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figure showing the relationships among social, ecological, and evolutionary dynamics.

Figures from
Des Roches et al. 2020.
Socio-Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Cities. Evolutionary Applications.

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Figure showing the relationship among humans, rats, and disease in the city.
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Figure2_ForestPlot_REModel_DesRoches2017

Figures from
Des Roches et al. 2018.
The Ecological Importance of Intraspecific Variation.
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Figure showing how systemic racism & classism structure physical & biological environments in cities
Figure showing how biological dynamics differ between high & low income neighbourhoods

Figures from
Schell et al. 2020.
The Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Systemic Racism in Urban Environments.
Science.

Figure showing relationships between sexual traits and preference with illustration of a bird

Re-illustration of Steven Arnold's Sexual Selection from
Sinervo. In Press.
Chapter 10: Mate Choice.
Behavioral Genetics to Evolution.

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Graphical abstract and figure from

Des Roches et al. 2020.

Climate-Driven Habitat Change Causes Evolution in Threespine Stickleback.

Global Change Biology

Illustration of different experimental ways of studying urban adaptation.
Figure showing different ways that urban trait divergence can occur with lizards as an example
Figure showing plastic and evolutionary mechanisms underlying urban trait change.

Figures from
Lambert et al. 2021
Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions
Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Figure showing examples of how variation within species can lead to nature's contributions to people
Graph showing relationship between contemporary and historical genetic heterozygosity

Figures from
Des Roches et al. 2021
Conserving Intraspecific Variation for Nature's Contributions to People
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Figure showing how restoration, preservation, management can prioritize intraspecific variation
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ISEECI_Fig_3_casestudies_v4_watercolour.

Figures from
Stuble et al. 2021.
Regional Networks of Biological Field Stations to Study Climate Change
BioScience

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Figures from
Vashon Nature Center Exhibit 2021
Puget Sound Shoreline: Zonation (left); Unrestored armored(top right); Restored unarmored (bottom right)

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Figures from
Des Roches & Robinson et al. 2022
The legacy of predator threat shapes prey foraging behaviour
Oecologia

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updated 1 February 2022