Urban Ecology and Evolution 1400-233UEE-W
Fundaments of Urban Ecology
• How are cities different relative to natural habitat?
• Urban ecology
• Historical background
• Biophysical Environment of cities
• Urban Metabolism
Urban Ecology & Evolution
• Key concepts in eco-evo research
• Urban avoiders, adapters, exploiters
• Urban physiology
Urban Evolutionary Biology
• Phenotypic plasticity
• Genetic change
• 4 forces of evolution in an urban context
• Epigenetic modifications
• Observational vs experimental approaches
• Challenges and Misconceptions in Urban Adaptation research
The Human Niche
• Green Infrastructure
• Socio-eco-evo interactions
• Human Evolution
The Warsaw Study System: Urban Eco-Evo in Practice
• The nestbox
• The city
• Replicated cities
Type of course
optional courses
Bibliography
Szulkin M, Munshi-South J & Charmantier A (Editors). 2020. Urban Evolutionary Biology. 303 pages. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
The Second Edition of the Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology (2nd edition; Editors: Anderson P, Douglas I, Goode D, Houck M, Maddox D, Nagendra H, Yok TP). pp. 383-398. Routledge.
Rivkin et al. 2018. A Roadmap for Urban Evolutionary Ecology. Evolutionary Applications. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12734
Winchell et al. 2022. Moving past the challenges and misconceptions in urban adaptation research. Evolutionary Applications (in revision, likely to be out by September 2022).
Thompson et al. 2022. Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.009
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