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Santangelo, J. S., L. R. Rivkin, and M. T. J. Johnson. 2018. The evolution of city life. Proc. R. Soc. B 285 20181529 doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1529

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Johnson, M. T., and J. Munshi-South. 2017. Evolution of life in urban environments. Science. 358: 6363. doi 10.1126/science.aam8327

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Alberti, M., C. Correa, J. M. Marzluff, A. P. Hendry, E. P. Palkovacs, K. M. Gotanda, V. M. Hunt, T. M. Apgar, and Y. Zhou. 2017. Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations.  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (34): 8951-8956.doi:10.1073/pnas.1606034114

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Alberti, M. 2015. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30(2): 114-126.doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.11.007

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Caizergues, A.E., Grégoire, A., Charmantier, A. 2018. Urban versus forest ecotypes are not explained by divergent reproductive selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. In Press. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0261.

 

Holveck, M.-J., Grégoire, A., Doutrelant, C. & Lambrechts, M.M. 2018. Nest height is affected by lamppost lighting proximity in addition to nestbox size in urban great tits. Journal of Avian Biology. In Press. doi: 10.1111/jav.01798.

 

Johnson, M.T.J., Prashad, C.M., Lavoignat, M., Saini, H.S. 2018. Contrasting the effects of natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow on urban evolution in white clover (Trifolium repens). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. In Press. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1019.

 

Meredith A. Holgerson, Max R. Lambert, L. Kealoha Freidenburg, and David K. Skelly. 2018.From land conversion to wastewater incursion: suburbanization transforms small pond ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. In Press. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2016-0526.

 

Miles,R.,. Dyer, R.J. Verrelli, B.C. 2018. Urban hubs of connectivity: Contrasting patterns of gene flow within and among cities in the Western black widow spider. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In Press. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1224.

Miles, L.S., Miles, J.S., Alberti, M., Aronson, M.F.J., de Keyzer, C.W., Diamond, S.E., Fortin, M.J., Frazee, L.J., Gorton, A.J., Hendry,A., de Keyzer, C.W., Liu, Y., Losos, J., MacIvor, J.S., et al. 2018. A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Applications. In Press. doi: 10.1111/eva.12734.

 

Miles., J. S. Miles, R. Alberti, M. F. J. Aronson, C. de Keyzer, S. E. Diamond, M. J. Fortin, L. J. Frazee, A. J. Gorton, A. P. Hendry et al. 2018. A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Applications. In Press. doi: 10.1111/eva.12734.

 

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Fortin, M.J., Frazee, L.J., Gorton, A.J., Hendry, A.P., Liu, Y., Losos, J.B., MacIvor, J.S., Martin, R.A., McDonnell,M., Miles, L.S., Munshi-South, J., Ness, R., Newman, A., Stothart, M.R., Theodorou, P., Thompson, K.A., Verrelli, B.C., Miles, A., Miles,K.M., Johnson, M.T.J.. 2018. A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Applications. In Press. doi: 10.1111/eva.12734.

 

Miles, R., Fernandes, R., Craig, O.E., Larsen, T., Lucquin, A., Swift, J., Zech, J. 2018. Calling all archaeologists: guidelines for terminology. Data handling, reporting, and reviewing stable isotope applications in archaeology. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. In Press. doi: 10.1002/rcm.8044.

 

Miles, P., Stewart, B. 2018. Defining the ‘generalist-specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens. Nature Human Behavior. In Press. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0394-4.

Miles, J. S., Miles, L.S., Johnson, M.T.J. 2018. The evolution of city life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. In Press. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1529.

Miles,J.S., Johnson,M.T.J., Ness,R.W.2018.Modern spandrels: the roles of genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection in the evolution of parallel clines. The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.In Press. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0230.

 

Swift, K. N. and J. M. Marzluff. 2018. Occurrence and variability of tactile interactions between wild American crows and dead conspecifics. The Royal Society: Philosophical transactions. In Press. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0259.

