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Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science.
Article in Communications biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Experimental simulation of environmental warming selects against pigmented morphs of land snails.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Citizen science via social media revealed conditions of symbiosis between a marine gastropod and an epibiotic alga.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science.Communications biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The extreme environmental conditions that prevail in cities are known to cause selection pressures leading to adaptive changes in wild, city-dwelling, organisms (urban evolution). The urban heat island, elevated temperatures in the city centre due to a combination of generation, reflection, and trapping of heat, is one of the best recognised and most widespread urban environmental factors. Here, we use a citizen-science approach to study the effects of urban heat on genetically-determined shell colour in the land snail
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