How urbanization affects sexual communication

Traffic noise drives an immediate increase in call pitch in an urban frog

(2021) V. Higham et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Anthropogenic noise and atmospheric absorption of sound induce amplitude shifts in the songs of Southern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon musculus)

(2021) Guilherme Sementili-Cardoso et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

How Should We Study Urban Speciation?

(2021) Wouter Halfwerk   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Changes in gene expression during female reproductive development in a color polymorphic insect

(2020) Beatriz Willink et al.   EVOLUTION

Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology

(2020) Davide M. Dominoni et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Increased attenuation and reverberation are associated with lower maximum frequencies and narrow bandwidth of bird songs in cities

(2020) Jennifer N. Phillips et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Genomic evidence for parallel adaption to cities

(2020) Colin J. Garroway et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Reproduction under light pollution: maladaptive response to spatial variation in artificial light in a glow-worm

(2020) Christina Elgert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Black widows on an urban heat island: extreme heat affects spider development and behaviour from egg to adulthood

(2020) J. Chadwick Johnson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Singing in a silent spring: Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID-19 shutdown

(2020) Elizabeth P. Derryberry et al.   SCIENCE

Noise pollution: acute noise exposure increases susceptibility to disease and chronic exposure reduces host survival

(2020) Numair Masud et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Environmental Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical Exposure: Role in Non-Communicable Diseases

(2020) Manoj Kumar et al.   Frontiers in Public Health

Territory Quality Predicts Avian Vocal Performance Across an Urban-Rural Gradient

(2020) Jennifer N. Phillips et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Molecular evidence supports a genic capture resolution of the lek paradox

(2019) Robert J. Dugand et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanistic, ecological, and evolutionary consequences of artificial light at night for insects: review and prospective

(2019) Emmanuel Desouhant et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Mate choice in a changing world

(2019) Ulrika Candolin   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

How sexual and natural selection shape sexual size dimorphism: Evidence from multiple evolutionary scales

(2019) Bethan L. Littleford‐Colquhoun et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic noise and the bioacoustics of terrestrial invertebrates

(2019) Maggie Raboin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

Evidence for differing trajectories of songs in urban and rural populations

(2019) Dana L Moseley et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Sex in the city: sexual selection and urban colonization in passerines

(2019) Maider Iglesias-Carrasco et al.   Biology Letters

Temperature drives pre‐reproductive selection and shapes the biogeography of a female polymorphism

(2019) Erik I. Svensson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disruption of male mating strategies in a chemically compromised environment

(2019) Michael G. Bertram et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A Global Perspective on Firefly Extinction Threats

(2019) Sara M Lewis et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Carotenoid- but not melanin-based plumage coloration is negatively related to metal exposure and proximity to the road in an urban songbird

(2019) Melissa L. Grunst et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of artificial light on the larvae of the firefly Lamprigera sp. in an urban city park, Peninsular Malaysia

(2019) Samantha Wanjiru Mbugua et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY

Anthropogenic calling sites boost the sound amplitude of advertisement calls produced by a tropical cricket

(2018) Bettina Erregger et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Urbanization alters the relationship between coloration and territorial aggression, but not hormones, in song sparrows

(2018) Michelle L. Beck et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mate choice behavior of female Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor ) is robust to anthropogenic light pollution

(2018) Victoria A. Underhill et al.   ETHOLOGY

So much for the city: Urban-rural song variation in a widespread Asiatic songbird

(2018) Samuel D. HILL et al.   Integrative Zoology

Factors associated with leucism in the common blackbird (Turdus merula )

(2018) Lucía Izquierdo et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Short- and mid-wavelength artificial light influences the flash signals of Aquatica ficta fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

(2018) Avalon Celeste Stevahn Owens et al.   PLoS One

Urban sparrows respond to a sexually selected trait with increased aggression in noise

(2018) Jennifer N. Phillips et al.   Scientific Reports

Temperature variations affect postcopulatory but not precopulatory sexual selection in the cigarette beetle

(2018) Yû Suzaki et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Light pollution may create demographic traps for nocturnal insects

(2018) Ariel Firebaugh et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Variation of fitness and reproductive strategy in male Bufo raddei under environmental heavy metal pollution

(2018) Rui Guo et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Artificial light at night as a driver of evolution across urban-rural landscapes

(2018) Gareth R Hopkins et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The evolution of city life

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

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of sexual selection and sexual conflict

(2018) Erik I. Svensson   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Acoustic adaptation to city noise through vocal learning by a songbird

(2018) Dana Lynn Moseley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Speciation and the City

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

The impact of artificial light at night on nocturnal insects: A review and synthesis

(2018) Avalon C. S. Owens et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Urban noise and grey-headed flying-fox vocalisations: evidence of the silentium effect

(2018) Tim Pearson et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Diversity of social-genetic relationships in the socially monogamous pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) breeding in Western Siberia

