The majority of humanity now lives in cities or towns, with this proportion expected to
continue increasing for the foreseeable future. As novel ecosystems, urban areas offer an …

The conversion of Earth's land surface to urban uses is one of the most irreversible human
impacts on the global biosphere. It drives the loss of farmland, affects local climate …

Land use/land cover (LULC) change has serious implications for environment as LULC is
directly related to land degradation over a period of time and results in many changes in the …

Aim Although urbanization impacts many species, there is little information on the patterns of
occurrences of threatened species in urban relative to non‐urban areas. By assessing the …

Urbanization contributes to the loss of the world's biodiversity and the homogenization of its
biota. However, comparative studies of urban biodiversity leading to robust generalities of …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Cities are rapidly expanding world‐wide and there is an increasing urgency to protect urban
biodiversity, principally through the provision of suitable habitat, most of which is in urban …

An understanding of risks to biodiversity is needed for planning action to slow current rates
of decline and secure ecosystem services for future human use. Although the IUCN Red List …

Urban areas concentrate people, economic activity, and the built environment. As such,
urbanization is simultaneously a demographic, economic, and land-use change …

Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans …