Cities of the Anthropocene: urban sustainability in an eco-evolutionary perspective

M Alberti - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cities across the globe are driving systemic change in social and ecological systems by
accelerating the rates of interactions and intensifying the links between human activities and …

A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits

AD Cronin, JAH Smit, MI Muñoz, A Poirier… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter‐and intra‐sexual
selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban conditions can influence an …

The complexity of urban eco-evolutionary dynamics

M Alberti, EP Palkovacs, SD Roches, LD Meester… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans …

Network analysis: ten years shining light on host–parasite interactions

R Runghen, R Poulin, C Monlleó-Borrull… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Biological interactions are key drivers of ecological and evolutionary processes. The
complexity of such interactions hinders our understanding of ecological systems and our …

Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs

F Mestre, A Rozenfeld, MB Araújo - Ecology Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Networks describe nodes connected by links, with numbers of links per node, the degree,
forming a range of distributions including random and scale‐free. How network topologies …

Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape

M Alberti, T Wang - Ecology letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Explicit characterisation of the complexity of urban landscapes is critical for understanding
patterns of biodiversity and for detecting the underlying social and ecological processes that …

Insights from the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria on the impacts of urban pollution on the functional organisation of Afrotropical macroinvertebrates

AO Edegbene, FC Akamagwuna - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic activities, including urbanisation and industrialisation threaten stream
ecological integrity, ecosystem community structure and ecosystem functioning of rivers and …

Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base

S Lokatis, JM Jeschke, M Bernard‐Verdier… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Urban ecology is a rapidly growing research field that has to keep pace with the pressing
need to tackle the sustainability crisis. As an inherently multi‐disciplinary field with close ties …

[HTML][HTML] Local habitat factors and spatial connectivity jointly shape an urban insect community

AE Barr, LJA van Dijk, K Hylander, AJM Tack - Landscape and Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
As the world becomes more and more urbanized, it is increasingly important to understand
the impacts of urban landscapes on biodiversity. Urbanization can change local habitat …

Living with wildlife: a review of advances in social-ecological analysis across landscapes

V Hull, X Bian, DJ Episcopio-Sturgeon, CJ Rivera… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context An exciting research frontier is the intersection of wildlife ecology and social
science. Associated research is embracing a spatial approach to integrating ecological and …