Media & Publications
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Science
Life without ice
Ensia
Should plants and animals that relocate because of climate change be considered invasive?
The Guardian
Ice will return but extinctions can't be reversed
WNPR
For Climate Change Science, the Need for Basic Biology Is Urgent
New York Times
T-shirt weather in the Arctic
Discover Magazine
#15 Top Science Stories of 2015
New York Times
Study Finds Climate Change as Threat to 1 in 6 Species
UConn Magazine
Study Finds Climate Change as Threat to 1 in 6 Species
CNN Video
Emaciated polar bear, what's to blame?
BBC
Climate change risk to 'one in six species'
Aeon
Backyard Evolution
Publications
2022
Urban, M. C., J. M. J. Travis, D. Zurell, P. L. Thompson, N. W. Synes, A. Scarpa, P. R. Peres-Neto, A.-K. Malchow, P. M. A. James, D. Gravel, L. De Meester, C. Brown, G. Bocedi, C. H. Albert, A. Gonzalez, and A. P. Hendry. 2022. Coding for Life: Designing a Platform for Projecting and Protecting Global Biodiversity. Bioscience. 72: 91-104.
Nadeau, C. P., A. Giacomazzo, and M. C. Urban. 2022. Cool microrefugia accumulate and conserve biodiversity under climate change. Global Change Biology. 28: 3222-3235.
Giery, S. T., D. L. Drake, and M. C. Urban. 2021. Microgeographic evolution of metabolic physiology in a salamander metapopulation. Ecology. 102(11): e03488.
Nadeau, C. P., T. E. Farkas, A. M. Makkay, R. T. Papke, and M. C. Urban. 2021. Adaptation reduces competitive dominance and alters community assembly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288: 20203133.
Urban, M. C., C. Merow, J. L. Wegrzyn, B. S. Maitner, and D. Corcoran. 2021. How to publish at pandemic speed. Bioscience. 71: 1001-1003.
Golden, H. E., K. E. Holsinger, L. A. Deegan, C. J. MacKenzie, and M. C. Urban.2021. River drying influences genetic variation and population structure in an Arctic freshwater fish. Conservation genetics. 22: 369-382..
Giery, S. T., M. Zimova, D. L. Drake, M. C. Urban. 2021. Balancing selection and drift in a polymorphic salamander metapopulation. Biology Letters. 17: 20200901.
Govaert, L., F. Altermatt, L. De Meester, M. A. Leibold, M. A. McPeek, J. H. Pantel, and M. C. Urban. 2021. Integrating fundamental processes to understand ecoevolutionary community dynamics and patterns. Functional Ecology. 35:2138-2155.
2020
Urban, M. C. 2020. Life without ice. Science. 367:719-719
Urban, M. C. 2020. Climate-tracking species are not invasive. Nature Climate Change. 10:382-384
Urban, M.C. et al. 2020. Evolutionary origins for ecological patterns in space. PNAS 117 (30) 17482-17490
Evans, A.E., E.L. Jockusch, and M.C. Urban. 2020. Developmental temperature infuences color polymorphism but not hatchling size in a woodland salamander. Oecologia (2020) 192:909–918
Des Roches, S. et al. 2020. Socio-Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Cities. Evolutionary Applications. DOI 10.1111/eva.13065
Merow, C. and M.C. Urban 2020. Seasonality and uncertainty in COVID-19 growth rates. MedRxiv. DOI 10.1101/2020.04.19.20071951
Jeliazkov, A. et al. 2020. A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space. Sci Data 7:6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0344-7.
2019
Urban, M.C. 2019. Maladapted prey subsidize predators and facilitate range expansion. The American Naturalist 104:590-612.
Urban, M.C. 2019. Projecting biological impacts from climate change like a climate scientist. WIREs Climate Change DOI:10.1002/wcc.585
Nadeau, C.P. and M.C. Urban. 2019. Eco-evolution on the edge during climate change. Ecography 42: 1280-1297.
Leibold, M.A., M.C. Urban, L. De Meester, C.A. Klausmeier, and J. Vanoverbeke. 2019. Regional neutrality evolves through local adaptive niche evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116: 2612 – 2617.
De Meester, L., K.I. Brans, L. Govaert, C. Souffreau, S. Mukherjee, H. Vanvelk, K. Korzeniowski, L. Kilsdonk, E. Decaestecker, R. Stoks, and M.C. Urban. 2019. Analysing ecoevolutionary dynamics – The challenging complexity of the real world. Functional Ecology. 33: 43 – 59.
