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Warming amplifies urbanization effects on mammals

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Camera-trap data from across 20 North American cities show how urbanization affects multiple mammal species, and that these effects are stronger in warmer and less-vegetated cities.

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Fig. 1: A camera-trap photograph of an urban coyote in Phoenix, USA.

Jeffrey Haight and Jesse Lewis

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