Lincoln, Nebraska
lizards
local adaptation
London
Long Point Bird Observatory
Los Angeles
Losos, Jonathan
Lowline Lab
luxury effect
MacArthur, Robert
Madrid
Majerus, Michael
Malaysia
mammals 174
Manchester
mange
Manhattan. See also New York City
Mannahatta Project
markers. See DNA markers
Marseille
medium ground finch
melanism. See also industrial melanism
Melbourne
Mexico City
mice
migration
Milan
milk bottles (opened by birds)
millipede
mites
Mockford, Millie
mockingbird
Moeliker, Kees
Montpellier
Mori Building Company
Moscow
mosquitoes
mosquitofish
moth
ermine
peppered
purple emperor 76
silver-Y
mugwort
Mumbai
mummichog
Munich
Munshi-South, Jason
museums. See natural history museums
mutation
mynah
myrmecophiles
Nabokov, Vladimir
native species
natural history museums
naturalists
natural selection. See also selection; sexual selection
nature
nematode worm
neophilia
nests (ant)
nests (bird)
Netherlands
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Mexico
New York City
New Zealand
Ng, Peter
Ng Heok Hee
nicotine
Nihei, Yoshiaki
Njunjić, Iva
noise
Nonnekens, A.C.
Numata, Shinya
nuthatch
Obhukova, N. Yu.
Of Moths and Men (Hooper)
Olsztyn, Poland
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Op de Beeck, Lin
orchid
Osorno, Chile
ovenbird
Overton, Jacob
Owen, Denis
owl
oystercatcher
PAHs
Paris
Parker, Joe
Partecke, Jesko
PCBs
Peet, Margriet
peppered moth
peregrine falcon
personality
Philadelphia
Phoenix
phylogeography
pigeons
rock
pitch (of animal song). See also bird song
plants
plasticity
PLoS ONE
Plzeň, Czech Republic
pollution
air
chemical
light
noise
water
potassium
pre-adaptation
pristine pockets
problem-solving
Puerto Ayora
Puerto Rican crested anole
Puerto Rico
puzzle box
Pyšek, Petr
Raffles, Stamford
rainforests
raintree
rapid evolution. See see evolution
Reba, Meredith
red-eared slider
Red Queen evolution
reproductive isolation
Reumer, Jelle
Rietkerk, Sabine
ring-neck parakeet
Ripmeester, Erwin
RNA
roads
road salting
robin
robo-squirrel
rock pigeon
Rome
Ronaldo, Cristiano
Roppongi Hills
Rotterdam
rowan tree
Saccheri, Ilik
Sanderson, Eric
San Diego
San Francisco
Santoul, Frédéric
São Paolo
satoyama
Save the House Crow
Schäfer, Martin
Schieffelin, Eugene
Schouw, Joakim
Seattle
seeds
selection coefficient
selection. See also natural selection; sexual selection
hard
soft
Senar, Juan Carlos
Sendai, Japan
Serieys, Laurel
serotonin
SERT gene
sex hormones
sexual behavior
sexual selection
Shachak, Moshe
Shakespeare, William
Shanghai
Sheffield
Shetland Isles
Siebold, Philipp Franz von
Silent Spring (Carson)
Silva, Carmen Paz
silvereyes
silver-Y moth
Singapore
snails
SnailSnap
snipe
soapberry bug
Sodhi, Navjot
soft selection. See selection soft
soundscape
Southampton
Spain
Spanier, Mr.
sparrow
chipping
hedge 88
house 46–47
rufous-collared
song
tree
sparrowhawk
speciation
spider
bridge
cellar
Spoelstra, Kamiel
springtail
squirrels
gray
palm
red
Staniel Cay, Bahamas
starling
stress
Strong, Donald
Suárez-Rodriguez, Monserrat
sugar sachets (opened by birds)
Sukopp, Herbert
Superfund sites
supertramp
Sutton, Stephen
swallows
swifts
Sydney
Symonds, Matthew
Szulkin, Marta
Takeda, Yawara
Tan Heok Hui
telecoupling
temperature
Temuco, Chile
testosterone
Tinbergen, Niko
tits
blue
great
Tokyo
tolerance (of humans)
tortoises
traffic
transposon
tree disks
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
trophic levels
Tryjanowski, Piotr
Tutt, J.W.
Tüzün, Nedim
UK10K
underground green spaces
Underground mosquito
urban agriculture
urban greening
urban heat island (UHI)
urbanization
urbanization gradients
Urban Naturalist
urban naturalists
urban nature field guides
urban planning
Uwajima, Japan
vacuum cleaner effect
Valdivia, Chile
Vancouver
Vermeij, Geerat
Verzijden, Machteld
Vienna
vole, common 244
Wallace, Alfred Russel
walnut
warblers
Ward, Peter
Warsaw
wasp, parasitic
water
flea
weasel
weather loach
Wellington, New Zealand
white-footed mouse
Whitehead, Andrew
Williamsburg Trolley Terminal
Wilson, Edward O.
Winchell, Kristin
wing colour (of moths). See peppered moth
wing shape (of birds)
wisteria
Wittig, Rüdiger
woodpeckers
woolly rambutan
Wytham Woods
Xu Yonglan
Yeang, Ken
Yeh, Pamela
yellowhammer
yellow monkey flower
zinc
Zugunruhe
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN is a senior research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands and professor of evolutionary biology at Leiden University. The author of more than 100 papers in scientific literature, he has also written more than 250 stories, columns, and articles for publications including New Scientist, Time, and Science. A frequent guest on radio and television, he is the author of three previous books: Frogs, Flies and Dandelions (2001), The Loom of Life (2008), and Nature’s Nether Regions (2014). Together with Iva Njunjić, he runs Taxon Expeditions, which organizes scientific expeditions for lay people. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
CITY PORTAL
I. CITY LIFE
1. NATURE’S ULTIMATE ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER
2. THE ANT(HROPO)-HILL
3. DOWNTOWN ECOLOGY
4. URBAN NATURALISTS
5. CITY SLICKERS
6. IF I CAN MAKE IT THERE
II. CITYSCAPES
7. THESE ARE THE FACTS
8. URBAN MYTHS
9. SO IT REALLY IS
10. TOWN MOUSE, COUNTRY MOUSE
11. POISONING PIGEONS IN THE PARK
12. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
13. BUT IS IT REALLY EVOLUTION?
III. CITY ENCOUNTERS
14. CLOSE URBAN ENCOUNTERS
15. SELF-DOMESTICATION
16. SONGS OF THE CITY
17. SEX AND THE CITY
18. TURDUS URBANICUS
IV. DARWIN CITY
19. EVOLUTION IN A TELECOUPLED WORLD
20. DESIGN IT WITH DARWIN
OUTSKIRT
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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