Ruth Rivkin

Ruth Rivkin

Molecular Ecologist

Publications

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Current list of publications

  1. Rivkin LR, K King, J Aars, K Laidre, A Langwieder, D McGeachy, L Newediuk, S Petersen, N Pilfold, AP Wilder, G York, ES Richardson, C Garroway. 2026. Climate-linked evolution and genetics in a warming Arctic. Ecological Monographs. 96:e70053. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70053

  2. Rivkin LR, C Garroway, MTJ Johnson. 2026. A multi-city assessment of genomic evolution in the native wildflower Impatiens capensis. Evolutionary Applications. 19:e70218. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70218

  3. de Greef E, C Müller, AA Snead, LR Rivkin, SH Ferguson, CA Watt, M Marcoux, SD. Petersen, CJ Garroway. 2025. Identifying areas of potential risk based on future genetic adaptability in three Arctic whale species. In press at American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/738889

  4. Rivkin LR, ES Richardson, JM Miller, TC Atwood, S Baryluk, EW Born, C Davis, M Dyck, E de Greef, KL Laidre, NJ Lunn, S McCarthy, ME Obbard, MA. Owen, NW Pilfold, A Roberto-Charron, Ø Wiig, AP Wilder, CJ Garroway. 2024. Assessing the risk of climate maladaptation for Canadian polar bears. Ecology Letters. 27:e14486. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14486

  5. Miller JM, RM Malenfant, LR Rivkin*, TC Atwood, S Baryluk, EW Born, R Dietz, KL Laidre, J Pongracz, ES Richardson, Ø Wiig, CS Davis. 2024. Development of an 8K SNP chip to assess adaptive diversity and hybridization in polar bears. Conservation Genetics Resources. 16: 237-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-024-01359-1 *Corresponding author

  6. Urban, MC, M Alberti, L De Meester, Y Zhou, BC Verrelli, M Szulkin, C Schmidt, P Roberts, LR Rivkin, EP Palkovacs, J Munshi-South, A Melesis, NC Harris, KM Gotanda, CJ Garroway, SE Diamond, S Des Roches, A Charmantier, KI Brans. 2024. Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity. Nature Climate Change. 14:436–447. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01996-2

  7. Rivkin LR, AC Andrade. 2023. Increased herbivory but not cyanogenesis is associated with urbanization in a tropical wildflower. Austral Ecology. 48:388-398. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13274

  8. Rivkin LR, MTJ Johnson. 2022, The impact of urbanization on mating system and population genetic variation in the native wildflower, Impatiens capensis. Journal of Urban Ecology. juac009. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juac009

  9. Verrelli, BC, A Alberti, S Des Roches, NC Harris, AP Hendry, MTJ Johnson, AM Savage, A Charmantier, KM Gotanda, L Govaert, LS Miles, LR Rivkin, KM Winchell, KI Brans, Cn Correa, SE Diamond, B Fitzhugh, NB Grimm, S Hughes, JM Marzluff, J Munshi-South, C Rojas, JS Santangelo, CJ Schell, JA Schweitzer, M Szulkin, MC Urban, Y Zhou, C Ziter. 2022. A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 37:1006-1019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.07.012

  10. KM Winchell, KJ Aviles-Rodriguez, EJ Carlen, LS Miles, A Charmantier, LF De León, KM Gotanda, LR Rivkin, M Szulkin, and BC Verrelli. 2022. 2022. Moving past the challenges and misconceptions in urban adaptation research. Ecology and Evolution. 12:ee9552. http://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9552

  11. Rivkin LR, RA Johnson, JA Chaves, MTJ Johnson. 2021. Urbanization alters ecological and evolutionary interactions between Darwin’s finches and Tribulus cistoides on the Galápagos Islands. Ecology and Evolution. 11:15754–15765. http://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8236

  12. Rivkin LR, V Nhan, AE Weis, MTJ Johnson. 2020. Variation in pollinator-mediated plant reproduction across an urbanization gradient. Oecologia. 192:1073–1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04621-z

  13. Des Roches, S, K Brans, M Lambert, LR Rivkin, A Savage, C Schell, C Correa, L De Meester, S Diamond, N Grimm, N Harris, A Hendry, L Goevart, MTJ Johnson, J Munshi-South, E Palkovacs, M Szulkin, M Urban, B Verrelli, M Alberti. 2020 Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities. In Evolutionary Applications. 14:248– 267. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13065

  14. Santangelo JS, LR Rivkin, C Advenard, KA Thompson. 2020 Multivariate phenotypic divergence along an urbanization gradient. Biology Letters. 16:20200511. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0511

  15. Santangelo, JS, LS Miles, ST Breitbart, D Murray-Stoker, LR Rivkin, MTJ Johnson, RW Ness. 2020. Urban environments as a framework to study parallel evolution. In Szulkin, M, Munshi-South, J, Charmantier, A, eds. Urban Evolutionary Biology. Oxford University Press.

  16. Rivkin LR, JS Santangelo, M Alberti, MF Aronson, CW de Keyzer, SE Diamond, M Fortin, LJ Frazee, AJ Gorton, AP Hendry, Y Liu, JB Losos, JS MacIvor, RA Martin, M McDonnell, LS Miles, J Munshi‐South, R Ness, AE Newman, MR Stothart, P Theodorou, KA Thompson, BV Verrelli, A Whitehead, KM Winchell, and MTJ Johnson. 2019. A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Applications. 12:384–398. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12734

  17. Miles, LM, LR Rivkin, MTJ Johnson, J Munshi-South, BC Verrelli. 2019. Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments. Molecular Ecology. 28:4138-4151. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15221

  18. Rivkin LR, SCH Barrett, MTJ Johnson. 2018. The effects of plant sexual system and latitude on resistance to herbivores. American Journal of Botany. 105:977-985. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1098

  19. Santangelo, JS, LR Rivkin, MTJ Johnson. 2018. The evolution of city life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 20181529. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1529

  20. Rivkin LR, AL Case, CM Caruso. 2016. Why is gynodioecy a rare but widely distributed sexual system? Lessons from the Lamiaceae. New Phytologist. 211:688-696. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13926

  21. Rivkin LR, AL Case, CM Caruso. 2015. Frequency-dependent fitness in gynodioecious Lobelia siphilitica. Evolution. 69:1232-1243. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12654