 

Van Nuland, M.E., Ware, I.M., Miles, J.A., and J.K. Bailey. 2018. Soil nitrogen gradients at the landscape scale drive positive plant-soil linkages. Functional Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12690.

 

Walker, L.A., J. M. Marzluff, M. C. Metz, A. J. Wirsing, L. M. Moskal, D. R. Stahler, and D. W. Smith. 2018. Population responses of common ravens to reintroduced gray wolves. Ecology and Evolution. In Press. doi:10.1002/ece3.4583.

Wooliver, R.C., M.E. Van Nuland, J.K. Bailey and J.A. Miles. 2018. Soil fungi underlie a phylogenetic pattern in plant growth responses to nitrogen enrichment. Journal of Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12983.

 

Alberti, M., Correa, C. Marzluff, J. Hendry, A. P., Palkovacs, E. P., Gotanda, K. M., Hunt, V. Apgar, T. M., Miles, Y. 2017. Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.34: 8951–8956. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1606034114.

 

Campbell-Staton, S., A. Bare, J.B. Losos, S. Edwards andZ. Cheviron. 2018. Physiological and regulatory underpinnings of geographic variation in reptilian cold tolerance across a latitudinal cline. Molecular Ecology. 27:2243–2255. doi: 10.1111/mec.14580.

 

Des Roches, S., Post, D.M., N.E. Turley, J.K. Bailey, A.P. Hendry, M.T. Kinnison, J.A. Miles, E.P. Palkovacs. 2018. The ecological importance of biodiversity within species. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2:57-64. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0352-3.

Donihue, C.M., A. Herrel, A.-C. Fabre, A. Kamath, A.J. Geneva, T.W. Schoener, J.J. Kolbe, and J.B. Losos. 2018. Hurricane-induced selection on the morphology of an island lizard. Nature.560:88-91. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0352-3.

Harmata, A. R., Marzluff, J. M., and J. J. Rotella. 2018. Survival of Montana golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos). J.Ornithology. 130:305-312. doi: 10.1676/16-123.1.

Kearns, A. M., Restani, M., Szaba, I., Schroder-Nielsen, A., Kim, J. A., Richardson, H. M., Marzluff, J. M., Fleischer, R. C., Johnsen, A., and K.E. Omland. 2018. Genomic evidence of speciation reversal in ravens. Nature Communications.9: 906. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03294-w.

 

Lapiedra, O., T.W. Schoener, M. Leal, J.B. Losos, and J.J. Kolbe. 2018. Predator-driven natural selection on risk-taking behavior in anole lizards.Science. 360:1017–1020. doi:  10.1126/science.aap9289.

 

Matthews, B., Best, RJ., Feulner, PGD., Narwani, A., Limberger, R.2018.Evolution as an ecosystem process: insights from genomics. Genome. 4: 298-309. doi: 10.1139/gen-2017-0044.

 

Miles, L.S., Johnson, J.C., Dyer, R.J., Verrelli, B.C. 2018. Urbanization as a facilitator of gene flow in a human health pest. Molecular Ecology.16:3219-3230.

 

Miles, L.S., Johnson, J.C., Dyer, R.J., Verrelli,B.C. 2018. Urban hubs of connectivity: contrasting patterns of gene flow within and among cities in the Western black widow spider. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.285:1884. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1224.

 

Miles, L.S., Johnson, J.C., Dyer, R.J., Verrelli,B.C. 2018. Urbanization as a facilitator of gene flow in a human health pest. Molecular Ecology. 27:3219-3230.

 

Perrier, C., Lozano del Campo, A., Szulkin, M, Demeyrier, V., Gregoire, A. & Charmantier, A. 2018. Great tits and the city: distribution of genomic diversity and gene-environment associations along an urbanization gradient. Evolutionary Applications. 11:593–613. doi: 10.1111/mec.14783.

 

Pluntz, M., Le Coz,S., Peyrard, N., Pradel, R., Choquet, R., Cheptou P.O. 2018.A general method for estimating seed dormancy and colonisation in annual plants from the observation of existing flora. Ecology Letters. 9:1311-8. doi: doi.org/10.1111/ele.13097.

