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Jesse B. Borden

Hobart and William Smith CollegesORCID 0000-0001-9413-9537Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Evolutionary BiologyUrban EcosystemsPeer-reviewedOct 30, 2025

Beyond urbanization metrics: Using graphical causal models to investigate mechanisms in urban ecology and evolution

Jesse B. Borden, James P. Gibbs, John P. Vanek, Bradley J. Cosentino

This paper uses graphical causal models to test mechanistic hypotheses about urbanization's effects on biodiversity, finding that melanism in squirrels is constrained by urban environmental factors.

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