2018
Urban, M.C. 2018. Escalator to extinction. PNAS. 115:11871-11873.
Evans, A. E., B. R. Forester, E. L. Jockusch, and M. C. Urban. 2018. Salamander morph frequencies do not evolve as predicted in response to 40 years of climate change. Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.03588
Urban, M. C. and R. Roehm. 2018. The road to higher permanence and biodiversity in exurban wetlands. Oecologia. 186:291-302.
Amburgey, S. M., D. A. Miller, E. H. Campbell Grant, T. A. Rittenhouse, M. F. Benard, J. L. Richardson, M. C. Urban, W. Hughson, A. B. Brand, and C. J. Davis. Range position and climate sensitivity: The structure of among-population demographic responses to climatic variation. Global Change Biology. 24:439-454.
2017
Nadeau, C. P., M. C. Urban, and J. R. Bridle. 2017. Climates past, present, and yet-to-come shape climate change vulnerabilities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 32:786-800.
Urban, M. C., P. L. Zarnetske and D. K. Skelly. 2017. Searching for Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57:134–147.
Urban, M. C. J. L. Richardson, N. A. Freidenfelds, D. L. Drake, J. F. Fischer, and P. P. Saunders. 2017. Microgeographic adaptation of Wood Frog tadpoles to an apex predator. Copeia 105(3):451-461.
Nadeau, C. P., M. C. Urban and J. R. Bridle. 2017. Coarse climate change projections for species living in a fine-scaled world. Global Change Biology, 23: 12–24. doi:10.1111/gcb.13475 Link
2016
Urban, M. C., G. Bocedi, A. P. Hendry, J.-B. Mihoub , G. Pe’er , A. Singer, J. R. Bridle, L. G. Crozier, L. De Meester, W. Godsoe, A. Gonzalez, J. J. Hellmann, R. D. Holt, A. Huth, K. Johst, C. B. Krug , P. W. Leadley , S. C. F. Palmer, J. H. Pantel, A. Schmitz, P. A. Zollner, J. M. J. Travis. 2016. Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change. Science 353 (6304).
Davies, T. J., M. C. Urban, B. Rayfield, M. W. Cadotte and P. R. Peres-Neto. 2016. Deconstructing the relationship between phylogenetic diversity and ecology: a case study on ecosystem functioning. Ecology. 97:2212-2222.
De Meester, L., J. Vanoverbeke, L. J. Kilsdonk, and M. C. Urban. 2016. Evolving perspectives on monopolization and priority effects. Trends in Ecology and Evolution: 31: 136–146.
Vanoverbeke, J., M. C. Urban, and L. De Meester. 2016. Community assembly is a race between immigration and adaptation: eco-evolutionary interactions across spatial scales. Ecography 38 doi: 10.1111/ecog.01394.
2015
Urban, M. C. 2015. Accelerating extinction risk from climate change. Science. 348 (6234):571-573.
Urban, M. C. and J. L. Richardson. 2015. The Evolution of foraging rate across local and geographic gradients in predation risk and competition. The American Naturalist.
Henriques-Silva, R., F. Boivin, V. Calcagno, M. C. Urban, and P. R. Peres-Neto. 2015. On the evolution of dispersal via heterogeneity in spatial connectivity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 282:20142879.
Cunningham, H. R., L. J. Rissler , L. B. Buckley, and M. C. Urban. 2015. Abiotic and biotic constraints across reptile and amphibian ranges Ecography. 38: 001–008.
2014
Richardson, J. L., M. C. Urban, D. I. Bolnick, and D. K. Skelly. 2014. Microgeographic adaptation and the spatial scale of evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 29(3): 165-176.
Urban, M. C., J. L. Richardson, and N. A. Freidenfelds. 2014. Plasticity and genetic adaptation mediate amphibian and reptile responses to climate change. Evolutionary Applications. 7: 88-103.
2013
Jones, C. S., and M. C. Urban. 2013. Promise and pitfalls of a gender-blind faculty search. BioScience 63(8): 611-612.
Richardson, J. L., and M. C. Urban. 2013. Strong selection barriers explain microgeographic adaptation in wild salamander populations. Evolution. 67(6): 1729-1740.
Urban, M. C., P. L. Zarnetske, and D. K. Skelly. 2013. Moving forward: dispersal and species interactions determine biotic responses to climate change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1297: 44-60.
Urban, M. C., R. Bürger, and D.I. Bolnick. 2013. Asymmetric selection and the evolution of extraordinary defences. Nature Communications. 4, Article number: 2085.