(2018) Vladimir G. Grinkov et al.   PeerJ

Adaptive changes in sexual signalling in response to urbanization

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

Sub-lethal exposure to lead is associated with heightened aggression in an urban songbird

(2018) Stephanie C. McClelland et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Differential and additive effects of natural biotic and anthropogenic noise on call properties of Odontophrynus americanus (Anura, Odontophryinidae): Implications for the conservation of anurans inhabiting noisy environments

(2018) Pablo R. Grenat et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Negative impact of urban noise on sexual receptivity and clutch size in female domestic canaries

(2017) Guillaume Huet des Aunay et al.   ETHOLOGY

Sexual selection reinforces a higher flight endurance in urban damselflies

(2017) Nedim Tüzün et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Why artificial light at night should be a focus for global change research in the 21st century

(2017) Thomas W. Davies et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Calls of Recently Introduced Coquí Frogs Do Not Interfere with Cricket Phonotaxis in Hawaii

(2017) Marlene Zuk et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Chronic exposure to dim artificial light at night decreases fecundity and adult survival in Drosophila melanogaster

(2017) L.K. McLay et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Do trace metals influence visual signals? Effects of trace metals on iridescent and melanic feather colouration in the feral pigeon

(2017) Marion Chatelain et al.   OIKOS

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

Plumage micro-organisms and preen gland size in an urbanizing context

(2017) Mathieu Giraudeau et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Signal information of bird song changes in human-dominated landscapes

(2017) Desiree L. Narango et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The association between continual, year-round hunting and bellowing rate of bison bulls during the rut

(2017) Ronald J. Sarno et al.   PeerJ

Pheromones-based sexual selection in a rapidly changing world

(2017) Jessica Henneken et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Communication Value of Mistakes in Dark-Eyed Junco Song

(2016) André C. Ferreira et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Instantaneous song modification in response to fluctuating traffic noise in the tree cricket Oecanthus pellucens

(2016) Kirill Márk Orci et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

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

The struggle to be heard in an increasingly noisy world: a comment on Roca et al.

(2016) Bob B.M. Wong et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Spatial patterns of extra-pair paternity for spotted towheesPipilo maculatusin urban parks

(2016) Sarah Bartos Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Experimental tests of light-pollution impacts on nocturnal insect courtship and dispersal

(2016) Ariel Firebaugh et al.   OECOLOGIA

Evaluating ‘Plasticity-First’ Evolution in Nature: Key Criteria and Empirical Approaches

(2016) Nicholas A. Levis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Experimental exposure to urban and pink noise affects brain development and song learning in zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata)

(2016) Dominique A. Potvin et al.   PeerJ

Frogs Call at a Higher Pitch in Traffic Noise

(2016) Kirsten M. Parris et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Diet influences female signal reliability for male mate choice

(2015) Jessica Henneken et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Adaptation and Adaptedness of Organisms to Urban Environments

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

Not so sexy in the city: urban birds adjust songs to noise but compromise vocal performance

(2015) David A. Luther et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Urban-associated drivers of song variation along a rural–urban gradient

(2015) Desirée L. Narango et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic noise is associated with changes in acoustic but not visual signals in red-winged blackbirds

(2015) Alejandro A. Ríos-Chelén et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Effects of carotenoid supplementation and oxidative challenges on physiological parameters and carotenoid-based coloration in an urbanization context

(2015) Mathieu Giraudeau et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Traffic noise masks acoustic signals of freshwater stream fish

(2015) Daniel E. Holt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

Flash signal evolution inPhotinusfireflies: Character displacement and signal exploitation in a visual communication system

(2015) Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall et al.   EVOLUTION

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

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

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

(2015) Caroline Isaksson   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Melatonin: a possible link between the presence of artificial light at night and reductions in biological fitness

(2015) T. M. Jones et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Analyzing the heat island magnitude and characteristics in one hundred Asian and Australian cities and regions

(2015) M. Santamouris   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound

(2015) John P. Swaddle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Suburban immigrants to wildlands disrupt honest signaling in ultra-violet plumage

(2015) Angela Tringali et al.   Avian Conservation and Ecology

Global Trends in Exposure to Light Pollution in Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2015) Jonathan Bennie et al.   Remote Sensing

Hormonal, Behavioral, and Life-History Traits Exhibit Correlated Shifts in Relation to Population Establishment in a Novel Environment

(2014) Jonathan W. Atwell et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Sexy voices – no choices: male song in noise fails to attract females

(2014) Rouven Schmidt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The role of behaviour in the establishment of novel traits

(2014) Marlene Zuk et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Urban and colorful male house finches are less aggressive

(2014) M. Hasegawa et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Multimodality: A way to cope with road traffic noise? The case of European treefrog (Hyla arborea)

(2014) Mathieu Troïanowski et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Urban greenspace composition and landscape context influence natural enemy community composition and function

