Urban Ecosystems

Citizen-science data identifies the daily movement patterns and habitat associations of a nocturnal urban-invading bird species (Corvus frugilegus)

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Jiweon Yun, Wonhyeop Shin, Jihwan Kim, James H. Thorne, Youngkeun Song

Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes

Sabrina Cloutier, Poliana Mendes, Jérôme Cimon-Morin, Stéphanie Pellerin, Valérie Fournier, Monique Poulin

Water snakes have a high diversity of parasites in anthropized environments

Monique C. Oliveira, Cristiana Ferreira-Silva, Reinaldo J. Silva, Frederico G. R. França, Ricardo Lorenço-de-Moraes

What factors are influencing peri-urban forest carbon storage in different land use types based on permanent plots from 2009–2018

Yanyan Wei, Min Zhao, Jun Gao

China’s urban green growth from 2000 to 2020 is influenced by legacy effects

Hai-Li Zhang, Hao Xiu, Mir Muhammad Nizamani, Qing Zhou, Kaijun Long, Yunfan Quan, Tingting Fu, Qinghui Sun

Urban beaver ponds show limited impact on stream carbon quantity in contrast to stormwater ponds

Julian Sheppy, Elizabeth B. Sudduth, Sandra Clinton, Diego Riveros-Iregui, Sarah H. Ledford

Use of wildlife-friendly structures in residential gardens by animal wildlife: evidence from citizen scientists in a global biodiversity hotspot

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Bronte E Van Helden, Laura M Skates, Paul G Close

Insects as potential vectors of phytoplasmas in urban trees in a mega-city: a case study in Bogotá, Colombia

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Andres Felipe Silva-Castaño, Helena Brochero, Liliana Franco-Lara

The invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides modifies the sediment microbiome in urban and periurban river wetlands

Tong Wang, Jinming Yang, Yongfeng Zhu, Zeyu Zhang, Xiaolong Chi, Zhen Sun, Chunlin Wang, Lizheng Fang, Hongrui Dou, Zhenghao Fan, Shimei Li, Chunhua Liu

Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation

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Nihaib Flores-Galicia, Erick Gutiérrez, Irma Trejo

Where the risk is more intense: riparian forests keep the euglossine bees community most affected by anthropic disturbance in the Caatinga dry forest

Aline Mariza Costa Mariano, Arthur Domingos-Melo, Eduardo Gonçalves da Silva, Antonio Marcos dos Santos, Márcia de Fátima Ribeiro, Paulo Milet-Pinheiro

Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas

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J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, Monserrat Suárez-Rodríguez, Gonzalo A. Ramírez-Cruz, Israel Solano-Zavaleta

Nitrogen availability and denitrification in urban agriculture and regreened vacant lots

Philip E. Conrad, Richard E. Marinos

Creative management: a framework for designing multifunctional play biotopes - lessons from a Scandinavian landscape laboratory

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Björn Wiström, Fredrika Mårtensson, Åsa Ode Sang, Anna Litsmark, Marcus Hedblom

Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus

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P. Tiago, A. I. Leal, I. T. Rosário, S. Chozas

A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes

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Leonardo Ancillotto, Fabio Mosconi, Rocco Labadessa

Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience

Vanessa Gorecki, Monika Rhodes, Stuart Parsons

Common camas (Camassia quamash) response across an urban–rural gradient in coastal oak meadows in Greater Victoria, Canada

Erin Rolleman, Trevor Lantz, Darcy Mathews, Nancy Shackelford

Spatiotemporal use of urban rivers by local bat populations in a large city (Cracow, Southern Poland)

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Joanna Kohyt, Justyna Karczmarz, Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan, Ewa Pierzchała

Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China

Hengyue Zhao, Zhiwen Chen, Min Zhang, Hongyu Niu, Hongmao Zhang

You are what you eat: urban soil lead predicts American robin (Turdus migratorius) blood lead in Flint, MI

Dorothy L. Zahor, Kenneth J. Glynn, Brian Majestic, Jamie M. Cornelius

Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design

Shari L. Wilson

Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions

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Annemarie Tabea Roth, Janina Kleemann, Marcin Spyra

