Continent-wide effects of urbanization on bird and mammal genetic diversity
C. Schmidt, M. Domaratzki, J. Bowman, R. P. Kinnunen, C. J. Garroway
The paper analyzes genetic data from North American birds and mammals to assess how urbanization affects genetic diversity and effective population size, finding significant negative impacts on mammals but not birds.
bioRxiv · Jan 16, 2020Evolutionary Biology