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A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits.
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1 Aug 2022
Cronin Andrew D, Smit Judith A H, Muñoz Matías I, Poirier Armand, Moran Peter A, Jerem Paul, Halfwerk Wouter
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Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter- and intra-sexual selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban conditions can influence an individual's success in pre- and post-copulatory mating, for example through impacts on mate attraction and mate preference, fertilisation success, resource competition or rival interactions. Divergent sexual selection pressures can lead...
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