Urban Ecosystems

Bird-watching and eco-crafting bird feeders as nature-based experiential learning activities for students in urban areas

Subhasree Sarkar, Pranab Kumar Ghose, Kiran Choudaj

The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Dinesh Bhusal, Prashant Ghimire, Matthew Low, Zuzanna M. Rosin, Yajna Prasad Timilsina

Urbanization as a driver of changes in mutualistic networks between bees and plants

Letícia Vanessa Graf, Fabrício Schmitz Meyer, Fernando Fortunato Jeronimo, Rodrigo Barbosa Gonçalves

Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments

Dunja Jurina, Laura Posarić, Hana Fajković, Vesna Gulin Beljak, Mirela Sertić Perić

Patterns of a sexually selected trait are not predictable across urban and non-urban populations of a songbird, the dark-eyed junco

• Open Access

Eleanor S. Diamant, Martin Kang, Pamela J. Yeh

Livelihood risks arising from urban river pollution in selected marginal communities in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

• Open Access

Blessing Nonye Onyima, Lydia Ngozichukwuka Nwabueze, Chika Felicitas Nnadozie, Gift Ochonogor Omovoh, Thandi Mmachaka, Blessing Odafe Omovoh, Francis Ofurum Arimoro, Jude Edafe Uku, Frank Chuckwuzuoke Akamagwuna, Gospel Ogochukwu Onyima, Oghenekaro Nelson Odume

City lights, moonlit nights: examining bat responses to urbanization and lunar cycles

Claysson de Aguiar Silva, Ludmilla M. S. Aguiar

Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city

• Open Access

Richard Lemoine-Rodríguez, Antonio Vieyra, Ian MacGregor-Fors

Mapping the marginals: predicting unplanned human settlements in urban protected areas of Bogotá, Colombia

• Open Access

Angela P. Hurtado-Moreno, Natalia M. Ramírez Martínez, Diego F. Rubio Goyes, José F. González-Maya

Limited contamination by trace metals in city colonies of the ant Temnothorax nylanderi (Foerster, 1850)

Marie Gressler, Angélique Bultelle, Claudie Doums, Mathieu Molet

Unveiling drivers of fecundity in an urban white-tailed deer population over 20 years of active management

Taylor S. Readyhough, Jonathon D. Cepek, Erik E. Shaffer, Patricia M. Dennis, Nathan W. Byer, Constance E. Hausman, Robert A. Montgomery, Remington J. Moll

Predicted bird extinctions shifts morphological diversity in a metropolitan region in Eastern Amazon

Victória de Nazaré Gama-Silva, Alexandre Aleixo, Bianca Darski-Silva, Rony Peterson Santos Almeida, Rogério R. Silva

The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands

• Open Access

Sara R. Wijburg, Marieke P. de Cock, Ella F. Raaijmakers, Joep van Belkom, Fiona de Boer, Laurens R. Dijkhuis, Maurice La Haye, Monique de Jager, Miriam Maas, Roy R. Mol, Ellen van Norren, Hein Sprong, Sil A. Westra, Patrick A. Jansen

From lawns to meadows: spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) as indicators to measure urban grassland restoration success

• Open Access

Alexander Bach, Jana Jedamski, Benjamin Daniels, Martina Roß-Nickoll

Improving citizen science through collaborative research partnerships between social scientists and environmental practitioners

Anne H. Toomey, Monica Palta, Robina Taliaferrow, Tanasia Swift, Rob Buchanan

The contribution of informal green space to urban biodiversity: a city-scale assessment using crowdsourced survey data

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Hugh R. Stanford, Joe Hurley, Georgia E. Garrard, Holly Kirk

Exploring floristic patterns across urban habitats: a case study of the city of Sarajevo (Balkan Peninsula)

Nermina Sarajlić, Dragana Jenačković Gocić, Aleksandra Trajković, Nejc Jogan

Attributes of private yards along a rural-urban gradient in China highlight opportunities and limits to increase trees to benefit biodiversity and climate

Ang Zhang, Margaret J. Grose, Peter A. Vesk

Relationship between soil seed bank and altitudinal gradient in the Urban Forested Mountain Landscape of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Eyob Tenkir, Tamrat Bekele, Sebsebe Demissiew, Ermias Aynekulu

