Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Personal tools

You are here: Home
3259 items matching your search terms.
Filter the results.
Item type



































New items since



Sort by relevance · date (newest first) · alphabetically
Article Reference Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities
Body size is intrinsically linked to metabolic rate and life-history traits, and is a crucial determinant of food webs and community dynamics1,2. The increased temperatures associated with the urban-heat-island effect result in increased metabolic costs and are expected to drive shifts to smaller body sizes3. Urban environments are, however, also characterized by substantial habitat fragmentation4, which favours mobile species. Here, using a replicated, spatially nested sampling design across ten animal taxonomic groups, we show that urban communities generally consist of smaller species. In addition, although we show urban warming for three habitat types and associated reduced community-weighted mean body sizes for four taxa, three taxa display a shift to larger species along the urbanization gradients. Our results show that the general trend towards smaller-sized species is overruled by filtering for larger species when there is positive covariation between size and dispersal, a process that can mitigate the low connectivity of ecological resources in urban settings5. We thus demonstrate that the urban-heat-island effect and urban habitat fragmentation are associated with contrasting community-level shifts in body size that critically depend on the association between body size and dispersal. Because body size determines the structure and dynamics of ecological networks1, such shifts may affect urban ecosystem function.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference Bolong yixianensis gen. et sp. nov.: a new iguanodontoid dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Bony outgrowths on the jaws of an extinct sperm whale support macroraptorial feeding in several stem physeteroids
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Bony-toothed birds (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Middle Eocene of Belgium
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Book review - A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology: Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories, by M. Barber, English Heritage, Swindon, UK, 2011
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Book Review - Coastal Environments & Global Change. G. Masselink & R. Gehrels
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Book review Climate forcing of geological hazards, Bill McGuire and Mark Maslin eds. Wiley 2013.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Book review: Erbacher, J., Kosinowski, M. & Pross, J., eds, 2008 - Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 43 (1), 89p.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Book review: Preusser, F., Hajdas, I. and Ivy-Ochs, eds. – Recent progress in Quaternary dating methods. Special Issue of Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart – Quaternary Science Journal 57, 1/2, 2007
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Book review: Thomas LITT, ed., 2007– Stratigraphie von Deutschland – Quartär. Special Issue of Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, Quaternary Science Journal 56, 1/2.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications