Urban Evolutionary Biology

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Marta Szulkin (Associate Professor, Centre of New Technologies, Associate Professor, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw) Jason Munshi-South (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University)

Urban Evolutionary Biology

Marta Szulkin (Associate Professor, Centre of New Technologies, Associate Professor, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw), Jason Munshi-South (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University), Anne Charmantier (Director of Research, CEFE, Director of Research, CEFE CNRS, University of Montpellier)

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Oxford University Press
05 March 2020

Ecological science, the Biosphere; Evolution; Genetics (non-medical); Animal behaviour; Animal ecology

Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. The growing rate of urbanization and the maturation of urban study systems worldwide means interest in the urban environment as an agent of evolutionary change is rapidly increasing.

We are presently witnessing the emergence of a new field of research in evolutionary biology. Despite its rapid global expansion, the urban environment has until now been a largely neglected study site among evolutionary biologists. With its conspicuously altered ecological dynamics, it stands in stark contrast to the natural environments traditionally used as cornerstones for evolutionary ecology research. Urbanization can offer a great range of new opportunities to test for rapid evolutionary processes as a consequence of human activity, both because of replicate contexts for hypothesis testing, but also because cities are characterized by an array of easily quantifiable environmental axes of variation and thus testable agents of selection. Thanks to a wide possible breadth of inference (in terms of taxa) that may be studied,

and a great variety of analytical methods, urban evolution has the potential to stand at a fascinating multi-disciplinary crossroad, enriching the field of evolutionary biology with emergent yet incredibly potent new research themes where the urban habitat is key. Urban Evolutionary Biology is an advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers studying the genetics, evolutionary biology, and ecology of urban environments. It is also highly relevant to urban ecologists and urban wildlife practitioners.

Edited by: Marta Szulkin (Associate Professor Centre of New Technologies Associate Professor Centre of New Technologies University of Warsaw), Jason Munshi-South (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University), Anne Charmantier (Director of Research, CEFE, Director of Research, CEFE CNRS, University of Montpellier)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 187mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198836858
ISBN 10: 0198836856
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 05 March 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marta Szulkin is an evolutionary biologist who completed her first degree at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She holds a Masters and a Doctoral degree in evolutionary biology from the University of Oxford (UK). Marta was as Magdalen College Research Fellow (University of Oxford), and a Marie Curie Fellow at CEFE CNRS in Montpellier (France). She is currently associate professor at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw (Poland), where she is heading the Wild Urban Evolution & Ecology Lab. She is managing a prospectively long-term study of urban passerines in Warsaw, and is interested in the evolution and ecology of all urban life. Jason Munshi-South is an evolutionary ecologist that completed a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, USA, and a postdoctoral position at the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently a Professor of Biological Sciences at Fordham University in Bronx, NY, USA. His main research interests are the ecology and evolution of urban wildlife, with special emphasis on the landscape genomics of urban rodents. Anne Charmantier is an evolutionary ecologist educated in France, the UK and Canada, and presently holding a senior permanent CNRS position. Her main research interests are focused on understanding the mechanisms involved in the evolution of adaptive traits, especially in a context of rapid anthropogenic changes. Since 2007, she is managing a long-term blue tit project, which contributes to her research on local adaptation, plasticity, senescence, ecological genomics and sexual selection. She has particularly pioneered quantitative genetic approaches in wild populations, to study adaptive and non-adaptive responses to climate change and urbanisation.