(2014) Caitlin E. Burkman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Sexual selection is influenced by both developmental and adult environments

(2014) Stephanie R. Gillespie et al.   EVOLUTION

Urban ecology: advancing science and society

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

Japanese beetle lures used alone or combined with structurally related chemicals to trap NE China scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2014) Ri-zhao Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY

Urban canyon effect: storm drains enhance call characteristics of the Mientien tree frog

(2014) W.-H. Tan et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Singing seaside: Pacific Wrens (Troglodytes pacificus) change their songs in the presence of natural and anthropogenic noise

(2014) Danielle C. Gough et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Evolution of increased phenotypic diversity enhances population performance by reducing sexual harassment in damselflies

(2014) Yuma Takahashi et al.   Nature Communications

Selection based on the size of the black tie of the great tit may be reversed in urban habitats

(2014) Juan Carlos Senar et al.   Ecology and Evolution

An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity

(2013) Emilie C. Snell-Rood   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Urban noise undermines female sexual preferences for low-frequency songs in domestic canaries

(2013) Guillaume Huet des Aunay et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sexual Selection in Complex Environments

(2013) Christine W. Miller et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Ten unanswered questions in multimodal communication

(2013) Sarah R. Partan   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

EVOLUTION OF MALE COLORATION DURING A POST-PLEISTOCENE RADIATION OF BAHAMAS MOSQUITOFISH (GAMBUSIA HUBBSI)

(2013) Ryan A. Martin et al.   EVOLUTION

How grasshoppers respond to road noise: developmental plasticity and population differentiation in acoustic signalling

(2013) Ulrike Lampe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Contributions of natural and sexual selection to the evolution of premating reproductive isolation: a research agenda

(2013) Rebecca J. Safran et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

On the relationship between, and measurement of, amplitude and frequency in birdsong

(2012) Sue Anne Zollinger et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Phenotypic plasticity affects the response of a sexually selected trait to anthropogenic noise

(2012) Mary J. Montague et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Staying tuned: grasshoppers from noisy roadside habitats produce courtship signals with elevated frequency components

(2012) Ulrike Lampe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

REVIEW: Reducing the ecological consequences of night-time light pollution: options and developments

(2012) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

On the perception, production and function of blue colouration in animals

(2012) Kate D. L. Umbers   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The ecological-evolutionary interplay: density-dependent sexual selection in a migratory songbird

(2012) Thomas B. Ryder et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Dynamic selective environments and evolutionary traps in human-dominated landscapes

(2011) Amanda D Rodewald et al.   ECOLOGY

Urban noise and male density affect songs in the great titParus major

(2011) S. Hamao et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Low-frequency songs lose their potency in noisy urban conditions

(2011) W. Halfwerk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Magic traits in speciation: ‘magic’ but not rare?

(2011) Maria R. Servedio et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Birds and Anthropogenic Noise: Are Urban Songs Adaptive?

(2010) Erwin Nemeth et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Does decoration theft lead to an honest relationship between male quality and signal size in great bowerbirds?

(2010) Natalie R. Doerr   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Multimodal communication of wolf spiders on different substrates: evidence for behavioural plasticity

(2010) Shira D. Gordon et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Larval Rearing Temperature Influences Amount and Composition of the Marking Pheromone of the Male Beewolf,Philanthus triangulum

(2010) Kerstin Roeser-Mueller et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Light pollution as a biodiversity threat

(2010) Franz Hölker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecology of Herbivorous Arthropods in Urban Landscapes

(2009) Michael J. Raupp et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Preexisting behavior renders a mutation adaptive: flexibility in male phonotaxis behavior and the loss of singing ability in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus

(2009) Robin M. Tinghitella et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The effect of anthropogenic noise on male advertisement call rate in the neotropical treefrog, Dendropsophus triangulum

(2009) Kristine Kaiser et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Environmental heterogeneity, genotype-by-environment interactions and the reliability of sexual traits as indicators of mate quality

(2009) A.D Higginson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Towards an evolutionary ecology of sexual traits

(2009) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The costs of chronic noise exposure for terrestrial organisms

(2009) Jesse R. Barber et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION ON A LOCAL SCALE: DEVELOPMENTAL, FUNCTIONAL, AND GENETIC BASES OF DIVERGENCE IN BILL FORM AND ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN SONG STRUCTURE BETWEEN ADJACENT HABITATS

(2008) Alexander V. Badyaev et al.   EVOLUTION

PURGING THE GENOME WITH SEXUAL SELECTION: REDUCING MUTATION LOAD THROUGH SELECTION ON MALES

(2008) Michael C. Whitlock et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Acoustic experience shapes female mate choice in field crickets

(2008) N. W Bailey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Is sexual selection beneficial during adaptation to environmental change?

(2008) U CANDOLIN et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION