The majority of the world population is now inhabiting urban areas, and with staggering
population growth, urbanization is also increasing. While the work studying the effects of …

Rates of human-induced environmental change continue increasing with human population
size, potentially altering animal physiology and negatively affecting wildlife. Researchers …

Over the past two decades, the effects of roads on wildlife have been extensively studied.
Theoretically, railways cause similar effects as well, yet ecologists do not understand the …

Recent advances in understanding the often rapid pace of evolution are reshaping our view
of organisms and their capacity to cope with environmental change. Though evolutionary …

A major challenge in urban ecology is to identify the environmental factors responsible for
phenotypic differences between urban and rural individuals. However, the intercorrelation …

Ontogeny is expected to be a determinant factor affecting production of colour patches in
lizards, while immune challenges or sudden weight loss may impair the maintenance of …

Urbanization has the potential to induce major changes in freshwater systems. Expected
increases in human populations will likely amplify these changes and lead to the overall …

Social buffering comprises the reduction of stress an organism experiences when in the
presence of a companion and has been well documented in highly social animals, such as …

Anthropogenic noise can have important physiological and behavioral effects on wild
animals. For example, urban noise could lead to a state of chronic stress and could alter the …

Differences between air and ground temperatures are expected to narrow with the advance
of the season in temperate regions (aka seasonal restriction in the availability of thermal …