring the consequences of human impacts on intraspecific variation

(2016) Makiko Mimura et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment

(2016) Justin P. Wright 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

The effect of phenotypic variation on metapopulation persistence

(2016) Jean P. Gibert   POPULATION ECOLOGY

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

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

Heritability of fear of humans in urban and rural populations of a bird species

(2016) Martina Carrete et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of Environmental Disturbance on Phenotypic Variation: An Integrated Assessment of Canalization, Developmental Stability, Modularity, and Allometry in Lizard Head Shape

(2015) Marko M. Lazić et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Variation at the DRD4 locus is associated with wariness and local site selection in urban black swans

(2015) Wouter F.D. van Dongen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Urban phenological studies – Past, present, future

(2015) Susanne Jochner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Urban and rural habitats differ in number and type of bird feeders and in bird species consuming supplementary food

(2015) Piotr Tryjanowski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Combined epigenetic and intraspecific variation of theDRD4andSERTgenes influence novelty seeking behavior in great titParus major

(2015) Sepand Riyahi et al.   Epigenetics

Life-history evolution in the anthropocene: effects of increasing nutrients on traits and trade-offs

(2015) Emilie Snell-Rood et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Intraspecific trait variation across scales: implications for understanding global change responses

(2015) Emily V. Moran et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents

(2015) Scott F. Gilbert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

From Individuals to Groups and Back: The Evolutionary Implications of Group Phenotypic Composition

(2015) Damien R. Farine et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Meta-analysis of variation: ecological and evolutionary applications and beyond

(2014) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Individual phenotypic variation reduces interaction strengths in a consumer-resource system

(2014) Jean P. Gibert et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effects of genotypic and phenotypic variation on establishment are important for conservation, invasion, and infection biology

(2013) A. Forsman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Personality Traits and Behavioral Syndromes in Differently Urbanized Populations of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)

(2012) Veronika Bókony et al.   PLoS One

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

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

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The complex analytical landscape of gene flow inference

(2011) Peter B. Marko et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Modeling the consequences of thermal trait variation for the cane toad invasion of Australia

(2010) Jason J. Kolbe et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation

(2010) David W. Pfennig et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Relaxed selection in the wild

(2009) David C. Lahti et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Germ-line mutations, DNA damage, and global hypermethylation in mice exposed to particulate air pollution in an urban/industrial location

(2008) C. Yauk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations

(2007) ANDREW P. HENDRY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY