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Urban evolutionary biology / edited by Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South, Anne Charmantier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szulkin, Marta, Editor.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Urban animals--Ecology.
- Urban animals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2020
- Summary:
- 'Urban Evolutionary Biology' fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. Urbanisation offers a great range of opportunities to examine evolutionary processes because of the radically altered and easily quantifiable urban habitat, and the large number of cities worldwide, enabling rigorous, replicated tests of evolutionary hypotheses. Urban populations are increasingly exhibiting both neutral and adaptive evolutionary changes at levels ranging from genotypes to phenotypes. The novelty of urban evolutionary biology is that these changes are driven by the cities we have built, including effects of infrastructure, pollution, and social characteristics of our urban neighbourhoods.
- Contents:
- List of Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: How to Quantify Urbanization When Testing for Urban Evolution? Supplementary Information-Chapter 2 Chapter 3: Urban Environments as a Framework to Study Parallel Evolution Chapter 4: Landscape Genetic Approaches to Understanding Movement and Gene Flow in Cities Chapter 5: Adaptation Genomics in Urban Environments Chapter 6: Evolutionary Consequences of the Urban Heat Island Chapter 7: The Evolutionary Ecology of Mutualisms in Urban Landscapes Chapter 8: Sidewalk Plants as a Model for Studying Adaptation to Urban Environments Chapter 9: Adaptive Evolution of Plant Life History in Urban Environments Chapter 10: Urbanization and Evolution in Aquatic Environments Chapter 11: Evolutionary Dynamics of Metacommunities in Urbanized Landscapes Chapter 12: Terrestrial Locomotor Evolution in Urban Environments Chapter 13: Urban Evolutionary Physiology Chapter 14: Urban Sexual Selection Chapter 15: Cognition and Adaptation to Urban Environments Chapter 16: Selection on Humans in Cities List of Glossary Terms Definition
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-187384-5
- 0-19-257384-5
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