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Sensory pollutants alter bird phenology and fitness across a continent
Human-generated noise and night lighting affect breeding habits and fitness in birds, implying that sensory pollutants must be considered alongside other environmental factors in assessing biodiversity conservation.
- Masayuki Senzaki
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- & Clinton D. Francis
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Zoonotic host diversity increases in human-dominated ecosystems
Wildlife communities in human-managed ecosystems contain proportionally more species that share human pathogens, and at a higher abundance, than undisturbed habitats, suggesting that landscape transformation creates increasing opportunities for contact between humans and potential hosts of human disease.
- Rory Gibb
- , David W. Redding
- & Kate E. Jones
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Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities
The urban-heat-island effect drives community-level shifts towards smaller body sizes; however, habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization favours larger body sizes in species with positive size–dispersal links.
- Thomas Merckx
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- & Hans Van Dyck
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Cigarette butts repel nest pests
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The science of cities: Life in the concrete jungle
Ecologists are exploring how people, buildings, wildlife and pollution interact in the world's cities.
- Courtney Humphries
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Correspondence |
Bat deaths from wind turbine blades
- Angelo Capparella
- , Sabine Loew
- & David K. Meyerholz
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Future ozone from planes and boats
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The trouble with turbines: An ill wind
With turbines threatening some bird and bat populations, researchers are seeking ways to keep the skies safe for wildlife.
- Meera Subramanian
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Hydropower threatens Andes–Amazon link
Framework study warns of environmental impact of widespread dam construction.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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Noise nixes seed spread
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Carbon parks in the city
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Stress and the city
Many of us were raised or currently live in an urban environment. A neuroimaging study now reveals how this affects brain function when an individual is faced with a stressful situation. See Letter p.498
- Daniel P. Kennedy
- & Ralph Adolphs
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City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans
- Florian Lederbogen
- , Peter Kirsch
- & Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
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Evolution in the urban jungle
Tuberculosis resistance is most prevalent in city slickers.
- Ewen Callaway
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Books & Arts |
Q&A: Peter Hessler on urbanization in China
In Country Driving, the final book in his China trilogy, Peter Hessler recounts his 11,000-kilometre drive across China to see at first hand the effects of rapid industrialization. The New Yorker journalist explains how mass migration to cities brings out people's resourcefulness, but also how the speed of social and environmental change leads them to seek meaning in their lives.
- Jane Qiu
Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks