Response of forest soil properties to urbanization gradients in three metropolitan areas

RV Pouyat, ID Yesilonis, K Szlavecz, C Csuzdi… - Landscape …, 2008 - Springer
We investigated the effects of urban environments on the chemical properties of forest soils
in the metropolitan areas of Baltimore, New York, and Budapest. We hypothesized that soils …

Knowledge and prevention of tick-borne diseases vary across an urban-to-rural human land-use gradient

BR Bayles, G Evans, BF Allan - Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2013 - Elsevier
We sought to determine the behavioral risk of exposure to tick-borne diseases across a
human land-use gradient in a region endemic for diseases transmitted by the lone star tick …

Land use policy shocks in the post-communist urban fringe: A case study of Estonia

A Roose, A Kull, M Gauk, T Tali - Land Use Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Urban land use has been a major driving force behind land use change in Estonia since
regaining independence and land reform process in the 1990s. The study summarizes land …

Interfacing models of wildlife habitat and human development to predict the future distribution of puma habitat

CL Burdett, KR Crooks, DM Theobald, KR Wilson… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of human land uses on ecological systems typically differ relative to how
extensively natural conditions are modified. Exurban development is intermediate‐intensity …

Conservation value of clustered housing developments

BA Lenth, RL Knight, WC Gilgert - Conservation biology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, exurban lands in Colorado have been subdivided into a grid of parcels ranging
from 2 to 16 ha. From an ecological perspective, this dispersed pattern of development …

A method for the use of landscape metrics in freshwater research and management

FR Kearns, NM Kelly, JL Carter, VH Resh - Landscape ecology, 2005 - Springer
Freshwater research and management efforts could be greatly enhanced by a better
understanding of the relationship between landscape-scale factors and water quality …

Impact of urbanization on soil microbial diversity and composition in the megacity of Shanghai

L Liu, A Barberán, C Gao, Z Zhang… - Land Degradation & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization alters the physicochemical environment on an unprecedented scale and
strongly affects biodiversity. How urbanization affects the biodiversity of soil microbial …

Defining urban, suburban, and rural: a method to link perceptual definitions with geospatial measures of urbanization in central and eastern Massachusetts

AG Short Gianotti, JM Getson, LR Hutyra… - Urban ecosystems, 2016 - Springer
Developing greater understandings of socio-ecological relationships across urbanizing
areas is increasingly recognized as important for the conservation and management of …

Housing density as an indicator of spatial patterns of reported human–wildlife interactions in Northern New York

HE Kretser, PJ Sullivan, BA Knuth - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2008 - Elsevier
Compromises in biodiversity and biotic integrity from human development alter native
wildlife communities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that increases in residential …

The potential impacts of sprawl on farmland in Northeast China—Evaluating a new strategy for rural development

F Xi, HS He, KC Clarke, Y Hu, X Wu, M Liu, T Shi… - Landscape and Urban …, 2012 - Elsevier
China's “building a new countryside” strategy for coordinating urban and rural development
and gearing up national economic growth brings challenges to the country's farmland …