Contemporary cities are expanding rapidly in a spatially complex, non-linear manner.
However, this form of expansion is rarely taken into account in the way that urbanization is …

Rapid urbanization has become an area of crucial concern in conservation owing to the
radical changes in habitat structure and loss of species engendered by urban and suburban …

In this era of rapidly urbanising human populations, urban practitioners are under increasing
pressure to create resilient and sustainable cities and towns. Urban ecologists currently …

Urban biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of how urbanization modulates
biodiversity patterns and the associated ecosystem services. While important advances …

Effective planning for biodiversity in cities and towns is increasingly important as urban
areas and their human populations grow, both to achieve conservation goals and because …

This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—
ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a …

Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by
orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …

The field of urban ecology has seen a major expansion in the last two decades. As the world
rapidly urbanizes, human settlements constitute one of the few ecosystems on earth that are …

Cities across the globe are driving systemic change in social and ecological systems by
accelerating the rates of interactions and intensifying the links between human activities and …

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is
therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns …