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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all, I must thank Peter Tallack and the other people at the Science Factory (Louisa Pritchard and Tisse Takagi), for believing in the book and finding a home for it, and editor Richard Milner at Quercus, and James Meader at Picador, for guiding me through the production process.
My friend and colleague Satoshi Chiba kindly arranged for me to come on a two-months’ writing retreat at Tōhoku University in Sendai, Japan, which made it possible to finish the final third of the book in a tranquil and beautiful environment (and which explains the distinctly Japanese flavor of that part of the book). I thank him, his family, his students, and Naito Hiroko for creating such a welcoming atmosphere and for taking my mind off writing by organizing regular caving and other field trips. Suzanne Williams, Ellinor Michel, and Jon Ablett of the Natural History Museum, London, hosted me twice for one week of blissful writing, which effectively took place in the Mollusca department, the NHM restaurant, the Victoria & Albert Museum restaurant, the British Library, Lea Banwell’s Bed & Breakfast, and the South Kensington Pret a Manger. Other places that provided, either wittingly or unwittingly, a cushioned writing environment, were, in no particular order, Maliau Basin Studies Center in Malaysian Borneo, Düsseldorf Airport, Hotel Čertousy in Prague, the Ouibus between Paris and Amsterdam, Darko Jesic’s Paris apartment, the Groningen University’s field center in Schiermonnikoog (“De Herdershut”), Willer highway express bus between Tokyo and Sendai, Flight SQ323 of Singapore Airlines, Ahbam’s homestay in Sukau, and the Nexus Karambunai hotel lobby in Kota Kinabalu.
Many scientists and other knowledgeable persons answered questions, proofread bits of text, or supplied me with photos or research materials. I am grateful to: Néstor Alirio, Jacques van Alphen, Florian Altermatt, Garry Bakker, Olga Barbosa, Lin Op de Beeck, Herman Berkhoudt, Pierre-Paul Bitton, Edwin Brosens, Scott Carroll, Jason Chapman, Marion Chatelain, Pierre-Olivier Cheptou, Kayla Coldsnow, Julien Cucherousset, Curt Daehler, Cat Davidson, Luis Fernando De León, Thom van Dooren, Stephanie Doucet, Meghan Duffy, Janko Duinker, Naim Edwards, Clinton Francis, Max Galka, Kevin Gaston, József Geml, Wouter Halfwerk, Adam Hart, Axel Hochkirch, Bert Hölldobler, Wendy Jesse, Marc Johnson, Masakado Kawata, Gail Kuhnlein, Kate Kuykendall, Ariane Le Gros, Isabel López-Rull, Suzanne MacDonald, Emma Marris, Bennie Meek, Martin Melchers, Osamu Mikami, Erik van Nieukerken, Joe Parker, Jesko Partecke, Carmen Paz, Norbert Peeters, Paloma Plant, Lidy Poot, Alexander Reeuwijk, David Rentz, Jelle Reumer, Ignacio Ribera, Erwin Ripmeester, Milena Salgado-Lynn, Eric Sanderson, Frédéric Santoul, Juan Carlos Senar, Laurel Serieys, Frédérique Soulard, Kamiel Spoelstra, Danica Stark, Monserrat Suárez-Rodriguez, Stephen Sutton, Matt Symonds, Etsuro Takagi, Tan Siong Kiat, Piotr Tryjanowski, Nedim Tüzün, Geerat Vermeij, Oscar Vorst, Gijsbert Werner, Thomas Wesener, Monica Wesseling, Kristin Winchell, John van Wyhe, Bakhtiar Effendi Yahya, and Pamela Yeh.
Several colleagues invested considerably more time by letting me interview them in person or over Skype, or by engaging in lengthy email correspondence. These were Marina Alberti, Jean-Nicolas Audet, Laurence Cook, Karl Evans, Tetsuro Hosaka, Kees Moeliker, Jason Munshi-South, Shinya Numata, Laurel Serieys, Hans Slabbekoorn, Andrew Whitehead, and Niels de Zwarte.
Throughout this book project, friends and colleagues regularly sent me bits of news, social media posts, and scientific papers on urban evolution. Particularly active were Aglaia Bouma, Bronwen Scott, and Rutger Vos, but I also received valuable tips from Thijmen Breeschoten, Tom Van Dooren, Barbara Gravendeel, Marco Roos, and Martin Rücklin. Other sources I would like to acknowledge for their help are the library of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Wikipedia and its wikipedians, all the readers of my New York Times article who contacted me (and especially Michael McGuire and Barbara Waugh), the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, and my students at the Leiden University MSc-course Orientation in Biodiversity and Conservation.
Minoru Chiba and Yawara Takeda took us on a trip through Sendai to find nutcracker-crows. My daughter Fenna Schilthuizen g
oaded me through Roppongi Hills in Tokyo. Chan Sow-Yan guided me on a voyage through the urban nature of Singapore. Sabine Rietkerk corresponded with me on the whereabouts and fate of the Hoek van Holland house crows.
Auke-Florian Hiemstra’s pep-talk gave me the courage to drag myself through the final days of working on the book.
Three people very close to me were willing to proofread the entire manuscript as it matured. These were Aglaia Bouma, Iva Njunjić and Frank van Rooij, and I am immensely grateful to them for their time, understanding, and clever comments.
Finally, while many people helped me with proofreading and catching errors, I take responsibility for the final content of the text, and the interpretations of research results.
