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Urban Ecosystems

Issue 6/2022

Content (28 Articles)

Open Access

Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment

D. Johan Kotze, Elizabeth C. Lowe, J. Scott MacIvor, Alessandro Ossola, Briony A. Norton, Dieter F. Hochuli, Luis Mata, Marco Moretti, Sara A. Gagné, I. Tanya Handa, Therésa M. Jones, Caragh G. Threlfall, Amy K. Hahs

Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams

Blanca Ríos-Touma, Christian Villamarín, Gabriela Jijón, Jackie Checa, Genoveva Granda-Albuja, Edison Bonifaz, Laura Guerrero-Latorre

Open Access

Callout analysis in relation to wild birds in a tropical city: implications for urban species management

Danielle Louisa Hinchcliffe, Robert J. Young, Camila P. Teixeira

Plant performance analysis of biofacades in a hot, arid Region of Qatar

Payam Bahrami, Fodil Fadli, Sara Mazen Zaina, Abdollah Baghaei Daemei, Amiraslan Darvish, Seyedeh Maryam Abbaszadegan

Open Access

Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities

Tanja K. Petersen, James D. M. Speed, Vidar Grøtan, Yngve K. Frøyen, Gunnar Austrheim

Characteristics of the urban sewer system and rat presence in Seattle

Xiaocong Guo, Michael J. Lee, Kaylee A. Byers, Leah Helms, Kate R. Weinberger, Chelsea G. Himsworth

Dog demography and husbandry practices facilitate dog-wildlife conflict in a suburban-forest interface

Libertad Orozco, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Heliot Zarza, Gerardo Suzán, Rurik List

Open Access

Constructing ecological indices for urban environments using species distribution models

ARIEL LEVI SIMONS, STEVIE CALDWELL, MICHELLE FU, JOSE GALLEGOS, MICHAEL GATHERU, LAURA RICCARDELLI, NHI TRUONG, VALERIA VIERA

Venerable trees of tropical Chinese Wuzhishan city: Distribution patterns and drivers

Jian-Peng Cui, Salman Qureshi, AJ Harris, C. Y. Jim, Hua-Feng Wang

Open Access

Use of Space by black-and-gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in an urban environment in Paraguay

Paraguay. Xander Duffy, Jake Wellian, Rebecca L. Smith

Spatial ecology of crested porcupine in a metropolitan landscape

Emiliano Mori, Riccardo Molteni, Leonardo Ancillotto, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Mattia Falaschi

Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments

Jana Ščevková, Zuzana Vašková, Jozef Dušička, Michal Hrabovský

Floristic changes of vascular flora in the city of Rome through grid-cell census over 23 years

Carlo Fratarcangeli, Giuliano Fanelli, Riccardo Testolin, Francesca Buffi, Alessandro Travaglini

Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City

Min Wang, Shiqin Yu, Xiaohua Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Huixian Zeng, Wenkun Wu, Mengyun Liu, Chenhui Su, Guoliang Xu

Open Access

Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city

Anna S. Persson, Amy Westman, Tobias J. Smith, Margaret M. Mayfield, Peter Olsson, Henrik G. Smith, Richard Fuller

The wintering ecology of the Rook Corvus frugilegus in Northern Kyushu, Japan

Minami Hattori, Tomoo Sobagaki, Hiroki Matsuda, Shoyo Nakamura, Makoto Tokuda

Plant–bee interactions and resource utilisation in an urban landscape

Muzafar Hussain Sirohi, Janet Jackson, Jeff Ollerton