2012
Norberg, J., M. C. Urban, M. Vellend, C. A. Klausmeier, and N. Loeuille. 2012. Eco-evolutionary responses of biodiversity to climate change. Nature Climate Change.
Urban, M. C., L. De Meester, M. Vellend, R. Stoks, and J. Vanoverbeke. 2012. A crucial step toward realism: responses to climate change from an evolving metacommunity perspective. Evolutionary Applications 5: 154–167.
Zarnetske, P. L., D. K. Skelly, and M. C. Urban. 2012. Biotic multipliers of climate change. Science. 336:1516-1518.
Urban, M. C., J. J. Tewksbury, and K. S. Sheldon. 2012. On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 2072-2080.
2011
Urban, M. C. 2011. The evolution of species interactions across natural landscapes. Ecology Letters. 14: 723-732.
Urban, M. C., Gilman, S. E., J. Tewksbury, and R. D. Holt. 2011. Heating up relations between cold fish : competition modifies responses to climate change. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80: 505-507.
Bolnick, D. I., P. Amarasekare, M. S. Araujo, R. Burger, J. M. Levine, M. Novak, V. H. W. Rudolf, S. J. Schreiber, M. C. Urban, and D. A. Vasseur. 2011. Why intraspecific variation matters in community ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 26(4): 183-192.
2010
Gilman, S. E., M. C. Urban, J. Tewksbury, G. W. Gilchrist, & R. D. Holt. 2010. A framework for community interactions under climate change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25(6): 325-331.
Buckley, L. B., M. C. Urban, M. J. Angilletta, L. Crozier, L. J. Rissler, & M. W. Sears. 2010. Contrasting correlative and mechanistic models of species ranges : putting concepts into practice. Ecology Letters. 13: 1041-1054.
Urban, M. C. 2010. Microgeographic adaptation of larval salamander morphologies across landscape gradients in two predation threats. Oikos. 119(4): 646-658.
2009
Urban, M. C., & L. De Meester. 2009. Community monopolization: local adaptation enhances priority effects in an evolving metacommunity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 4129-4138.
2008
Urban, M. C. 2008. Salamander evolution across a latitudinal cline in gape-limited predation risk. Oikos. 117: 1037-1049.
Urban, M. C. et al. 2008. The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23(6): 311-317.
* Rated #1 hottest article in TREE for Apr. - Sept. 2008
Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine. 2008. The toad more traveled: the heterogeneous invasion dynamics of cane toads in Australia. American Naturalist. 171(3): E134-E148.
Urban, M. C. 2008. The evolution of prey body size reaction norms in diverse communities. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77: 346-355.
Urban, M. C. 2008. Ecological Genetics. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Chichester.
2007
Urban, M. C. 2007. The growth-predation risk tradeoff under a growing gape-limited predation threat. Ecology. 88(10): 2587-2597
Urban, M. C. 2007. Predator size and phenology shape prey survival in temporary ponds. Oecologia. 154: 571-580.
Urban, M. C. 2007. Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 104(36): 14377-14382.
* Covered by Science News, National Geographic, The New Scientist, et al.
Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine. 2007. The cane toad’s (Chaunus [Bufo] marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 274: 1413-1419.
* Recommended by A. Hendry in the Faculty of 1000
* Covered by Nature News, BBC, Today Show Australia, et al.
2006
Urban, M. C. 2006. Maladaptation and mass-effects in a metacommunity: consequences for species coexistence. American Naturalist. 168(1): 28-40.
Urban, M. C. and D. K. Skelly. 2006. Evolving metacommunities: Toward an evolutionary perspective on metacommunities. Ecology. 87(7): 1616-1626.
Urban, M. C. 2006. Road facilitation of trematode infections in snails of northern Alaska. Conservation Biology. 20(4): 1143:1149.
Urban, M. C., D. K. Skelly, D. Burchsted, W. Price, S. Lowry. 2006. Stream communities across a rural-urban landscape gradient. Diversity and Distributions. 12:337-350.
* Recommended by A. Hendry in the Faculty of 1000
Urban, M. C. 2006. Conservation beyond community (Book Review). Conservation Biology. 20: 1330.
2005
Skelly, D. K., M. A. Halverson, L. K. Freidenburg, and M. C. Urban. 2005. Canopy closure and amphibian biodiversity in forested wetlands. Wetlands Ecology & Management. 13:261-268.
2004
Urban, M. C. 2004. Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater metacommunity structure. Ecology. 85(11): 2971-2978.