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Urban evolutionary biology / edited by Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South, Anne Charmantier.
- Format:
- Book
- 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:
- New York : 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.
- 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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