A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology
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- L. Ruth Rivkin
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- James S. Santangelo
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Marina Alberti
- Department of Urban Design and Planning University of Washington Seattle Washington
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- Myla F. J. Aronson
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick New Jersey
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- Charlotte W. de Keyzer
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Sarah E. Diamond
- Department of Biology Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio
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- Marie‐Josée Fortin
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Lauren J. Frazee
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick New Jersey
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- Amanda J. Gorton
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul Minnesota
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- Andrew P. Hendry
- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Yang Liu
- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia Canada
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- Jonathan B. Losos
- Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts
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- J. Scott MacIvor
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Ryan A. Martin
- Department of Biology Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio
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- Mark J. McDonnell
- School of BioSciences The University of Melbourne Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- Lindsay S. Miles
- Integrative Life Sciences Doctoral Program Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond Virginia
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- Jason Munshi‐South
- Louis Calder Center—Biological Field Station Fordham University Armonk New York
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- Robert W. Ness
- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga Ontario Canada
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- Amy E. M. Newman
- Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph Ontario Canada
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- Mason R. Stothart
- Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph Ontario Canada
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- Panagiotis Theodorou
- General Zoology, Institute of Biology Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Halle (Saale) Germany
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- Ken A. Thompson
- Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology University of British Columbia British Columbia Canada
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- Brian C. Verrelli
- Center for Life Sciences Education Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond Virginia
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- Andrew Whitehead
- Department of Environmental Toxicology University of California Davis Davis California
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- Kristin M. Winchell
- Department of Biology Washington University in Saint Louis Saint Louis Missouri
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- Marc T. J. Johnson
- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga Ontario Canada
Description
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Urban ecosystems are rapidly expanding throughout the world, but how urban growth affects the evolutionary ecology of species living in urban areas remains largely unknown. Urban ecology has advanced our understanding of how the development of cities and towns change environmental conditions and alter ecological processes and patterns. However, despite decades of research in urban ecology, the extent to which urbanization influences evolutionary and eco‐evolutionary change has received little attention. The nascent field of urban evolutionary ecology seeks to understand how urbanization affects the evolution of populations, and how those evolutionary changes in turn influence the ecological dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems. Following a brief history of this emerging field, this Perspective article provides a research agenda and roadmap for future research aimed at advancing our understanding of the interplay between ecology and evolution of urban‐dwelling organisms. We identify six key questions that, if addressed, would significantly increase our understanding of how urbanization influences evolutionary processes. These questions consider how urbanization affects nonadaptive evolution, natural selection, and convergent evolution, in addition to the role of urban environmental heterogeneity on species evolution, and the roles of phenotypic plasticity versus adaptation on species’ abundance in cities. Our final question examines the impact of urbanization on evolutionary diversification. For each of these six questions, we suggest avenues for future research that will help advance the field of urban evolutionary ecology. Lastly, we highlight the importance of integrating urban evolutionary ecology into urban planning, conservation practice, pest management, and public engagement.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Evolutionary Applications
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Evolutionary Applications 12 (3), 384-398, 2018-12-14
Wiley
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1360017287250502016
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- ISSN
- 17524571
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- Data Source
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- Crossref