Contact Information:

 

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

University of Connecticut

75 N. Eagleville Rd., Unit 3043

Storrs, CT 06269-3043

 

Phone: 860-486-6113

Lab: 860-486-6154

Fax: 860-486-6364

E-mail: mark.urban(at)uconn.edu

Publications

Urban, M. C., J. J. Tewksbury, and K. S. Sheldon. 2012. On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2367 [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C. 2011. A crucial step toward realism: responses to climate change from an evolving metacommunity perspective. Evolutionary Applications. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00208.x [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C. 2011. The evolution of species interactions across natural landscapes. Ecology Letters. 14: 723-732. [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C., Gilman, S. E., J. Tewksbury, and R. D. Holt. 2011. Heating up relations between cold fish : competition modifies responses to climate change. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80: 505-507. [pdf]

 

Bolnick, D. I., P. Amarasekare, M. S. Araujo, R. Burger, J. M. Levine, M. Novak, V. H. W. Rudolf, S. J. Schreiber, M. C. Urban, and D. A. Vasseur. 2011. Why intraspecific variation matters in community ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 26(4): 183-192. [pdf]

 

Gilman, S.E., M.C. Urban, J. Tewksbury, G.W. Gilchrist, & R.D. Holt. 2010. A framework for community interactions under climate change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25(6): 325-331. [pdf]

 

Buckley, L. B., M. C. Urban, M. J. Angilletta, L. Crozier, L. J. Rissler, & M. W. Sears. 2010. Contrasting correlative and mechanistic models of species ranges : putting concepts into practice. Ecology Letters. 13: 1041-1054. [pdf]

 

Urban, M.C. 2010. Microgeographic adaptation of larval salamander morphologies across landscape gradients in two predation threats. Oikos. 119(4): 646-658. [pdf]

 

Urban, M.C., & L. De Meester. 2009. Community monopolization: local adaptation enhances priority effects in an evolving metacommunity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 4129-4138. [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C.  2008Salamander evolution across a latitudinal cline in gape-limited predation risk.  Oikos. 117: 1037-1049.   [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C. et al.  2008The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities.  Trends in Ecology & Evolution.  23(6): 311-317.   [pdf]

            * Rated #1 hottest article in TREE for Apr. - Sept. 2008

 

Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine.  2008.  The toad more traveled: the heterogeneous invasion dynamics of cane toads in Australia.  American Naturalist.  171(3): E134-E148.  [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C.  2008The evolution of prey body size reaction norms in diverse communities.  Journal of Animal Ecology.  77: 346-355.   [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C.  2008Ecological GeneticsIn: Encyclopedia of Life SciencesJohn Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Chichester[pdf]

 

Urban, M. C.  2007.  The growth-predation risk tradeoff under a growing gape-limited predation threat.  Ecology.  88(10): 2587-2597.  [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C.  2007.  Predator size and phenology shape prey survival in temporary ponds.  Oecologia.  154: 571-580.  [pdf]

 

Urban, M. C.  2007.  Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.  104(36): 14377-14382.  [pdf]

            * Covered by Science News, National Geographic, The New Scientist, et al.

 

Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine.  2007.  The cane toad’s (Chaunus [Bufo] marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range model.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 274: 1413-1419.  [pdf]

            * Recommended by A. Hendry in the Faculty of 1000    

            * Covered by Nature News, BBC, Today Show Australia, et al.

 

Urban, M. C.  2006.  Maladaptation and mass-effects in a metacommunity: consequences for species coexistence.  American Naturalist.  168(1): 28-40.  [main-pdf]  [App.-pdf

 

Urban, M. C. and D. K. Skelly. 2006.  Evolving metacommunities: Toward an evolutionary perspective on metacommunities.  Ecology.  87(7): 1616-1626.  [pdf

 

Urban, M. C.  2006.  Road facilitation of trematode infections in snails of northern Alaska.  Conservation Biology.  20(4): 1143:1149.  [pdf

 

Urban, M. C., D. K. Skelly, D. Burchsted, W. Price, S. Lowry.  2006.  Stream communities across a rural-urban landscape gradient.  Diversity and Distributions.  12:337-350.  [pdf

            * Recommended by P. Kareiva in the Faculty of 1000

 

Urban, M. C.  2006.  Conservation beyond community (Book Review).  Conservation Biology.  20: 1330.  [pdf

 

Skelly, D. K., M. A. Halverson, L. K. Freidenburg, and M. C. Urban. 2005.  Canopy closure and amphibian biodiversity in forested wetlands.  Wetlands Ecology & Management.  13:261-268.  [pdf

 

Urban, M. C.  2004.  Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater metacommunity structure.  Ecology.  85(11): 2971-2978.  [pdf