Urban Ecosystems

Emotional landscape analysis of cultural ecosystem services in heritage parks: a deep learning approach using social media data

Siyi Ren, Xiaolong Chen, Hongfeng Zhang

Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation

• Open Access

Indré Cepukaitè, Anders Björkén, Lina Ahlbäck Widenfalk, Mats Jonsell, Barbara Locke

Vegetation regulations and upkeeping influence avifauna diversity within residential developments of Mexico City

• Open Access

Lorna Hernandez-Santin, O. EricRamirez-Bravo, Cristina Hernandez-Santin

The legacy of neighborhood age: how the past shapes the current diversity, composition, and cover of urban trees

Sergio Javier Ceballos, Alejandro Nicolas Saravia, Javier Foguet, Yohana Jimenez, M. Virginia González, Guadalupe Coria, Santiago Gibilisco, Pablo Quiroga, Ezequiel Aráoz

Effect of physiological traits and soil properties on carbon sequestration capacity of roadside vegetation along motorways

Hongcheng Bai, Xiaoqian Zhang

A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas

Issaac Azrrael Teodosio Faustino, Fernando González-García, Michelle Ramos-Robles, Wesley Dáttilo

Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments

• Open Access

Giorgia Graells, Derek Corcoran, Francisca Cuevas, Stefan Gelcich

Urbanization shifts stress-response traits in an alien herb across five tropical cities

Lorena Flores-Reyes, José Ramos-Zapata, Pamela Medina-van Berkum, Rogelio O. Corona-Núñez, Héctor Estrada-Medina, Mariana Chávez-Pesqueira, Diego Carmona

Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration

• Open Access

Misha Malherbe, Peter C. le Roux, Natalie S. Haussmann

Predation risk and decision-making of grey squirrels in urban and rural forested parks

Mark Givelas, Adam R. Martin, Rudy Boonstra

Cats in the city: urban cat distribution is influenced by habitat characteristics, anthropogenic factors, and the presence of coyotes

• Open Access

Angelinna Bradfield, Chris Nagy, Mark Weckel, David C. Lahti, Bobby Habig

Exploring perceptions and attitudes towards wildlife in urban home gardens in Bengaluru, India

Varsha Bhaskaran, Charles H Nilon

Endozoochorous seed dispersal in urban ecosystems: a global review of patterns, interactions, and knowledge gaps

• Open Access

Harsh Yadav, Yuki Iwachido, Shyam S. Phartyal, Takehiro Sasaki

Examination of the presence of evolutionary response behind larger size at metamorphosis in urban toads

Sena Irie, Noriko Iwai

Evidence for urban food limitation in a widespread invasive lizard

• Open Access

Sean T. Giery, Zachary A. Chejanovski, Braulio A. Assis, Tracy Langkilde, Jason J. Kolbe

Tree cavity availability and distribution across habitats in Udaipur (Rajasthan), a small Indian City: implications for urban wildlife

Vijay Kumar Koli, Rakesh Kumar, Kanishka Mehta, Satish Kumar Sharma

Mistletoe-bearing trees positively influence bird foraging patterns across urban and natural environments

• Open Access

Kees W. Hood, Frank Fabbro, Daniel S. Karp

The response of avian chewing lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) loads to early-1900s urbanization in the Western United States

• Open Access

Ethan X. Kahn, Jake M. Jacobsen, Amanda Leyel, Mia C. Rosati, Graham A. Montgomery, Morgan W. Tingley

Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection

• Open Access

Henrik Sjöman, Andrew Hirons, Kevin W. E. Martin

Assessing public perceptions of ecosystem services in peri-urban mediterranean wetlands: a case study for a restorative NBS in Catalonia, Spain

• Open Access

Olivia Cason, Sara Maestre-Andrés, Antoni Mas-Ponce, Francesc Romagosa, Quim Zaldo-Aubanell

Shot down in grays: an integrative review and meta-analysis of the negative effects of urbanization on butterfly communities

Thaís Pignataro, Giselle Martins Lourenço, Tatiana Cornelissen

Beta diversity of drosophilid flies (Insecta: Diptera) between ecological reserves and urban parks is mediated by turnover

Fábio André Gomes Silva Cavalcanti, José Pedro Cavalcante Viana, Matheus Cavalcante Viana, Rafael Augusto Rodrigues Santos, Rosana Tidon

Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition

• Open Access

Jan Grünwald, Jiří Reif

Crop-specialized pollinator drives bee and floral community response to urbanization on small squash farms

• Open Access

Jennifer Roedel, Zsofia Szendrei

Cultivating ecological awareness in middle-school students through short interactions with urban soil ecosystems

• Open Access

Hayden W. Bock, Kyle G. Wickings

Environmental degradation and its consequences for biological diversity in urban streams of the Southwestern Amazon

Dayana Tamiris Brito dos Santos Catâneo, Paulo Vilela Cruz, Leandro Juen, Maria Aurea Pinheiro de Almeida Silveira, Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria

Influence of site type on wood specific gravity and ash content for urban-grown hardwoods

Nancy F. Sonti, James A. Westfall, Michael C. Wiemann, Thomas L. Eberhardt

Invertebrate richness and diversity in parks situated along a gradient of urbanisation

• Open Access

Lena K. McNaughton, Barbara I. P. Barratt, Yolanda van Heezik

Intra-urban spatial heterogeneity of autumn leaf senescence: effects of land-use composition on tree phenology in Wuhan, China

Wenli Zhu, Bohan Wu, Ming Zhang, Li Zhang, Xiaoyi Xing, Song Li

Parallel phenotypes of Littoraria angulifera emerge across ecoregions, as a response to urbanization

• Open Access

Javier A. Venegas, Levy Obonaga, José M. Riascos

High modularity of plant-pollinator interactions in an urban garden is driven by phenological continuity and flower morphology

Luis Gustavo de Sousa Perugini, Leonardo Ré Jorge, Jeff Ollerton, Maria Auxiliadora Milaneze-Gutierre, André Rodrigo Rech

Urban orchards provide important biodiversity and ecosystem services

Julia P. Kachanova, Sophia B. Steppe, Sarah E. Hobbs, Sarah M. Emery

Population genetics of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) in a heterogeneous urban landscape

Martín Scaltritti, Emiliano Muschetto, Ignacio M. Videla, Mariel A. Tripodi, Diego Hancke, Esteban Hasson, Viviana A. Confalonieri, Olga V. Suárez