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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

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

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

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

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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