Miles, L.R., Barrett, S.C.H., Johnson, M.T.G. 2018. The effects of plant sexual system and latitude on resistance to herbivores.American Journal of Botany.105: 977-985. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1098.

 

Miles, P., Boivin, N., Kaplan, J. 2018. Finding the anthropocene in tropical forests. Anthropocene.23: 5-16. doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2018.07.002.

 

Miles, P., Stewart, M., Alagaili, A.N., Breeze, P., Candy, I., Drake, N., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Lee-Thorp, J., Louys, J., Zalmout, I.S., Al-Mufarreh, Y.S.A., Zech, J., Alsharekh, A.M., al Omari, A., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. 2018.Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal Middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’. Nature Ecology and Evolution.2: 1871-1878. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0698-9.

 

Senior, J.K., O’Reilly-Wapstra, J.M., Miles, J.A., Bailey, J.K., Potts,B.M.. 2018. Forest fire may disrupt plant-microbial feedbacks. Plant Ecology.219: 497-504. doi: 10.1007/s11258-018-0811-9.

 

Tomasevic, J. A. and J. M. Marzluff. 2018. Space use of suburban pileated woodpeckers: insights on the relationship between home range, core areas, and territory. Oecologia.187:15-23.doi:10.1650/CONDOR-17-171.1.

 

Tomasevic, J. A. and J. M. Marzluff. 2018. Use of suburban landscapes by the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). Condor.120:727-738. doi: 10.1650/CONDOR-17-171.1.

 

Alberti, M., Correa, C., Marzluff, J.M., Hendry, A.P., Palkovacs, E.P., Gotanda, K.M., Hunt, V.M., Apgar, T.M., and Miles, Y. 2017. Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations. PNAS. 114: 8951–8956. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1606034114.

 

Campbell-Staton, S.C., Z.A. Cheviron, N. Rochette, J. Catchen, J.B. Losos, and S.V. Edwards. 2017. Winter storms drive rapid phenotypic, regulatory, and genomic shifts in the green anole lizard. Biological Invasions.7: 1989-1998. doi: 10.1126/science.aam5512.

 

Charmantier, A., Demeyrier, V. Lambrechts, M., Perret, S. & Grégoire, A. 2017. Urbanization is associated with divergence in pace-of-life in great tits. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 5: 53. doi:  doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00053.

 

Cheptou, P.O., Hargreaves, A.L., Bonte, D., Jacquemyn,H. 2017.Adaptation to fragmentation: evolutionary dynamics driven by human influences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 372:1712. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0037.

 

Correa, C., and Moran, P. 2017. Polyphyletic ancestry of expanding Patagonian Chinook salmon populations. Scientific Reports.7:14338. doi:10.1101/079459.

 

Corsini, M.,Dubiec, A., Marrot, P., Szulkin, M.2017. Humans and tits in the city: quantifying the effects of human presence on great tit and blue tit reproduction. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution. In Press. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00082.

 

De León, L. F., Sharpe, D. M. T., Gotanda, K. M., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., Chaves J. A., Hendry, A. P., Podos, J. 2018. Human foods erode niche segregation in Darwin’s finches. Evolutionary Applications. In Press. doi: 10.1111/eva.1272.

 

Demeyrier V., Charmantier A., Lambrechts M.M. & Grégoire A. 2017. Disentangling drivers of reproductive performance in urban great tits: a food supplementation experiment. Journal of Experimental Biology. 220: 4195-4203. doi: 10.1242/jeb.161067.

 

Demeyrier, V., Lambrechts, M., Perret, P., & Grégoire, A. 2016. Experimental demonstration of an ecological trap for a wild bird in a human-transformed environment. Animal Behavior. 118: 181-190. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.06.007.

 

Dubois, J., Cheptou, P.O. 2017.Effects of fragmentation on plant adaptation to urban environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 372:1712. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0038.

 

Gotanda, K. M., Hendry, A. P., Svensson, E. I. 2017. Special Theme Issue: Human influences on evolution and the ecological and societal consequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In Press. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0028.

