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

The unrealized potential of herbaria for global change biology

(2018) Emily K. Meineke et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Water availability drives urban tree growth responses to herbivory and warming

(2018) Emily K. Meineke et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density

(2018) April L. Hamblin et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Urban heat island-induced increases in evapotranspirative demand

(2017) Samuel C. Zipper et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

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

Evolution of life in urban environments

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

Soil lead contamination decreases bee visit duration at sunflowers

(2017) Frances S. Sivakoff et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Influence of heavy metal contamination on urban natural enemies and biological control

(2017) Mary M Gardiner et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Warming and drought combine to increase pest insect fitness on urban trees

(2017) Adam G. Dale et al.   PLoS One

Climate change accelerates growth of urban trees in metropolises worldwide

(2017) Hans Pretzsch et al.   Scientific Reports

Natural selection on plant physiological traits in an urban environment

(2016) Susan C. Lambrecht et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of urbanization on direct and indirect interactions in a tri-trophic system

(2016) Tabea Turrini et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Phenotypic shifts in urban areas in the tropical lizardAnolis cristatellus

(2016) Kristin M. Winchell et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands

(2016) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fine-Scale Microclimatic Variation Can Shape the Responses of Organisms to Global Change in Both Natural and Urban Environments

(2016) Sylvain Pincebourde et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Can we detect a nonlinear response to temperature in European plant phenology?

(2016) Susanne Jochner et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Warming benefits a native species competing with an invasive congener in the presence of a biocontrol beetle

(2016) Xinmin Lu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Urban warming reduces aboveground carbon storage

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

Urbanization drives the evolution of parallel clines in plant populations

(2016) Ken A. Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Remotely sensed assessment of urbanization effects on vegetation phenology in China's 32 major cities

(2016) Decheng Zhou et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Urban Heat Island and its spatial scale dependent impact on survival and development in butterflies of different thermal sensitivity

(2016) Aurélien Kaiser et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Complex responses of insect phenology to climate change

(2016) Jessica RK Forrest   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Effects of urbanization on bird phenology: a continental study of paired urban and rural populations

(2015) AP Møller et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Photosynthesis and isoprene emission from trees along an urban-rural gradient in Texas

(2015) Eleanor C. Lahr et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Warming affects hatching time and early season survival of eastern tent caterpillars

(2015) Mariana Abarca et al.   OECOLOGIA

Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects

(2015) K. C. R. Baldock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Urban Plantings: ‘Living Laboratories’ for Climate Change Response

(2015) Claire Farrell et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Urban plant physiology: adaptation-mitigation strategies under permanent stress

(2015) Carlo Calfapietra et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Shared and unique responses of insects to the interaction of urbanization and background climate

(2015) Sarah E Diamond et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Urbanization Increases Pathogen Pressure on Feral and Managed Honey Bees

(2015) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive evolution in urban ecosystems

(2014) Colin M. Donihue et al.   AMBIO

Early pest development and loss of biological control are associated with urban warming

(2014) E. K. Meineke et al.   Biology Letters

Urban warming trumps natural enemy regulation of herbivorous pests

(2014) Adam G. Dale et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature

(2014) Sarah E. Diamond et al.   ECOLOGY

Ozone levels in European and USA cities are increasing more than at rural sites, while peak values are decreasing

(2014) Elena Paoletti et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Do cities simulate climate change? A comparison of herbivore response to urban and global warming

(2014) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Acclimation of photosynthetic temperature optima of temperate and boreal tree species in response to experimental forest warming

(2014) Kerrie M. Sendall et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A spatial analysis of plant phenophase changes and the impact of increases in urban land use

(2014) Alexis Comber et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Drought-induced xylem cavitation and hydraulic deterioration: risk factors for urban trees under climate change?

(2014) Tadeja Savi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Simulated climate warming alters phenological synchrony between an outbreak insect herbivore and host trees

(2014) Ezra G. Schwartzberg et al.   OECOLOGIA

The Effects of Urban Warming on Herbivore Abundance and Street Tree Condition

(2014) Adam G. Dale et al.   PLoS One

Urbanisation at Multiple Scales Is Associated with Larger Size and Higher Fecundity of an Orb-Weaving Spider

(2014) Elizabeth C. Lowe et al.   PLoS One

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

Upsetting the order: how climate and atmospheric change affects herbivore–enemy interactions

(2014) Sarah L Facey et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Evolutionary and plastic responses to climate change in terrestrial plant populations

(2013) Steven J. Franks et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Photosynthesis of temperateEucalyptus globulustrees outside their native range has limited adjustment to elevated CO2and climate warming

(2013) Kristine Y. Crous et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Searching for the bull’s eye: agents and targets of selection vary among geographically disparate cyanogenesis clines in white clover (Trifolium repens L.)

(2013) N J Kooyers et al.   HEREDITY

Thermal tolerance, net CO2 exchange and growth of a tropical tree species, Ficus insipida, cultivated at elevated daytime and nighttime temperatures

(2013) G. Heinrich Krause et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Experimental warming studies on tree species and forest ecosystems: a literature review

(2013) Haegeun Chung et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Urban Warming Drives Insect Pest Abundance on Street Trees

(2013) Emily K. Meineke et al.   PLoS One

Multi-factor climate change effects on insect herbivore performance

(2013) Christoph Scherber et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Warming, CO2, and nitrogen deposition interactively affect a plant-pollinator mutualism

(2012) Shelley E. R. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity

(2012) Céline Bellard et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2and temperature

(2012) Wouter I. J. Dieleman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Warm springs reduce parasitism of the cereal leaf beetle through phenological mismatch

(2012) E. W. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Rapid evolution of an adaptive cyanogenesis cline in introduced North American white clover (Trifolium repensL.)

(2012) NICHOLAS J. KOOYERS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

(2012) E. M. Wolkovich et al.   NATURE

Biological collections in an ever changing world: Herbaria as tools for biogeographical and environmental studies

(2012) Claude Lavoie   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Climate Change: Resetting Plant-Insect Interactions

(2012) E. H. DeLucia et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Consequences of Climate Warming and Altered Precipitation Patterns for Plant-Insect and Multitrophic Interactions

(2012) M. A. Jamieson et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Urban environment of New York City promotes growth in northern red oak seedlings

(2012) S. Y. Searle et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault

(2011) Kenneth G. Johnson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Biophysical control of whole tree transpiration under an urban environment in Northern China

(2011) Lixin Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants

(2011) I. Bartomeus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

(2011) Sebastian Leuzinger et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cryptic biodiversity loss linked to global climate change

(2011) M. Bálint et al.   Nature Climate Change

Transpiration of urban forests in the Los Angeles metropolitan area

(2010) Diane E. Pataki et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

(2010) Sean B. Menke et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Biological collections and ecological/environmental research: a review, some observations and a look to the future

(2009) Graham H. Pyke et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Climate warming strengthens indirect interactions in an old-field food web

(2009) Brandon T. Barton et al.   ECOLOGY

Thermal plasticity of photosynthesis: the role of acclimation in forest responses to a warming climate

(2009) CARLA A. GUNDERSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations

(2008) Sally N. Aitken et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Macroclimate associated with urbanization increases the rate of secondary succession from fallow soil

(2008) K. George et al.   OECOLOGIA

Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta

(2008) P.-O. Cheptou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Garden plants get a head start on climate change

(2007) Sebastiaan Van der Veken et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT