Projektnummer

0052505

Zusammenfassung

The human impact in the global biosphere now controls many major facets of ecosystem function. One of the most striking man-made environmental changes is the existence and rapidly ongoing spread of urban areas. Human ecological impact has enormous evolutionary consequences as well and can greatly accelerate evolutionary change in the species around us. It is well established that urban areas have been successfully colonized by animals. However, less is known about the extent to which urbanization causes micro-evolutionary changes in animals thriving in urban areas. In a combined labora...