Urban Ecosystems

Understanding resident design preferences and priorities for floating wetlands in coastal stormwater ponds

Clare Escamilla, Amy E. Scaroni, C. Guinn Wallover, Sarah A. White

Irrigation in Mediterranean urban areas: a good strategy to face the ongoing climate change impacts on urban cedar trees?

Jaime Madrigal-González, Antonio de Benito, Ezequiel Antorán, Isabel Catalina Cuesta-Cano, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda

Between walls and wilds: Myocastor coypus Molina, 1782 abundance and occurrence in gated and open communities in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Florencia Abdenur Araos, Regino Cavia, María José Corriale

Ecoacoustic methods application for urban biodiversity monitoring

Aleksandr Levik, Ivan Dobromyslov, Maria Goretskaia, Victor Matasov, Anna Filyushkina

Running a successful ecology and environmental justice summer program: a recipe for collaboration among high-schools, local non-profit organizations and ecologists

Roi Ankori-Karlinsky, Pallavi A. Kache, Génesis Abreu, Jared Fox, Jason Smith, Alexandra M. Huddell, Maya Dutta, Jay M. Schoen, Amanda Johnston, K. A. Carreras Pereira, Rin Krichilsky, Jada Tulloch, Moshab Rahman, Mayerling Lantigua, Sara Kross

Impact of urban forest structure, native species diversity, and vegetation community on invasive plant species richness

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Inyoo Kim, Hong-Duck Sou, Hyun-je Cho, Jun-soo Kim, Jeong-Hak Oh, Chan-Ryul Park

Comparison of taxonomic diversity, body size, mass and condition of small mammals in urban and rural areas of the Coastal Savannah Ecological Zone of Ghana

Benjamin Yeboah Ofori, John Bosu Mensah, Benjamin Asomaning, Andy Annan, Daniel Korley Attuquayefio

Genotoxic analysis of Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nestlings in an urban environment in the Central-West region of Brazil

Maria Eduarda M. Nascimento, Larissa Tinoco, Neiva M. R. Guedes, Alda I. Souza, Luiz U. Hepp, Larissa Grunitzky

Modeling green infrastructure as a flood mitigation strategy in an urban coastal area

Martijn Kriebel, Ting Liu, Robin Noordhoek, Leonie Staas, Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez, Valentina Prigiobbe

Arsenic speciation in soil from urban recreational parks and human health risk assessment

Muhammad Amjad Khan, Javed Nawab, Tasneem Sarwar, Anwarzeb Khan, Iqbal Ahmad, Muhammad Waqas, Shah Nawaz Khan, Mehboob Alam, Kalsoom Kalsoom, Muhammad Ziad, Sardar Khan

Correction to: Small parks in residential neighborhoods as habitats for ground-dwelling beetles, spiders, and ants

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Shinsaku Koji, Shun Furukawa, Natsuki Ichijo, Yuki Yamaguchi, Akio Tanikawa, Kazuyuki Kudô

Optimizing plant species composition of green roofs for ecological functionality and biodiversity conservation

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Carl A. Frisk, Hans Martin Hanslin

Importance of feeders in the seasonal dynamics of floral resource use by hummingbirds in Mexico City

Ubaldo Márquez-Luna, María del Coro Arizmendi

Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities

Joana Caroline dos Santos, Marcelo Gordo, Marcelo Menin, Rafaela Fernanda Ferreira, Izomar Barbosa Melo, Gustavo Yomar Hattori, Bruno Sampaio Sant´Anna, Wesley Valteran dos Santos, Fabiano Waldez Guimarães, Fabrício Baccaro, Sérgio Henrique Borges

Emotions and political identity predict public acceptance of urban deer management

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Hannah M. Desrochers, M. Nils Peterson, Lincoln R. Larson, Christopher E. Moorman, Elizabeth M. Kierepka, John C. Kilgo, Nathan J. Hostetter

Concentration and spatial distribution of lead in mixed use urban park ponds

Olivia J. Mastrangelo, Isaac D. Frank, Arianne A. Bazilio, Amber L. Pitt

Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities

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Israa Mahmoud, Grégoire Dubois, Camino Liquete, Marine Robuchon

Western Cattle Egrets’ (Bubulcus ibis) roosting colony size estimates in urban landscape mosaics of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with notes on habitat threats and features near roosts

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Jennifer Z. Cele, Mfundo S. T. Maseko, Colleen T. Downs

The University of West Florida campus ecosystem study: effects of persistent canopy openings on a chronically fire-excluded longleaf pine ecosystem

Frank S. Gilliam, Katherine M. Lundgren, Leo P. Young, Alexis J. Bjornstad, Caden M. Perry

Urbanization decreases floral display without shifting sexual biomass allocation in Turnera subulata, a common tropical urban plant

Dalton Serafim, Luziene Seixas, Julia Evily Rocha Silva, Anne Karolynne Santos Souza, Mariana Souza do Nascimento Vital, Kim Ribeiro Barão, Guilherme Ramos Demetrio

How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees

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J. Lanner, P Unglaub, C. Rohrbach, B. Pachinger, S. Roberts, S. Kratschmer

Health assessment and driving forces analysis of small-to-medium rivers within highly urbanized areas based on a rapid macroinvertebrate bioassessment index

Xiaoming Peng, Dantong Zhu, Dong Huang, Xiangju Cheng

Human recreational activity does not influence open cup avian nest survival in urban green spaces

