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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Szulkin, Marta (Editor), Munshi-South, Jason (Editor), Charmantier, Anne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Urban ecology (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Urban animals > Ecology.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Urban Evolutionary Biology
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Foreword
  • References
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Urban evolutionary biology
  • 1.2 Societal impact of urban evolutionary biology
  • 1.2.1 Education and outreach
  • 1.2.2 Sustainable cities
  • 1.3 Overview of chapters
  • 1.4 Challenges and emerging topics
  • 1.4.1 Challenges
  • 1.4.2 Are urban environments genetic sources or sinks?
  • 1.4.3 What are the sources of urban adaptation?
  • 1.4.4 Urbanization and mutation rates
  • 1.4.5 Domesticated species as case studies of microevolution
  • 1.4.6 The gut microbiome
  • 1.5 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 2: How to Quantify Urbanization When Testing for Urban Evolution?
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Frameworks for describing and quantifying urbanization
  • 2.2.1 Classic urban ecology frameworks
  • 2.2.2 Time as a missing axis in the study of the evolutionary consequences of urbanization
  • 2.2.3 Parallel urban evolution framework: replicated insight into urban-driven evolutionary processes
  • 2.3 Quantifying axes of variation in the urban environment
  • 2.3.1 Urban metrics
  • 2.3.2 Univariate versus multivariate approaches
  • 2.3.3 How is urbanization quantified in published studies of urban evolution?
  • 2.4 Study design and statistical approaches for urban evolutionary biology
  • 2.4.1 Model selection and variable fitting
  • 2.4.2 Controlling for spatial autocorrelation
  • 2.4.3 The problem of scale
  • 2.5 Conclusions and outlook
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Supplementary Information-Chapter 2
  • Quantification of environmental variation in a heterogeneous urban landscape
  • Variables collected on the ground
  • 1. Human presence
  • 2. Temperature (in C°)
  • 3. Sound pollution (in Db C)
  • Variables collected using a GIS approach
  • 4. Distance to closest roads
  • 5. Distance to closest paths
  • Variables collected with remote sensing (digital photography, satellite sensors)
  • 6. Light pollutionA map of light pollution
  • 7. Tree cover
  • 8. Imperviousness
  • 9. NDVI
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Urban Environments as a Framework to Study Parallel Evolution
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 How often do species show parallel responses to urbanization?
  • 3.3 What agents drive parallel evolution across cities?
  • 3.3.1 Urban heat islands
  • 3.3.2 Pollution
  • 3.3.3 Habitat fragmentation
  • 3.4 Why does parallelism not occur?
  • 3.4.1 Environmental variation
  • 3.4.2 Gene flow
  • 3.4.3 Genetic drift
  • 3.4.4 Genetic architecture of adaptations
  • 3.5 Recommendations for future studies
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Landscape Genetic Approaches to Understanding Movement and Gene Flow in Cities
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Analytical approaches for investigating movement and gene flow in urban areas
  • 4.2.1 Choice of molecular markers in urban evolution studies
  • 4.2.2 Advances in spatial population genomic sand landscape genetics for testing gene flow hypotheses in urban environments