M. Brooke Byerley-Best

Sep 4, 2024 | nature.com | Anna L. Hargreaves |John Ensing |Jérôme Burkiewicz |Joëlle Lafond |M. Brooke Byerley-Best |Ella Martin | +13 more

AbstractUrbanization is creating a new global biome, in which cities and suburbs around the world often resemble each other more than the local natural areas they replaced. But while urbanization can profoundly affect ecology at local scales, we know little about whether it disrupts large-scale ecological patterns. Here we test whether urbanization disrupts a macroecological pattern central to ecological and evolutionary theory: the increase in seed predation intensity from high to low latitudes.