Urban Landscape Genetics: Are Biologists Keeping Up with the Pace of Urbanization?

Fusco, Nicole; Carlen, Elizabeth J.; Munshi‐South, Jason

doi:10.1007/s40823-021-00062-3

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“…Therefore, urban planning must consider the dynamics of expansion and the speci c interactions of urban growth with other dimensions of the socio-ecosystem [33]. Thus, from different elds, including health [34], education [35], energy [36], geography [27], climatology [14], [31], [37], [38], and biodiversity [29], [39], [40], increasing efforts are deployed to understand the dynamics of urban expansion and its effects on sustainability and common welfare [23], [27], [28].…”

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WITHDRAWN: Cities expansion drivers and maximum temperatures variation in the Tropics

Bonilla-Bedoya

Žalakevičiūtė

Santos

et al. 2023

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Urban expansion and contemporary climate variations are caused by different proximate and underlying multidimensional factors. A spatiotemporal analysis of the urban socio-ecosystem generates key information for planning a sustainable urban model. We analyzed the spatiotemporal pattern of urban expansion and maximum temperature variations in a hierarchy of four categories of cities in the South American tropics in a sequence of seven-time intervals between 1985 and 2018. We defined the boundaries of 31 cities using spatiotemporal information on climatic, topographic, forest, demographic, and economic dimensions. This information was used to run several linear and nonlinear models that would explain the pattern of urban expansion and maximum temperature variations. We found that the historical pattern of expansion varied over time by city category; however, by the end of the first two decades of the 21st century, expansion was significantly higher for all categories. All dimensions contributed to explaining the expansion. An increasing altitude, the steepness of the slope, and a lower roughness index were the proximate causes of increasing the probability of city expansion; on the contrary, vegetation cover had the least importance, suggesting degradation of peripheral ecosystems. Underlying causes, an increase in the gross domestic product (GDP), and demographic variations were of high importance in explaining the probability of expansion in the region. We suggest that the systematic transition from peri-urban soil to impervious cover in the South American tropics is key to both local and global land surface energy balance.

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WITHDRAWN: Cities expansion drivers and maximum temperatures variation in the Tropics

Bonilla-Bedoya

Žalakevičiūtė

Santos

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…We still know surprisingly little about how these ecological and evolutionary changes compare across diverse taxa and regions, their mechanisms and the extent to which they are parallel. Recent calls for implementing a more systematic framework and experimental approaches to evaluate species' evolutionary responses and plasticity stress the importance of rigorous sampling and comparable measures of urban features in ecological and genetic studies (Dunn et al, 2022; Fusco et al, 2021). A promising approach is to focus on how urbanization affects other successful social species.…”

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Becoming urban: How city life shapes the social structure and genetics of ants

Janda

2022

Molecular Ecology

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Cities and urban environments can do peculiar things to biodiversity that shares them with us. How cities affect their invited and uninvited inhabitants has become an increasingly important question. More than half of the world's population dwells in urban areas, and these environments will keep expanding considerably. Understanding how this relatively recent, rapid, and pervasive form of landscape modification influences the ecology and evolution of organisms that cannot escape, or may benefit from it, is an emerging field of biology. Although we are aware of how some birds, mammals or plants respond to urban environments, less is known about insects and invertebrates in general. In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Blumenfeld et al. (2022) bring new remarkable insights into how a common ant species adjusts to urban settings across the United States by changing its social structure and behaviour. Using a large‐scale molecular, chemical and behavioural dataset, they document how the odorous house ant Tapinoma sessile differs in its colony organisation and dispersal strategy between rural and urban habitats. In each of the study regions and continent‐wide, rural and urban colonies are genetically and chemically differentiated, suggesting that urban settings act as potent agents of selection and isolation. The novelty and importance of this study are that it documents multiple independent transitions toward the same social organisation and the apparent effect of habitat on the life history of a eusocial insect species.

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“…This outcome depends on species-specific responses to the distribution of landscape features and should be incorporated into models of zoonotic risk and the development of hazard management programs. Movement barriers reduce connectivity by limiting species movement through physiological limitations (e.g., inability to cross waterways, impervious surface) or behavioral avoidance (e.g., road traffic, noise) (Clark et al, 2010;Fusco et al, 2021;Munshi-South, 2012). Typically, habitat isolation reduces the invasion potential of pathogens, but if pathogens generate immune-dependent responses in host populations, patch isolation can increase future susceptibility.…”

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Socio‐ecological drivers of multiple zoonotic hazards in highly urbanized cities

Combs

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VanAcker

et al. 2021

Global Change Biology

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Urban Landscape Genetics: Are Biologists Keeping Up with the Pace of Urbanization?

Cited by 28 publications

References 64 publications

WITHDRAWN: Cities expansion drivers and maximum temperatures variation in the Tropics

WITHDRAWN: Cities expansion drivers and maximum temperatures variation in the Tropics

Becoming urban: How city life shapes the social structure and genetics of ants

Socio‐ecological drivers of multiple zoonotic hazards in highly urbanized cities

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