Urban Ecosystems

A review on the work of German urban biodiversity networks – from national to international activities

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Norbert Müller, Peter Werner

Unleashed: walking dogs off the lead greatly increases habitat disturbance in UK lowland heathlands

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Rebecca L. Thomas, Sarah K. Papworth, Mark D.E. Fellowes

Greenspaces as shelters for the conservation of bird diversity in a big city

Jorge E. Ramírez-Albores, Luis A. Sánchez-González, Marlín Pérez-Suárez, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, Sergio Franco-Maass

High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity

Rocio Pamela Demartín, Romina Ghirardi, Javier Alejandro López

Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile

Andrés Muñoz-Pedreros, Heraldo V. Norambuena

A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management

August Wise, Anya Rosener, Arina Martin, Melissa Cote, Christopher D. Hopwood, Elizabeth Schwartz, Riley Tharp, Stephen Blake

Global review of services and conflicts provided by raptors in urbanized habitats

Eugenia A. Bonetti, Juan P. Isacch, Carla A. Paterlini, María S. Bó, Laura M. Biondi

Patterns in tree squirrel co-occurrence vary with responses to local land cover in US cities

Rachel N. Larson, Heather A. Sander, Mason Fidino, Julia L. Angstmann, Sheryl Hayes Hursh, Seth B. Magle, Katrina Moore, Carmen M. Salsbury, Theodore Stankowich, Katherine Tombs, Lauren Barczak, Alyssa M. Davidge, David Drake, Laurel Hartley, Pamela Reed Sanchez, Andrew Robey, Tom Snyder, Jacque Williamson, Amanda J. Zellmer

Evaluating ecological restoration in urban ecosystems with acoustic telemetry: marine and freshwater case studies

Morgan L. Piczak, Saron Berhe, Anne C. Knag, Robert J. Lennox, Knut Wiik Vollset, Rick Portiss, Jonathan D. Midwood, Steven J. Cooke

Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city

A. Enloe, J. A. G. Clark, J. S. Lewis, F. S. Albuquerque, B. Hughes, H. L. Bateman

Estimating changes in distribution trend of alien birds in urban areas using citizen science data

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Rui Lourenço, Carlos Godinho, Pedro A. Salgueiro, Rui R. Silva, Pedro F. Pereira

Wild sulphur-crested cockatoos match human activity rhythms to access food in the urban environment

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G. Fehlmann, J. M. Martin, K. Safi, L. M. Aplin

Insect herbivory on Acer rubrum varies across income and urbanization gradients in the D.C. metropolitan area

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Elizabeth Blake, Shelley Bennett, Amy Hruska, Kimberly J Komatsu

City dwellers: habitat connectivity and demographic responses of a semi-aquatic turtle in Australia

Bruno de Oliveira Ferronato, Anke Maria Hoefer, Isobel Booksmythe, Rod Ubrihien, Arthur Georges

No Mow May: Generating buzz and community science action to manage yards for bees and other pollinators

Relena Ribbons, Israel Del Toro

Urban equilibrium: legal imperatives for sustainable development and habitat preservation in Shenzhen, China

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Que Zhanwen, Md. Ziaul Islam

An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia

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Gonzalo Pradilla, Jochen Hack

Predation risk of caterpillar prey is shaped by arthropods and urbanisation in an urban-agricultural landscape: a common garden experiment

Jirriza O. Roquero, Asraf K. Lidasan, Navel Kyla B. Balasa, Angelo R. Agduma, Lothy F. Casim, Renee Jane A. Ele, Krizler C. Tanalgo

Effect of urbanisation on feces deposited across natural urban forest fragments

Harsh Yadav, Yuki Iwachido, Takehiro Sasaki

Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species

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Caitlin S. Willis, Dominique A. Potvin, Darian Cadwaladr, Erin K. Wills, Ben L. Gilby

Aquatic Condition Index: optimization of a rapid wetland assessment tool for evaluating urban wetland health

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Kevin J. Erratt, Felix Nwaishi, Tracy S. Lee, Abisola Allison, Vanessa A. Carney, Kaitlynn Bartlett, Irena F. Creed