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Chloe A. Cull, Mackenzie J. Guest, Barbara Frei, Carly D. Ziter

Feather trace element profiles in urban mountain chickadees differ from adjacent rural chickadees

Matthew W. Reudink, Ashley Toor, Jabed Tomal, Jeeva Gill, Jasmine Ehlert, Ken A. Otter, Madison Oud, Abu Harera Nadeem, Kingsley Donkor

Constructed communities of geophyte and succulent mixes are suitable for non-irrigated extensive green roofs in Mediterranean cities

M. Fabian, S. N. Talhouk

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

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

Exploring the relationship between walls and urban biodiversity: a systematic review

Qinghua Xu, Ranxu Jia, Ranyang Zhang, Yuncai Wang, Lingfeng Mao, Hui Wang

Urban gradient resolution matters! Avian diversity patterns in a boreal green city

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Michelle García-Arroyo, Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez, Meri Back, Heikki Setälä, Ian MacGregor-Fors

Complexities of managing invasive species in semi-urban areas: the case of free-ranging dogs in southern Iran

Alireza Mohammadi, Danial Nayeri, Daniel Pilgreen, Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Gerard Kyle

Understory vegetation can promote bird sounds and reduce traffic noise in urban park soundscapes

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Konrad Uebel, Aletta Bonn, Melissa Marselle, Angela J. Dean, Jonathan R. Rhodes

Citizens’ perceptions and willingness to pay for urban beekeeping: a case study in northern Italy

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Sandra Notaro, Alessandro Paletto, Alessio Mira, Gianluca Grilli

Identifying urban hotspots of potential bird and pedestrian encounters through corridor overlap

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Emma E. Verweij, João Carlos Pena, Julia C. Assis

Lessons learned through participatory bird-window collision research on a university campus

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Hannah C. Partridge, Rebekah Netzley, Alex Wright, Joseph Amodeo, Sophie Barnett, Ron Baron, Braden French, Dakota Arneson, Sara A. Gagné

The birds of the archaeological sites of the Acropolis area (Athens, Greece)

Lambros Tsounis, Gregory Tsounis

Quantifying the potential of façade climbing plants in reducing air pollution: a novel investigation into the absorption capabilities of three climbers for CO2, NO2, and O3 in urban environments

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Minka Aduse-Poku, Hans G. Edelmann

Habitat surrogates for plant richness as a tool for rapid biodiversity assessment in urban areas

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Richard Hrivnák, Ivana Svitková, Michal Slezák, Jana Májeková, Pavol Eliáš Jr., Katarína Hegedüšová Vantarová, Matej Dudáš, Tomáš Čejka, Marek Čiliak

Influence of urban land cover and habitat quality on wild bees

Muzafar Hussain Sirohi, Janet Jackson, Jeff Ollerton

Designing biodiverse urban gardens: ecological planning through computational techniques for pollinator promotion

Sofía Graffigna, Joana P. Haedo, Agustina Gutiérrez, Pablo A. Marinangeli, Juan P. Torretta, Hugo J. Marrero

Brewing sustainability: unveiling the potential of coffee ground as green roof media

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Emrah Yalçınalp, Özgür Demirci, Alperen Meral

Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect

Nina S. Fogel, Rachel M. Penczykowski

Comparing approaches to quantify urbanization on a multicontinental scale

David Murray-Stoker, James S. Santangelo, Marta Szulkin, Marc T. J. Johnson

The value of social media wildlife sightings for elusive species monitoring: a population assessment of servals in a South African urban nature reserve

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Kyle Smith, Michael J. Somers

Editorial for special issue “Integrating Biodiversity in the Urban Planning and Design Processes”

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Diana Dushkova, Maria Ignatieva, Norbert Müller, Charles Nilon

A systematic literature review of citizen science in urban studies and regional urban planning: policy, practical, and research implications

Donizete Beck, Juliana Mitkiewicz

Influence of habitat structures on fish abundances and diversity: comparing mainstream and tributary communities in the urban uMsunduze Catchment, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Nolwazi B. Ngcobo, Matthew J. Burnett, Colleen T. Downs

Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?

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Soline Bettencourt-Amarante, Raphaëlle Abensur, Robin Furet, Clara Ragon, Anthony Herrel

A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city

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Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez, Michelle García-Arroyo, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, Angelina Ruiz-Sánchez, Ian MacGregor-Fors

Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional β-diversity along an urbanization gradient in Taipei metropolitan area

Shu-Wei Fu, Jerome Chie-Jen Ko, Tzung-Su Ding

A connectivity analysis to find areas for habitat restoration of the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) in its natural habitat

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Tania Fernández, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Luis Zambrano

Inspiring citizens and municipalities to initiate pollinator conservation: the urban pollinator matrix modeling tool

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Dean E. Pearson, Alli L.W. DePuy, Marirose P. Kuhlman

Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation

Tong Wang, Heyun Wang, Xue Yang, Jinming Yang, Yajing He, Zhigang Wu, Zhenghao Fan, Zhen Sun, Xiaolong Chi, Haifang Li

An interdisciplinary, co-teaching approach to a course in urban social-ecological systems

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Vikki L. Rodgers, Stephen Deets, Sarah Foster, Paul Schmitz, Megan Way

Crypsis in a polymorphic mammal along an urbanization gradient

Jessica Proctor, Alessandra Bryan, Bradley J. Cosentino, James P. Gibbs

Changes in urban landcover picks winners and losers in the non-invasive bird community

Ryan J. Fisher