The Sonoran Desert and Apache Highlands ecoregions of North America are areas of
exceptionally high plant and vertebrate biodiversity. However, much of the vertebrate …

Urban forest soils play a pivotal role in enhancing the environmental sustainability of cities,
contributing to various natural processes, including plant–microbe interactions, microbial …

Community-based forest management takes myriad forms, including community forestry,
urban and community forestry, and joint forest management. These variations are all …

Unprecedented population growth and urban expansion are rapidly transforming natural
and agricultural settings into highly modified urban and suburban landscapes in developed …

Context With underrepresentation of habitats in publicly protected areas, attention has
focused on the function of alternative land conservation mechanisms. Private conservation …

This paper is a review of the concepts of rurality and urbanity and of various approaches to
their differentiation. The author reviews the continuum and dichotomy of rurality and urbanity …

A wide variety of metrics is used to quantify features of urbanization in ecological studies.
Selecting statistically independent measures of urbanization depends upon the nature …

Native ecosystem and biodiversity loss from land use conversion into human‐modified
landscapes are evident in the United States and globally. In addition to public land …

Understanding the processes that create repeatable patterns in urban bird distributions is a
challenge that requires investigation at multiple spatial, temporal, and biological scales …

There is a growing concern about integrating biodiversity into urban planning, yet,
discussions are concentrated on science-informed planning in general. Few have explored …