Urban Ecosystems

The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration

Yun Zheng, Yu Fan, Jiayang Ji, Changgeng Jia, Kunyu Luo, Chaoxiang Wei, Youtao Song

Linkages between plant functional diversity and soil-based ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban vacant lots

Poliana Mendes, Bérenger Bourgeois, Stéphanie Pellerin, Carly D Ziter, Jérôme Cimon-Morin, Monique Poulin

Disentangling drivers of temporal changes in urban pond macroinvertebrate diversity

• Open Access

Gustaf Granath, Chaz Hyseni, Luis Mauricio Bini, Jani Heino, Jean C. G. Ortega, Frank Johansson

Are southern temperate urban natural forests a suitable habitat for beetle diversity? A case study in Chile

Francisco Tello, Cristobal Tello-Arriagada, Fernanda Olivares, Carlos LeQuesne, Rodrigo M. Barahona-Segovia, Cristian Montalva

Built vs. Green cover: an unequal struggle for urban space in Medellín (Colombia)

Carolina Paniagua-Villada, Jaime A. Garizábal-Carmona, Víctor M. Martínez-Arias, N. Javier Mancera-Rodríguez

Urban floristic diversity in Bosnia and Herzegovina—the reflection of nature

Biljana Lubarda, Milica Rat, Slađana Petronić, Nermina Sarajlić, Nataša Marić, Tanja Maksimović, Goran Anačkov

Understanding predictors of mistletoe infection across an urban university campus in Southwest China

• Open Access

Yuchen Niu, Benjamin Laffitte, Sophia Zuoqiu, Barnabas C. Seyler, Zhengang Ha, Jianan Chen, Lei Chen, Ya Tang

Song amplitude variation in Masked Gnatcatcher (Polioptila dumicola) as response to traffic noise

Evelina J. León, Rodrigo E. Lorenzón, Lorena V. Sovrano, Adolfo H. Beltzer, Paola M. Peltzer

Comments on the paper “correlation does not imply causation: decline of House Sparrow overshadowed by electromagnetic radiation” by Nath et al.

A. Balmori, A. Balmori-de la Puente

Urban pondscape connecting people with nature and biodiversity in a medium-sized European city (Geneva, Switzerland)

• Open Access

Fernanda Vasco, Jacques-Aristide Perrin, Beat Oertli

Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China

Moli Gu, Changsheng Ye

Invasion of Pieris mannii butterflies across Central Europe facilitated by urbanization

• Open Access

Simona C. Ruffener, Nathalie Matthey-de-l’Endroit, Daniel Berner

Unveiling urban ecological integrity: spatially explicit assessment in contrasting environments

• Open Access

Richard Lemoine-Rodríguez, Michelle García-Arroyo, Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez, Meri Back, Tonje Lindeman, Ian MacGregor-Fors

Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape

• Open Access

Glenda Vanessa dos Santos Bernardino, Vanessa Pontes Mesquita, Paulo Estefano Dineli Bobrowiec, Luciana Iannuzzi, Renato Portela Salomão, Cintia Cornelius

Observations and modelling of mosquito prevalence within urban areas – A case study from Uppsala, Sweden

• Open Access

Fredrik Lindberg, Anders Lindström, Ville Stålnacke, Sofia Thorsson, Georgia Destouni

Growth performance of multi-species plant mixtures on an extensive vegetated roof: A two-year experimental study

Natalia Cáceres, Federico Omar Robbiati, Mario Suárez, Emmanuel Christian Hick, Evangelina Matoff, Chi Yung Jim, Leonardo Galetto, Lelia Imhof

The behaviour of Athene cunicularia (Molina 1782) on the coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and the influence of urbanization on daily activity

Alana Drielle Rocha, Joaquim Olinto Branco

Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system

Corina Vissio, Eugenia M. Drewniak, Andrea A. Cocucci, Marcela Moré, Santiago Benitez-Vieyra, Adrián Giaquinta, Florencia Soteras

Biostimulants do not affect the performance of urban plant species grown under drought stress

• Open Access

Ariningsun Cinantya, Anthony Manea, Michelle R. Leishman

Urban patches of dry forest as refuges for ants and carabid beetles in a neotropical overcrowded city

• Open Access

Nataly Forero-Chavez, Anderson Arenas-Clavijo, Inge Armbrecht, James Montoya-Lerma

Can you nest where you roost? Waterbirds use different sites but similar cues to locate roosting and breeding sites in a small Indian city

Kanishka Mehta, Vijay K. Koli, Swati Kittur, K. S. Gopi Sundar

Wildlife and the city. Modelling wild boar use of urban nature: Empirical contribution, methodological proposal

Carole Marin, Laurent Couderchet, Grégoire Le Campion, Jérôme Werno

The effect of root shaving and biostimulant application on the transplant success of six common Australian urban tree species

• Open Access

Ariningsun Cinantya, Anthony Manea, Michelle R. Leishman

Initiating, innovating and accelerating edible cities. A case study based on two transition experiments in the city of Dresden (Germany)

• Open Access

Kristin Reiß, Thea Luisa Seifert, Martina Artmann

Bird population changes in urban green spaces explained by regional population trends

• Open Access

Carmen Emilie Skjelvik, Svein Dale

Evaluating the driving factors of the environmental injustice caused by the spatial mismatch of ecosystem services in mega cities in China

Chenjie Gu, Qian Shi, Chao Tongji

Exploring the value of ecosystem services at health clinic gardens in a South African context

• Open Access

N. Gwedla, M. Muller, S. S. Cilliers, C. Niesing, P. Bester, M.J. Du Toit

Relevance of forest fragments and synanthropic habitats for the maintenance of non-phyllostomid bats in an anthropogenic matrix

Jeanneson Sales, Patrício Adriano da Rocha

Higher rat abundance in greener urban areas

• Open Access

Marieke P. de Cock, Helen J. Esser, Wim H. M. van der Poel, Hein Sprong, Miriam Maas

Correction to: Reptile responses to outdoor recreation in urban habitat fragments

• Correction

Courtney L. Larson, Sarah E. Reed, Kevin R. Crooks