Urban Ecosystems

Drivers of woody plant phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity across an urban density gradient

• Open Access

Justice Muvengwi, Hilton G. T. Ndagurwa, Tatenda Nyenda, Ed T. F. Witkowski, Monicah Mbiba

Global wildlife roadkill research: a bibliometric synthesis of historical trends, thematic gaps, and future directions

• Open Access

Chutamas Sukhontapatipak, Chanpen Saralamba, Piyathip Piyapan, Paphawadee Duangta, Thanaphat Klubchum, Weerachon Sawangproh

Bird community responses to urbanization and vegetation parameters across the city of Salzburg, Austria

• Open Access

Beate A. Apfelbeck, Marina Navalpotro Buscail, Anna Sommer, Jana S. Petermann

Identifying the factors that influence raccoon (Procyon lotor) and southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) use of stormwater sewer systems

Alan A. Ivory II, Matt T. Hallett, Miguel A. Acevedo, Brett R. Scheffers, Kody M. Brock, Steve A. Johnson

Unravelling the relationship between soil, habitat, and species distribution patterns in an urbanized desert landscape: insights from Southern oases, Western Desert, Egypt

• Open Access

Monier Abd El-Ghani, Marwa Ragaey, Salwa Abd El-Wahab, Ali Gaafar

Enhancing urban lawn diversity: investigating survival, growth, flowering, and pollinator attractiveness of groundcover plant species

Anaïs Grenier, Frédéric McCune, Étienne Normandin, Ann-Catherine Laliberté, Colin Favret, Valérie Fournier, Guillaume Grégoire

Supplementary urban green infrastructure: community perceptions of trees and their benefits

Nurul L. Winarni, Mega Atria, Afiatry Putrika, Aisyah Gina

Island biogeography in urban landscapes: small island effect and nestedness in bryophyte communities of urban parks in Shanghai, China

Fumin Lei, Yiyi Shan, Dandan Li, Xiangzhang Wu, Jun Yang, Shuiliang Guo, Jing Yu

Recognising lawns as a part of “designed nature”. Pioneering study of lawn’s plant biodiversity in Australian context

• Open Access

Maria Ignatieva, Sofie Nielsen, Daniel Jan Martin

Landscape Parameters and Their Role in Supporting Bird Diversity: A Study of Urban Parks in Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Fudzla Zulfa Khiruddin, Norfazliyana Nordin, Fatihah Najihah Arazmi, Saiful Hilmi Jamal Shuhaily, Mohd Ros Effendi, Mohammad Saiful Mansor

Urban heat and latitude: contrasting effects on ant diversity across cities

• Open Access

Clint A. Penick, Zachary Peagler, Layne Buttram, Robert R. Dunn, Steven D. Frank, Elsa Youngsteadt

Trends in sika deer population in an urban–suburban area

Takashi Ikeda, Yukiko Matsuura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiromasa Igota, Takuma Watanabe, Tomoya Shichijo

Trait plasticity and invasion success of Ageratum conyzoides in subtropical urban landscapes

Muhammad Waheed, Fahim Arshad, David M. Richardson, Abeer Al-Andal, Kaniz Fatima

Avian diversity at Mekelle university campus: a blueprint for urban green spaces in semi-arid areas of Tigray, Ethiopia

Kiros Welegerima, Getachew Mulualem, Dawit Kidane, Yacob T. Tesfaldet

Small but connected: assessing the contribution of civic-led hedgerow planting on landscape connectivity in periurban Paris

• Open Access

Hugo Rochard, Céline Clauzel, Nathalie Blanc

Designing urban garden beds: native vegetation creates healthy habitats for arthropods in Melbourne, Australia

• Open Access

Nicola J. Sockhill, Brenda B. Lin, Katherine Berthon, Freya Thomas, Richard A. Fuller, Sarah Bekessy

Anthropogenic subsidies affect arthropod communities and native litter decomposition in an urban riparian forest

Vashti Devi B. Mahadeo, Dave J. Colucci, Weixing Zhu

Towards Global Biodiversity Framework Target 12: mapping urban biodiversity monitoring programmes – a case study for Berlin, Germany

• Open Access

Silvia Keinath, Jörg Freyhof, Katharina Kasper, Martina Lutz, Ronja Velder, Dirk Riestenpatt, Falk Petzold, Johannes Schwarz, Wiebke Ponick, Regina Eidner, Justus Meißner, Susanne Bengsch, Nike Sommerwerk

Limited effects of short-term nutrient enrichment or abrupt light changes on daytime periphyton nutrient uptake in urban streams

Yang Fu, Ruzhong Li

Spatiotemporal factors influencing bird collisions in urban and suburban areas

Joo-Hee Kim, Se-Eun Noh, Dong-Ho Lee, Na-Young Kim, Jeong-Woo Kim, Shin-Jae Rhim

Culvert design and position in the landscape predict the presence of trawling bat culvert roosts in an urban environment

• Open Access

Vanessa Gorecki, Stuart Parsons, Ramona Maggini

Urban forests as habitats for vascular epiphytes and allied terrestrial plants

Maria Berenice Jarquin-Pacheco, Samaria Armenta-Montero, Jazmín Contreras-López, César I. Carvajal-Hernández

