Outstanding challenges for urban conservation research and action

A Shwartz, A Turbé, R Julliard, L Simon… - Global environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Researchers, advocates and policymakers have proposed urban conservation as an
emerging, integrative discipline that can contribute to sustainable cities by delivering co …

Town and country reptiles: a review of reptilian responses to urbanization

SS French, AC Webb, SB Hudson… - Integrative and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The majority of the world population is now inhabiting urban areas, and with staggering
population growth, urbanization is also increasing. While the work studying the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment

DJ Kotze, EC Lowe, JS MacIvor, A Ossola, BA Norton… - Urban …, 2022 - Springer
Invertebrates comprise the most diversified animal group on Earth. Due to their long
evolutionary history and small size, invertebrates occupy a remarkable range of ecological …

Sharing or sparing? How should we grow the world's cities?

BB Lin, RA Fuller - Journal of applied ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There has long been a debate amongst conservation biologists about how agricultural land
use should be distributed spatially. Advocates of land sparing argue that high‐intensity food …

Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution

AP Sullivan, DW Bird, GH Perry - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Due to our intensive subsistence and habitat-modification strategies—including broad-
spectrum harvesting and predation, widespread landscape burning, settlement construction …

Diversity of wild bees supports pollination services in an urbanized landscape

DM Lowenstein, KC Matteson, ES Minor - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Plantings in residential neighborhoods can support wild pollinators. However, it is unknown
how effectively wild pollinators maintain pollination services in small, urban gardens with …

Socio‐ecological drivers of multiple zoonotic hazards in highly urbanized cities

MA Combs, PA Kache, MC VanAcker… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic is a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of
pathogen spillover from wildlife to human hosts, particularly in densely populated urban …

Hormones in the city: endocrine ecology of urban birds

F Bonier - Hormones and Behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
Urbanization dramatically changes the landscape, presenting organisms with novel
challenges and often leading to reduced species diversity. Urban ecologists have …

Socio-economics and vegetation change in urban ecosystems: patterns in space and time

GW Luck, LT Smallbone, R O'Brien - Ecosystems, 2009 - Springer
Abstract By 2050, 70% of the Earth's human population will live in urban areas. Urbanization
can have a devastating impact on local ecosystems, but these impacts vary across time and …

[HTML][HTML] Public perceptions and attitudes toward urban wildlife encounters–A decade of change

SM Basak, MS Hossain, DT O'Mahony… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Europe is currently undergoing dynamic land use changes causing the expansion of urban
habitat, which is driving wildlife species to colonise conurbations, resulting in an increased …