INDEX
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accumulation curve
acorn ant
acoustic ecology
Adams, Douglas
adaptation
adaptive radiation
agriculture. See also urban agriculture
Ahern, Michael James
AHR (aryl hydrocarbon receptor)
ALAN. See Artificial Light At Night
Alberti, Marina
Albi, France
Al-Hiyali, Sedik
alligator
Altermatt, Florian
Ambasz, Emilio
American Acclimatization Society
American black cherry
American cliff swallow
American redstart
Amsterdam
Amsterdam Wildlife (film)
annulet moth
Anolis lizard
anthropophiles
ants
Aplin, Lucy
apple maggot fly
architecture
arthopods
Artificial Light At Night (ALAN)
Attenborough, Sir David
Audet, Jean-Nicolas
Australia
Australian brush-turkey
azure damselfly
balloon vine
Baltimore
Bamberg, Germany
Bangalore
Barbados
Barbosa, Olga
Barcelona
Basel
bass
bats
beak shape
beaver
Becker, Ute
bed bug
beetles
Amphotis marginata
brown cloud
clown
ditto rove
jewel
rhinoceros 193–94
rove
water
behaviour
Beijing
Belles de Bitume
Berlin
Bialystock, Poland
Biobank
Bioblitz
biodiversity
biological clock
biome
bird calls
birds
bird song
Birmingham
Bitton, Pierre-Paul
blackbird
blackcaps
Block Island
blue tit. See tit, blue
bobcat
Boeri, Stefano
Bomberger-Brown, Mary
Bonaparte, Charles Lucien
Borneo
Bosco Verticale
bowerbird, satin
Bracknell, Britain
Bridgeport, Connecticut
bridge spider
Bridgetown, Barbados
Brisbane
Brook, Barry
broom
Brown, Charles
Brussels
BUGS project
bulbul
bullfinch
butterflies
Byrne, Katharine
Cadbury Bird Preserve
camouflage
Caribbean
carrion crow
Carroll, Scott
cars
Carson, Rachel
catfish
cat’s ear
cellar spider
Chandler, Tony
Chan Sow-Yan
Chatelain, Marion
Cheptou, Pierre-Olivier
Chiba, Minoru
Chicago
chickadees
chiffchaff
Chile
China
Chocholoušková, Zdena
Chongqing
Christmas Bird Count
chromosomes
chuckwalla
cichlid fish
cigarettes
citizen science
City Nature Challenge
Claviger testaceus
Cody, Martin
Coldsnow, Kayla
color. See industrial melanism; melanism
common garden experiments
community initiatives
copper
cordgrass
corn
corn borer
corridors
cortex gene
corticosterone
courtship
Coyne, Jerry
coyote
creationism
cricket
crocodile
crow
carrion
nutcracker
Cucherousset, Julien
cuckoo
culture (of animals). See learning
Daehler, Curtis
damselflies
Daphnia
dark-eyed junco
darwin (measure of evolutionary speed)
Darwin, Charles
Darwin Correspondence Project
darwinian architecture
Darwin’s finches
DDT
De Léon, Luis Fernando
detoxification
development
Diamond, Sarah
diatom alga
disease
display (behavior)
DNA
DNA markers
domestication
Dooren, Thom van
Dorset
dove
Ducatez, Simon
eagle
ecology
ecosystem
ecosystem engineers
Edleston, R.S.
Egypt
Eisenbeis, Gerhard
Elton, Charles
embryo development
epigenetics
Erlanger, Germany
estrogen
Evans, Karl
evolution
human
rapid
speed of
urban
evolutionary cyle
evolutionary trap
EvoScope
exotic species
extinction
Farn, Albert Brydges
feathers
fern
FID. See Flight Initiation Distance
finches. See also Darwin’s finches; house finches
Fisher, James
Fisher, Ronald
fishes
fleas
flies
flight endurance
Flight Initiation Distance (FID)
Florida
Florizoone, Guy
flycatchers
food webs
football
Ford, E.B. “Henry”
Formica rufa
Fortaleza, Brazil
foxes
fragmentation (of habitat)
Francis, Clinton
freshwater
frogs
Fukuda, Mitsuhisa
Fukuoka, Japan
fungi
Funky Nest Contest
Galápagos
garden privet
gardens, urban 58–61
rooftop
underground
vertical
Gaston, Kevin
&nbs
p; gecko
Gehrt, Stanley
gene
switching on
gene pool
genetic code
genetic drift
genetic signature
genetic structure
genetic variation, standing
genome
gerbil
global homogenization
Global Urban Soil Ecology and Education Network (GLUSEEN)
godwit
Graham, Brendan
grasses
grasshoppers
gray squirrel. See squirrel, gray
great tit. See tit, great
green roofs
greenways
grouse
Haldane, J.B.S.
Halfwerk, Wouter
hard selection. See selection
Harris, Stephen
Hart, Adam
hawk
hawksbeard
heat island. See urban heat island
heavy metals
hedgehog
Heiling, Astrid
Henslow, John Stevens
herbivores
highways
Hinde, Robert
HIREC. See Human-Induced Rapid Evolutionary Change
Hölldobler, Bert
honest signaling
Hong Kong
Hooper, Judith
hormones
Hosaka, Tetsuro
house crow
house finch
house sparrow
Hudson, Henry
Huisman, Jef
human-engineered ecosystem
Human-Induced Rapid Evolutionary Change (HIREC)
human population history
hummingbird
Hunter, Cornelius
iguana
immunity
impervious surfaces
inbreeding
incubator bird
India
industrial melanism
insecticides and pesticides
insects
introduced species
invasive species
island biogeography
isolation
ivy
jackdaws
Jacquin, Lisa
Japan
Japanese knotweed
jays
jet ant
jewel beetle
Jones, Clive
Jones, Darryl
junko. See dark-eyed junko
Kettlewell, Bernard
Kettlewell, Hazel
Khanna, Parag
Lagos
Lampe, Ulrike
Lawton, John
lead
leaf beetle
learning
Le Gros, Ariane
Leicester
Leiden
Leipzig
Life of Birds, The (BBC series)
light (artificial)
limb shape