Marta Szulkin

May 3, 2024 | biorxiv.org | David Murray-Stoker |James S. Santangelo |Marta Szulkin |Marc Johnson

AbstractUrbanization is an increasingly prevalent driver of environmental, ecological, and evolutionary change in both terrestrial and aquatic systems, and it is important that our sampling designs accurately capture this urban environmental change.

Apr 26, 2024 | nature.com | Mark Urban |Luc De Meester |Yuyu Zhou |Brian C. Verrelli |Marta Szulkin |Patrick Roberts | +10 more

AbstractClimate change and urbanization are two of the most prominent global drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem change. Fully understanding, predicting and mitigating the biological impacts of climate change and urbanization are not possible in isolation, especially given their growing importance in shaping human society.

Apr 18, 2024 | nature.com | Marc Johnson |Jason Munshi-South |Marta Szulkin |Brian C. Verrelli |Elizabeth J. Carlen |Josefa Gonzalez | +4 more

AbstractIncreasing evidence suggests that urbanization is associated with higher mutation rates, which can affect the health and evolution of organisms that inhabit cities. Elevated pollution levels in urban areas can induce DNA damage, leading to de novo mutations.

Jun 8, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Charles Perrier |Montpellier SupAgro |Marta Szulkin |Irene Di Lecce

Conclusions and outlook Our data provided evidence of altered spatiotemporal parameters in nestboxes compared with natural cavities in blue tits, although quantitative differences in neighbor density and synchronous neighbor density were small (Table 1). This complements previous knowledge of the differences introduced by nestboxes. However, our results offered no evidence for an effect of nestboxes per se on levels of extra-pair paternity in the population.