Kristien I. Brans

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that urban communities generally consist of smaller species, and that the general trend towards smaller-sized species is overruled by filtering for larger species when there is positive covariation between size and dispersal, which can mitigate the low connectivity of ecological resources in urban settings.

TL;DR: The results provide evidence of adaptive thermal evolution to urbanization in the water flea Daphnia and show both evolutionary potential and adaptive plasticity in rural as well as urban Daphnian populations, facilitating responses to warming.

TL;DR: The results provide strong support to the general negative impact of urbanization on abundance and species richness within habitat patches and highlight the importance of considering multiple spatial scales and taxa to assess the impacts of urbanized biodiversity.

TL;DR: Understanding urban adaptation offers unique opportunities for addressing fundamental questions in evolutionary biology and for better conserving biodiversity in cities, but capitalizing on these opportunities requires appropriate research methods and dissemination of accurate narratives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss potential pitfalls of building a framework on eco-evolutionary dynamics that is based on data on single species studied in isolation from interspecific interactions, which can lead to both under-and overestimation of the impact of evolution on ecological processes.