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Postdoc Opportunity in the Centre for Urban Environments
The Centre for Urban Environments (CUE) at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) seeks applications for a fully-funded one-year CUE Post-doctoral Fellowship. The topic is open to studies on urban environments on any topic in the natural sciences, or research…
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Top Urban Evolution Papers of 2021
Humans are increasingly a dominant driver of evolutionary change within populations. Since its inception, the Life in the City Blog has brilliantly shown that some of the most stunning examples of human caused evolution relates to how urbanization affects species’…
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SICB 2022!
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology is gearing up for their annual meeting next week. And just like previous years, there are some amazing urban talks and posters that we want to highlight here! But we can’t do it…
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A New Hope for Urban Pit Building Insects
A pit-fall is only as good as the location is deployed. Cities can provide large shaded areas with a layer of soil suitable for trap building. Check out our blog to find out how Wormlion larvae use walls to deploy…
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New Book: Urban Ecosystem Justice
A new book of interest to those working in urban ecosystems! It looks pretty interesting and I’m eager to dig into it a bit more. Here’s a summary from the author, Scott Kellogg: Merging together the fields of urban ecology,…
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Is Plastic Always Fantastic? Selection on Thermal Plasticity in Urban Anoles
A recent publication in Nature Communications goes above and beyond in studying how selection on adaptive and/or maladaptive gene expression plasticity may be regulating thermal tolerance in urban anoles. The importance of plasticity in the colonization of new environments is…
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Welcome to the Editorial Team: Kevin Avilés-Rodríguez
Everyone welcome the newest member of our editorial team here at Life in the City, Kevin Avilés-Rodríguez! Kevin is a postdoctoral researcher at Fordham University. His dissertation research focused on the interaction of global change drivers on the ecology and evolution…
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New Lit Alert: Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review
Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review Swaroop Patankar, Ravi Jambhekar, Kulbhushansingh Ramesh Suryawanshi, and Harini Nagendra Abstract Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. We focused on birds as a well-studied taxon of interest, in…
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