The structure of plant-herbivore interactions in urban savanna fragments reveals an unexpected high specialization and dependency on plant and insect attributes

Walter Santos de Araújo, Érica Vanessa Durães de Freitas

Synanthropic rodents and urbanization processes: understanding the spatiotemporal pattern of rodent activity during urbanization works in a low-income neighborhood

Mariel A. Tripodi, Emiliano Muschetto, Carolina Massa, Gerardo R. Cueto, Diego Hancke, Olga V. Suárez

Exploring urban forests in Minas Gerais, Brazil: floristic diversity and biome-driven insights to green infrastructure planning

Wesley da Silva Fonseca, Angeline Martini, Sebastião Venâncio Martins, Mateus Enrique Amorim Oliveira, Laily Katerin Sanchez Dueñez, William Victor Lisboa Alves

Environmental equity and urban afforestation in the extreme northeastern Brazilian Amazon

L. A. Jimenez, S. M. Silvestre, J. A. Aquino, L. M. Freire, J. J. Toledo

The way “urbanization” is defined has strong implications for its effects on mammal abundance

Mairi K.P. Poisson, Fikirte Gebresenbet, Andrew R. Butler, Patrick Tate, Daniel H. Bergeron, Remington J. Moll

Species composition, distribution patterns, and conservation needs of large old trees in Baisha, southern China

Chunping Xie, Shanshan Wu, Dawei Liu, Wen Luo, C. Y. Jim

Socio-environmental drivers of human-nature interactions in urban green spaces

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Hogyeum Evan Joo, Jeffrey A. G. Clark, Peleg Kremer, Myla F. J. Aronson

Legacy effects of housing segregation on urban mammal communities in Washington, D.C., USA

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Merri K. Collins, Travis Gallo

Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds

Jesús Zuñiga-Palacios, Iriana Zuria

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

Urban pavements as a novel habitat for wild bees and other ground-nesting insects

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Claudia Weber, Grégoire Noël, Wiebke Sickel, Michael T. Monaghan, Aletta Bonn, Sophie Lokatis

How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity

Weicong Fu, Jingkai Huang, Chengyu Ran, Wenqiang Fang, Shiyuan Fan, Yujie Zhao, Peilin Huang, Ziluo Huang, Jiaying Dong, Yuqing Huang, Ziru Chen

Pollen diversity in urban honey: implications for bee foraging behaviour and urban green space planning

D. Shishira, A. R. Uthappa, S. B. Chavan, G. C. Kuberappa, Dinesh Jinger, A. N. Sringeswara

When scale matters to disentangle the effect of habitat and temperature on ground-dwelling spider communities in urban environments

Valentin Cabon, Dylan Amiar, Romain Georges, Vincent Dubreuil, Julien Pétillon, Hervé Quénol, Benjamin Bergerot

Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town

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Akinwale Oladimeji, Zoë Woodgate, M. Justin O’Riain

The urban in ecology: a quantitative textual analysis of the scientific literature over a century

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Silvia Flaminio, Joëlle Salomon Cavin, Guillaume Guex, Marco Moretti

Soil unsealing in Mediterranean schoolyards: what factors drive ant communities?

Louise Eydoux, Pierre Jay Robert, Bernard Kaufmann, Mickael Hedde, Alan Vergnes

Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates

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Jack R. Walker, Karl L. Evans, Rachel M. Jeffreys, Mani Pahlevani, Catherine L. Parr

Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient

Aditi Dutta, Indranil Samajpati, Parthiba Basu

Plant native: comparing biodiversity benefits, ecosystem services provisioning, and plant performance of native and non-native plants in urban horticulture

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Elena S. Tartaglia, Myla F.J. Aronson

Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes

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Yuqi Yang, Maria Ignatieva, Andrea Gaynor, Yuandong Hu

Correction to: 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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• Correction

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

Correction to: A review on the work of German urban biodiversity networks – from national to international activities

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• Correction

Norbert Müller, Peter Werner