Nectar plants visited by hummingbirds in an urban area of southern Brazil

Ruara Soares Mendes, Francielle Paulina de Araújo-Hoffmann

Scale-dependent effects of urbanization on avian diversity in a Neotropical region

Raiane V. Paz, Carlos Salustio-Gomes, Victor R. Cavalcanti, Lorena Pinheiro-Silva, Amanda B. B. Fernandes, Mauro Pichorim, Andros T. Gianuca

Vegetation influences urban Northern short-tailed shrew site occupancy

Marianna M. Wharff, Rachel N. Larson, Heather A. Sander

Urban green spaces with high connectivity and complex vegetation promote occupancy and richness of birds in a tropical megacity

• Open Access

Marco T. Oropeza-Sánchez, Israel Solano-Zavaleta, Wendy Lizett Cuandón-Hernández, Jorge Arturo Martínez-Villegas, Vianey Palomera-Hernández, J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega

Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data

Xinyi Liu, Xudong Yang, Xinyu Li, Jun Yang

New native species for extensive green roofs to enrich urban ecosystem services in semiarid regions

Agustina Gutierrez, Andrea Soledad Brendel, Pablo Marinangeli

Evaluation of thermal performance in green roofs using recycled construction waste sand as substrate

Matheus Schmidt, Samuel Nelson Melegari de Souza, Deonir Secco, Aline Snak, Doglas Bassegio

Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity

• Open Access

Diana E. Bowler, Corey T. Callaghan, Jéssica F. Felappi, Brittany M. Mason, Robin Hutchinson, Prashant Kumar, Laurence Jones

Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts

Sebastian Theis, Andrew T. M. Chin, Angela Wallace, Lyndsay A. Cartwright, Marie-Josée Fortin, Mark S. Poesch, Jonathan L. W. Ruppert

Whiskers in the city: domestic cat predation in Ecuadorian coastal cities and associated factors

Kevin Panchana, Ileana Herrera, Anahí Vargas, Isac Mella-Méndez, Rafael Flores-Peredo

Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents

• Open Access

Samar Al Sayegh Petkovšek, Klemen Kotnik, Kristijan Breznik, Boštjan Pokorny

From ponds to patios: evidence of frog reproduction and recruitment in residential gardens

Holly L. Butterworth, Bronte E. Van Helden, Paul G. Close

Impacts of urban heterogeneity in environmental and societal characteristics on coyote survival

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Emily Zepeda, Andrew Sih, Christopher J. Schell, Stanley Gehrt

Impact of urban disturbance on soil insect communities in a Brazilian Atlantic Forest biological station

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Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira, Juliana Mourão dos Santos Rodrigues, Marcos Krull, Raquel G. Boullosa, Rosana Gentile, Karina Cunha Sant’ana, Marianna V. P. Simões

Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient

Jenis S. Kim, Akana E. Noto

Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides

H. M. Bichi, Badrul Azhar, Muhammad Syafiq Yahya, Muhamad Amir Hadi, A. A. Ogunjinmi, Norizah Kamarudin, Ahmad R. Norhisham

Urban foraging in the Anthropocene: socio-ecological dynamics of wild edible plant use in metropolitan landscapes

Sebastián Cordero

Carbon sequestration and CO2 flux in six plant species in vertical greenery systems

Lan Pan, Shuang Luo, Wentao Hu, Po Ying Lai, Hongmei Wang, Mengyao Liu, Leeman Chu

Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes

Jorge Sereno-Cadierno, Xosé Pardavila, Antonio J. Carpio, Adrián Suárez-Rozada, Miguel Lizana

We are not the problem, cars are: effect of different human activities in an urban area on opossums health and population size

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Yury Glebskiy, Daniela Aimee Parra-Campos, Zenon Cano-Santana

Urban refuges in winter: the role of habitat characteristics and supplementary feeding in shaping bird occupancy and abundance

Martin Šálek, Miroslav Bažant, Jakub Vrána, Stanislav Grill, Radovan Václav

Drivers of plant biodiversity on cemeteries in the Ruhr Metropolitan Region (W Germany)

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Corinne Buch, Daniel Hering, Peter Keil