The increase of minimally managed vacant land resulting from population loss and the
subsequent removal of infrastructure is a reoccurring feature in shrinking cities around the …

Urban ecosystems are widely hypothesized to be more ecologically homogeneous than
natural ecosystems. We argue that urban plant communities assemble from a complex mix …

Aim Cities represent an ideal study system for assessing how intensive land‐use change
and biotic interchange have altered beta diversity at broad geographic extents. Here we test …

Background Urbanization is characterized by high levels of sealed land-cover, and small,
geometrically complex, fragmented land-use patches. The extent and density of urbanized …

Urban Ecology: An Introduction seeks to open the reader's mind and eyes to the way in
which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for …

We collected ants from six urban and one forest land-use types in Raleigh, NC to examine
the effects of urbanization on species richness and assemblage composition. Since urban …

Aim We propose and test a climate tolerance and trait choice hypothesis of urban
macroecological variation in which strong filtering associated with low winter temperatures …

Urban plant diversity influences the social functioning and well-being of urban dwellers.
However, the patterns and drivers of plant diversity in tropical urban areas are still not …

Socio-economic and environmental drivers are important determinants urban plant richness
patterns. The scale at which these patterns are observed in different regions, however, has …

Urbanization is a major driver of land cover change worldwide, yet little is known about how
urbanization affects beneficial arthropod communities. This study examined how local and …