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Professor of Biology. Ecology, evolution, genetics, in natural and urban habitats. VP of Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution. Passionate about connecting kids with nature, advocating for grad students, postdocs, science funding. Proud Canadian!
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Thank you Dr. Moore!
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However, there is a stunning decrease in effective population size in recent time across all 3 spp. While this decline starts shortly after deglaciation, the most precipitous decline occurs at the onset of European settlement, extensive deforestation and then widespread intensive urbanization. 3/3
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This was a large multiyear study, examining population and landscape genetic variation in 3 specialist insects of milkweed across 6 cities. Surprisingly, even though urbanization decreased abundance of some insects, there was no clear effect of urbanization on gene flow or drift 2/3
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True. I don’t usually need ski goggles
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Nothing regular about 23cm of snow and campus being shut down