 Urbanization
"Urbanization" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.
| Descriptor ID |
D014507
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.526.726
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| Concept/Terms |
Central City- Central City
- Central Cities
- Cities, Central
- City, Central
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Urbanization" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Urbanization" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Urbanization" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Lenard A, Diamond SE. Evidence of plasticity, but not evolutionary divergence, in the thermal limits of a highly successful urban butterfly. J Insect Physiol. 2024 06; 155:104648.
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Prileson EG, Clark J, Diamond SE, Lenard A, Medina-B?ez OA, Yilmaz AR, Martin RA. Keep your cool: Overwintering physiology in response to urbanization in the acorn ant, Temnothorax curvispinosus. J Therm Biol. 2023 May; 114:103591.
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Diamond SE, Bellino G, Deme GG. Urban insect bioarks of the 21st century. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2023 06; 57:101028.
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Verrelli BC, Alberti M, Des Roches S, Harris NC, Hendry AP, Johnson MTJ, Savage AM, Charmantier A, Gotanda KM, Govaert L, Miles LS, Rivkin LR, Winchell KM, Brans KI, Correa C, Diamond SE, Fitzhugh B, Grimm NB, Hughes S, Marzluff JM, Munshi-South J, Rojas C, Santangelo JS, Schell CJ, Schweitzer JA, Szulkin M, Urban MC, Zhou Y, Ziter C. A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology. Trends Ecol Evol. 2022 11; 37(11):1006-1019.
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Martin RA, Chick LD, Garvin ML, Diamond SE. In a nutshell, a reciprocal transplant experiment reveals local adaptation and fitness trade-offs in response to urban evolution in an acorn-dwelling ant. Evolution. 2021 04; 75(4):876-887.
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Lambert MR, Brans KI, Des Roches S, Donihue CM, Diamond SE. Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions. Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 03; 36(3):239-257.
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