Publications
2013
Urban, M. C. 2013. Evolution mediates the effects of apex predation on aquatic food webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (online early) [Link]
Richardson, J. L., and M. C. Urban. 2013. Strong selection barriers explain microgeographic adaptation in wild salamander populations. Evolution (in press). [Link]
2012
Norberg, J., M. C. Urban, M. Vellend, C. A. Klausmeier, and N. Loeuille. 2012. Eco-evolutionary responses of biodiversity to climate change. Nature Climate Change. [pdf]
Urban, M. C., L. De Meester, M. Vellend, R. Stoks, and J. Vanoverbeke. 2012. A crucial step toward realism: responses to climate change from an evolving metacommunity perspective. Evolutionary Applications 5: 154–167. [pdf]
Zarnetske, P. L., D. K. Skelly, and M. C. Urban. 2012. Biotic multipliers of climate change. Science. 336:1516-1518. [pdf]
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 279: 2072-2080. [pdf]
2011
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]
2010
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]
2009
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]
2008
Urban, M. C. 2008. Salamander evolution across a latitudinal cline in gape-limited predation risk. Oikos. 117: 1037-1049. [pdf]
Urban, M. C. et al. 2008. The 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. 2008. The evolution of prey body size reaction norms in diverse communities. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77: 346-355. [pdf]
Urban, M. C. 2008. Ecological Genetics. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Chichester. [pdf]
2007
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.
2006
Urban, M. C. 2006. Maladaptation and mass-effects in a metacommunity: consequences for species coexistence. American Naturalist. 168(1): 28-40. [main-pdf] [appendix-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]
2005
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
2004
Urban, M. C. 2004. Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater metacommunity structure. Ecology. 85(11): 2971-2978. [pdf]