 

Hendry, A. P., Gotanda, K. M., Svensson, E. I. 2017. Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – B. In press. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0028.

 

Johnson, M.T.J., Munshi-South, J. 2017. Evolution of life in urban environments. Science Magazine. In Press. doi: 10.1111/eva.12734.

 

Kolbe, J.J., J.E. Wegener, Y.E. Stuart, U. Milstead, K.E. Boronow, A.S. Harrison and J.B. Losos. 2017. An incipient invasion of brown anole lizards (Anolis sagrei) into their own native range in the Cayman Islands: a case of cryptic back-introduction. Biological Invasions. In Press. doi:10.1007/s10530-017-1432-2.

 

Lambert, M.R.,Geoffrey S.J.,Giller, D. Skelly, K. Bribiescas, RG.2016.Septic systems, but not sanitary sewer lines, are associated with elevated estradiol in frog metamorphs from suburban ponds. General and comparative Endocrinology. 232: 109-114. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.01.009.

 

Lambrecht S.C., Mahieu, S., Cheptou, P.O. 2016. Natural selection on plant physiological traits in an urban environment. Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology.77:67-74. doi: 10.1016/j.actao.2016.09.002.

 

Lambrechts, M.M., Charmantier, A., Demeyrier, V., Lucas, A., Perret, S., Abouladzé, M., Bonnet, M., Canonne, C., Faucon, V., Grosset, S., le Prado, G., Lidon, F., Noell, T., Pagano, P., Perret, V., Pouplard, S., Spitaliéry, R., Bernard, C., Perret, P., Blondel, J. & Grégoire, A. 2017. Nest design in a changing world: great tit Parus major nests from a Mediterranean city environment as a case study. Urban Ecosystems.20:1191-1190. doi: 10.1007/s11252-017-0670-5.

 

Leal, MC., Seehausen,O.,Matthews, B. 2017. Ecology and evolution of stoichiometric phenotypes. Trends in ecological evolution. 2: 108-117. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.11.006.

 

Marjorie G., Weber,C., Wagner, E., Rebecca, J.,Best, L.,Harmon, J. Matthews, B.2017.Evolution in a community context: on integrating ecological interactions and macroevolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 4: 291- 304. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.003.

 

Matthews, B, Aebischer,T.,Sullam, K.E., Lundsgaard-Hansen, B, Seehausen, O.2016.Experimental evidence of an eco-evolutionary feedback during adaptive divergence. Current Biology. 4: 483-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.070.

 

Narum, S.R., Gallardo, P., Correa, C., Matala, A., Hasselman, D., Sutherland, B.J.G., and Bernatchez, L. 2017. Genomic patterns of diversity and divergence of two introduced salmonid species in Patagonia, South America. Evolutionary Applications. 10: 402–416. doi: 10.1111/eva.12464.

 

Perrier C., Lozana del Campo, A., Szulkin, M., Demeyrier, V., Gregoire, A. & Charmantier, A. 2017. Great tits and the city: distribution of genomic diversity and gene-environment associations along an urbanization gradient. Evolutionary Applications.5:593-613. doi: 10.1111/eva.12580.

 

Miles, P., Hunt, C., Arroyo-Kalin, M., Evans, D., Boivin, N. 2017. The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation. Nature Plants.3: 17093.doi: 10.1038/nplants.2017.93.

Theodosopoulos, A. N. and Gotanda, K. M. 2018. Death of a Darwin’s Finch: a consequence of anthropogenic debris? The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. In Press.doi: 10.1676/17-00050.1. doi: 10.1676/17-00050.1.

 

Thompson, K.A., Renaudin, M., Johnson, M.T.J. 2016. Urbanization drives the evolution of parallel clinesin plant populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.In Press. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2180.

