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Mark C. Urban is a researcher affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their main field of study is Environmental Science, with substantial work spanning several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

The scientist's research encompasses a variety of topics related to ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Key topics of their work include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Mark C. Urban has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • BioScience
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • "Seasonality and uncertainty in global COVID-19 growth rates," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities," 2020, Evolutionary Applications
  • "The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics," 2020, BioScience
  • "A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action," 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Evolutionary origins for ecological patterns in space," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaboration is a significant element of their scientific output, with frequent co-authors including Luc De Meester, Cory Merow, Lynn Govaert, Andrew P. Hendry, and Sean T. Giery. These collaborations highlight multidisciplinary engagement across ecological and evolutionary research themes.

Best Publications

  • Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Priyanga Amarasekare;Márcio S. Araújo;Reinhard Bürger

  • Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

    Mark C. Urban

  • A framework for community interactions under climate change

    Sarah E. Gilman;Sarah E. Gilman;Mark C. Urban;Joshua Tewksbury;George W. Gilchrist;George W. Gilchrist

  • Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change

    Mark C Urban;G Bocedi;A P Hendry;J-B Mihoub;J-B Mihoub

  • Can mechanism inform species’ distribution models?

    Lauren B. Buckley;Mark C. Urban;Michael J. Angilletta;Lisa G. Crozier

  • Microgeographic adaptation and the spatial scale of evolution

    Jonathan L. Richardson;Mark C. Urban;Daniel I. Bolnick;David K. Skelly

  • On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change

    Mark C. Urban;Josh J. Tewksbury;Kimberly S. Sheldon

  • The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities.

    Mark C. Urban;Mathew A. Leibold;Priyanga Amarasekare;Luc De Meester

  • Eco-evolutionary responses of biodiversity to climate change

    Jon Norberg;Jon Norberg;Mark C. Urban;Mark Vellend;Christopher A. Klausmeier

  • A Toad More Traveled: The Heterogeneous Invasion Dynamics of Cane Toads in Australia

    Mark C. Urban;Ben L. Phillips;David K. Skelly;Richard Shine

  • The cane toad's (Chaunus [Bufo] marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range model

    Mark C Urban;Ben L Phillips;David K Skelly;Richard Shine

  • Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change

    Phoebe L. Zarnetske;David K. Skelly;Mark C. Urban

  • Evolving Perspectives on Monopolization and Priority Effects

    Luc De Meester;Joost Vanoverbeke;Laurens J. Kilsdonk;Mark C. Urban

  • Stream communities across a rural–urban landscape gradient

    Mark C. Urban;David K. Skelly;Denise Burchsted;William Price

  • Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater metacommunity structure

    Mark C. Urban

  • Plasticity and genetic adaptation mediate amphibian and reptile responses to climate change.

    Mark C. Urban;Jonathan L. Richardson;Nicole A. Freidenfelds

  • Seasonality and uncertainty in global COVID-19 growth rates.

    Cory Merow;Mark C Urban

  • Community monopolization: local adaptation enhances priority effects in an evolving metacommunity

    Mark C. Urban;Luc De Meester

  • Abiotic and biotic constraints across reptile and amphibian ranges

    Heather R. Cunningham;Leslie J. Rissler;Lauren B. Buckley;Mark C. Urban

  • The growth-predation risk trade-off under a growing gape-limited predation threat.

    Mark C. Urban

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
David K. Skelly
David K. Skelly Yale University
Adrià López-Baucells
Adrià López-Baucells Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Daniel F. R. Cleary
Daniel F. R. Cleary University of Aveiro
Mathew A. Leibold
Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida
Christopher A. Klausmeier
Christopher A. Klausmeier Michigan State University
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Eric P. Palkovacs
Eric P. Palkovacs University of California, Santa Cruz
Jon Norberg
Jon Norberg Stockholm Resilience Centre

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