The current, rapid urbanisation process impacts global biodiversity and can be a driver for
phenotypic changes in mammals that persist in cities. Animals display different response …

Urban wildlife faces a great variety of human-induced habitat alterations, among others
changes in resource availability and composition, often resulting in serious declines in …

The gut microbiome of wild animals is subject to various environmental influences, including
those associated with human-induced alterations to the environment. We investigated how …

Urban habitats provide wildlife with predictable, easily accessible and abundant food
sources in the form of human food waste. Urban eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus …

Some species occur in higher densities in cities than in natural habitats, despite the variety
of urban stressors. Urban fragments can be extremely heterogeneous though, and species' …

Urban wildlife faces unique physiological and behavioral challenges compared to
conspecifics which live in less altered natural habitats. Animals in urban habitats are also …

Background Host-associated microbiota can be fundamental to the ecology of their host and
may even help wildlife species colonize novel niches or cope with rapid environmental …