 

Vaugoyeau, M., Adriaensen, F., Artemyev, A., Bańbura, J., Barba, E., Biard, C., Blondel, J., Bouslama, Z., Bouvier, J.-C., Camprodon, J., Cecere, F., Charmantier, A., Charter, M., Cichoń, M., Cusimano, C., Czeszczewik, D., Demeyrier, V., Doligez, B., Doutrelant, C., Dubiec, A., Eens, M., Eeva, T., Faivre, B., Ferns, P.N., Forsman, J.T., et al. 2016. Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanisation in four species of hole-nesting birds. Ecology and Evolution.16:5907-5920.  doi: 10.1002/ece3.2335.

 

Wooliver, R.C., Z.H. Marion, C.R. Peterson, B.M. Potts, J.K. Senior, J.K. Bailey and J.A. Miles. 2017. Phylogeny is a powerful tool for predicting plant biomass responses to nitrogen enrichment. Ecology.98:2120-2132.  doi: 10.1002/ece3.2335.

 

Thompson, K.A., Renaudin, M., Johnson, M.T.J. 2016. Urbanization drives the evolution of parallel clinesin plant populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.In Press. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2180.

Lambert, M.R.,Geoffrey S.J.,Giller, D. Skelly, K. Bribiescas, RG.2016.Septic systems, but not sanitary sewer lines, are associated with elevated estradiol in frog metamorphs from suburban ponds. General and comparative Endocrinology. 232: 109-114. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.01.009.

 

Lambrecht S.C., Mahieu, S., Cheptou, P.O. 2016. Natural selection on plant physiological traits in an urban environment. Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology. 77:67-74.

Vaugoyeau, M., Adriaensen, F., Artemyev, A., Bańbura, J., Barba, E., Biard, C., Blondel, J., Bouslama, Z., Bouvier, J.-C., Camprodon, J., Cecere, F., Charmantier, A., Charter, M., Cichoń, M., Cusimano, C., Czeszczewik, D., Demeyrier, V., Doligez, B., Doutrelant, C., Dubiec, A., Eens, M., Eeva, T., Faivre, B., Ferns, P.N., Forsman, J.T., et al. 2016. Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole-nesting birds. Ecology and Evolution.16:5907-5920.  doi: 10.1002/ece3.2335.

 

 

Demeyrier, V., Lambrechts, M., Perret, P., & Grégoire, A. 2016. Experimental demonstration of an ecological trap for a wild bird in a human-transformed environment. Animal Behavior. 118: 181-190. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.06.007.

 

Matthews, B, Aebischer,T., Sullam, K.E., Lundsgaard-Hansen, B, Seehausen, O.2016.Experimental evidence of an eco-evolutionary feedback during adaptive divergence. Current Biology. 4: 483-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.070.

 

Gotanda, K. M., Sharpe, D. M. T., De Léon, L. F. 2015. Galápagos Mockingbird preys on an invasive mammal. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 1: 138-141.

Johnson, M.T.J. Thompson, K.A., Saini, H.S. 2015. Plant evolution in the urban jungle. American Journal of Botany.102(12):1951-3. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1500386.

 

Lambert, M.R., Giller, G.S., Barber, L.B., Fitzgerald, K.C.,Skelly, D.K. 2015.Suburbanization, estrogen contamination, and sexratio in wild amphibian populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 38:11881-6.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501065112.

 

Siepielski, A. M., Gotanda, K. M., Morrissey, M. B., Diamond, S. E., DiBattista, J. D., Carlson, S. M. 2013. The spatial dynamics of phenotypic selection. Ecology Letters. 11: 1382-1392. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199830060-0059.

 

Correa, C., Bravo, A.P., and Hendry, A.P. 2012. Reciprocal trophic niche shifts in native and invasive fish: salmonids and galaxiids in Patagonian lakes. Freshwater Biology. 57: 1769–1781. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02837.x.

 

Matthews, B., Narwani, A., Hausch,S, Etsuko,N., Hannes, P., Masato, Y., Sullam, K., Kali, C., Mridual, B., K. Thomas Torrance C. Hanley Caroline B. Turner. 2011.Toward and integration of evolutionary biology and ecosystem science. Ecology Letters. 14: 690–701. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01627.x.

 

Cheptou, P.O., Carrue, O., Rouifed, S., Cantarel, A. 2008.Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.10:3796-9.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708446105.

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