Identifying, surveying and monitoring urban biodiversity through citizen science in the Siena BiodiverCity project

Debora Barbato, Andrea Benocci, Chiara Bratto, Giuseppe Manganelli

Environmental contamination predicts mammal diversity and mesocarnivore activity in the Seattle-Tacoma metro area

• Open Access

Yasmine Hentati, Cesar O. Estien, Zachary Hawn, Mark J. Jordan, Robert A. Long, Rachael Mueller, Katie R. Remine, Laura R. Prugh, Christopher J. Schell

Urban rewilding in singapore: from a conservation strategy to a Sociocultural proposition

Yun Hye Hwang

Comment on the paper “Citizens’ perceptions and willingness to pay for urban beekeeping: a case study in Northern Italy” by Notaro et al. (2025)

• Comment

Justyna Kierat

Green infrastructure dynamics in the urban areas of subarctic Western Siberia

Dmitriy Moskovchenko, Roman Fedorov, Artur Fakhretdinov

Evaluation of climate justice in open green spaces based on landscape metrics: the case of Istanbul

Eren Dağra Sökmen, Onur Aksoy

Informal green spaces providing ecosystem services to solve the green space paradox

Ting Liu, Ying Yang, Yixin Zhang

A biogeographical analysis of taxonomic diversity and native species dominance in 32 Canadian street tree populations

Alexander J. F. Martin, Lukas G. Olson, Emma S. Bacon, Andrew D. Almas, Carly D. Ziter, Tenley M. Conway

Assessment of crop damage by Asiatic black bear in Kupwara, Northwestern Himalayas: patterns, impacts, and conservation perspectives

Uzma Dawood, Zubair Ahmad Teli, Lubna Rashid, Samina A. Charoo, Bilal A. Bhat

Greening the concrete: socio-economic patterns of wild plant utilization in rapidly urbanizing biodiversity hotspots

Sebastián Cordero, Jonás Arenas, Yareta Bruna-Almeida, Francisca Gálvez

The effects of urbanization on species richness and floristic diversity in residential gardens

Tuba Gül Doğan, Sena Demirci, Engin Eroğlu, Ömer Lütfü Çorbacı, Sertaç Kaya, Alperen Meral

Spatial distribution of bat-related complaints and bloodmeal sources of the common vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) in the City of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Caio Vinicius Almeida Barreto de Souza, Aroldo José Borges Carneiro, Ricardo Lustosa, Barbara Maria Paraná da Silva Souza, Sabrina Mota Lambert, Vinicius José da Silva Cardoso de Brito, Caio Graco Zeppelini, Carlos Roberto Franke

Seeds of a perennial plant (Quercus variabilis) were smaller, dispersed less frequently and shorter, and had poorer seedling growth performance in city areas than in rural areas

Hengyue Zhao, Min Zhang, Zhiwen Chen, Xinyue Chen, Lu Chen, Chao Zhang, Hongyu Niu, Hongmao Zhang

Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba

• Open Access

Antonio López-Almirall, Sandra Duarte, Nathalie Machon

Intraspecific body size variation in spiders is mediated by multiple stressors in an urban area

• Open Access

Elena Piano, Anna Piquet, Marco Isaia

Valuing urban wetlands for sustainable land use: recreational services and economic insights from a travel cost framework

Thelikada Palliyage Shashika Ranganie Guruge, Prabath Chaminda Abeysiriwardana, Iruviman Virajith Kuruppu, Aluthgedara Lahiru Janitha Bandara

Rethinking urban ecology and urban development nexus: a methodological framework for mapping ecological security in rapidly urbanizing cities

Subrata Ghosh, Santanu Dinda, Nilanjana Das Chatterjee

The quality inequity of the ecosystem services delivered by green spaces: evidence from 226 Urban Parks in Hangzhou, China

Jiajun Huang, Qinghai Guo, Gang Lian

How green infrastructure change shapes regulating ecosystem services in urban landscapes? Trade-offs between urban cooling and stormwater retention in Taipei

Pak Ying Chan, Hao-Wei Chiu

Resilience assessment and spatial optimization of urban ecological network based on complex network theory and PLUS model

Xiangping Liu, Zhuowei Hu, Yongcai Wang, Mi Wang, Wenxing Hou

Quantification of the ecosystem services provided by public and private green in a residential area of Bologna, Northern Italy

• Open Access

Cinzia De Benedictis, Marianna Nardino, Letizia Cremonini, Luisa Neri, Edoardo Fiorillo

Integrated geospatial assessment of human footprint impact on regulating ecosystem services in the Himalayan urban landscape

Mohd Rihan, Mohd Waseem Naikoo, Devojani Neog, Shahfahad, Md Rejaul Islam, Intejar Ansari, Swapan Talukdar, Intikhab Ahmad, Atiqur Rahman

Unravelling the paths to urban fruitfulness: factors behind insect pollination and reproductive success of a native tree

• Research

Giovana María Galfrascoli, María Silvina Fenoglio, Alejandro Enet, Gloria Robles, Ana Calviño

Diversity and composition of plant communities in former lawns converted into urban meadows

Chloé Leblanc-Gagné, Marie-Hélène Brice, Stéphanie Pellerin