Changes in air quality in urban and peri-urban areas; the impact of climate change on cities; the contribution of cities to greenhouse gas emissions; the effects of urban environments on extreme weather events, and the links between cities and the health of their inhabitants are all issues that will be examined by the ten scientific […]
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Great tits living in cities are genetically different from great tits in the countryside. This is what researchers have found in a unique study, where they examined populations of great tits in nine large European cities.
The researchers compared the city bird genes with the genes of their relatives in the countryside. It did not matter if the great tits lived in Milan, Malmö or Madrid: in order to handle an environment created by humans, the birds evolved in a similar way.
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Urban and forest colonies of the ant Temnothorax nylanderi respond differently to pollution?
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For more than 10 years, the City of Paris and the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris have been collaborating on various issues of urban ecology. From these multiform collaborations at the interface between fundamental research and concrete techniques for the management of urban environments, several advances have been made on both scientific […]