The luxury effect in urban aquatic ecosystems: exploring drivers of change

Piatã Marques, Andrew T.M. Chin, Jonathan L.W. Ruppert, Nicholas E. Mandrak

Effects of urbanization-related disturbances on macroinvertebrate communities in a Patagonian river system: insights from a functional approach

Emilio A. Williams-Subiza, Cecilia Brand, Yanina A. Assef, Marta G. Grech, M. Laura Miserendino

The overlooked margins: how cities impact diversity of plants and terrestrial invertebrates along urban streams

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Carolina Oliveira Campos, Salomé F. P. Almeida, Sónia R. Q. Serra, Ana Raquel Calapez, Paulo Silveira, Maria João Feio

Urban biodiversity and design in time of (post)pandemics: research perspectives from URBIO international network

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Diana Dushkova, Maria Ignatieva, Anastasia Konstantinova, Charles Nilon, Norbert Müller

Species richness and ecological connectivity of the mammal communities in urban and peri-urban areas at Mexico City

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Pablo César Hernández Romero, Juan J. Von Thaden Ugalde, Carlos E. Muench, Diego Magaña Rodríguez, María del Coro Arizmendi, Francisco Botello, David A. Prieto-Torres

Urban nature-based solutions planning for biodiversity outcomes: human, ecological, and artificial intelligence perspectives

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Veljko Prodanovic, Peter M. Bach, Milan Stojkovic

Ant-plant networks exhibit distinct species diversity but similar organization in urban and wild areas of neotropical savannas

Samira Rosa de Oliveira Lima, Edvânia Costa de Oliveira Sá, Poliane Neres Morais, Tatianne Gizelle Marques Silva, Wesley Dáttilo, Walter Santos de Araújo

Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations

Nickolas Zazula, S. Jeff Birchall

Embracing ambivalence as the key to promoting tree diversities as nature-based solutions in European cities

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Dagmar Haase, Diana Dushkova

Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening

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Ermenegilda Vitale, Pasquale Napoletano, Claudio Colombo, Carmen Arena, Anna De Marco

The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens

Asia Kaiser, Julian Resasco

The distribution and abundance of woody invasive alien plants in small towns in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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Tshepiso Collen Seboko, Sheunesu Ruwanza, Charlie Shackleton

Monitoring of mammal and bird species in an urban ecological park using environmental DNA metabarcoding

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Heejung Sohn, Youngkeun Song

Perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services in urban river systems, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Elizabeth A. Mack, Frank C. Akamagwuna, Chenai Murata, Fenji Materechera-Mitochi, Chika Felicitas Nnadozie, Oghenekaro Nelson Odume

Patterns and correlates in the distribution, design and management of garden ponds along an urban–rural gradient

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Andrew J. Hamer, Barbara Barta, Zsuzsanna Márton, Csaba F. Vad, Beáta Szabó, Irene Tornero, Zsófia Horváth

Water availability and proximity to natural areas influence plant and terrestrial invertebrate communities in urban stormwater basins and ponds

Matisse Petit-Prost, Monique Poulin, André Desrochers, Isabelle Lavoie

Pollinator abundance, not the richness, benefits from urban green spaces in intensive agricultural land

Leonardo Lorenzato, Edy Fantinato, Daniele Sommaggio, Sebastiano Favarin, Gabriella Buffa

Using social networks to explore the social flexibility of urban vervet monkeys

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Harriet R. Thatcher, Colleen T. Downs, Nicola F. Koyama

Are acoustic indices useful for monitoring urban biodiversity?

Eduardo Guimarães Santos, Helga Correa Wiederhecker, Vinicius Tirelli Pompermaier, Sofia Coradini Schirmer, Alison M. Gainsbury, Miguel Ângelo Marini

Urban ecology of Drosophila suzukii

Romain Ulmer, Aude Couty, Patrice Eslin, Françoise Dubois, Emilie Gallet‐Moron, Nicolas Lamotte, Justine Pavis, Alice Samama, Fabien Spicher, Olivier Chabrerie

Urban eastern gray squirrels (sciurus carolinensis) show little seasonal variation in biochemical and hematological parameters

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Rebecca Rimbach, Olivia A. Petritz, Julie A. Balko, Herman Pontzer