Kiyoko M. Gotanda

TL;DR: Evidence on the mechanisms linking urban development patterns to rapid evolutionary changes for species that play important functional roles in communities and ecosystems is presented and a clear urban signal is shown.

TL;DR: It is reported that aspects of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration, along with the North Atlantic Oscillation, predicted variation in selection across plant and animal populations throughout many terrestrial biomes, whereas temperature explained little variation.

TL;DR: It is found that selection tends to vary mainly in strength and less in direction among populations, which may limit the potential for ongoing adaptive population divergence.

TL;DR: In a recent special issue as discussed by the authors, the authors investigated the human-induced contemporary evolution in a number of "contexts", including hunting, harvesting, fishing, agriculture, medicine, climate change, pollution, eutrophication, urbanization, habitat fragmentation, biological invasions and emerging/disappearing diseases.

TL;DR: In a field study on parrotfishes, the authors tested the predictions that flight initiation distance (FID) in response to a diver will increase with body size, a correlate of reproductive value, and with experience of threat from humans.