Landscape‐scale differences among cities alter common species' responses to urbanization

M Fidino, T Gallo, EW Lehrer, MH Murray… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how biodiversity responds to urbanization is challenging, due in part to the
single‐city focus of most urban ecological research. Here, we delineate continent‐scale …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization impacts on mammals across urban-forest edges and a predictive model of edge effects

NR Villaseñor, DA Driscoll, MAH Escobar, P Gibbons… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
With accelerating rates of urbanization worldwide, a better understanding of ecological
processes at the wildland-urban interface is critical to conserve biodiversity. We explored the …

Advancing urban wildlife research through a multi‐city collaboration

SB Magle, M Fidino, EW Lehrer, T Gallo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research on urban wildlife can help promote coexistence and guide future interactions
between humans and wildlife in developed regions, but most such investigations are limited …

Wildlife population dynamics in urban landscapes

AD Rodewald, SD Gehrt - Urban wildlife conservation: theory and practice, 2014 - Springer
Species occur in urban landscapes under a wide range of conditions and densities, but
knowing only the pattern of occurrence provides limited information about species-specific …

Mammal diversity and metacommunity dynamics in urban green spaces: implications for urban wildlife conservation

T Gallo, M Fidino, EW Lehrer… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As urban growth expands and natural environments fragment, it is essential to understand
the ecological roles fulfilled by urban green spaces. To evaluate how urban green spaces …

Capitalizing on opportunistic citizen science data to monitor urban biodiversity: A multi-taxa framework

CT Callaghan, I Ozeroff, C Hitchcock… - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Monitoring urban biodiversity is increasingly important, given the increasing anthropogenic
pressures on biodiversity in urban areas. While the cost of broad-scale monitoring by …

Relationships between avian diversity, neighborhood age, income, and environmental characteristics of an urban landscape

SR Loss, MO Ruiz, JD Brawn - Biological Conservation, 2009 - Elsevier
Maintaining biodiversity in urbanizing landscapes has become a top conservation priority.
We examined variation in bird communities across a diverse array of urban and suburban …

At what spatial scale (s) do mammals respond to urbanization?

RJ Moll, JD Cepek, PD Lorch, PM Dennis… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial scale is fundamental in understanding species–landscape relationships because
species' responses to landscape characteristics typically vary across scales. Nonetheless …

Urbanization, climate and species traits shape mammal communities from local to continental scales

JD Haight, SJ Hall, M Fidino… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Human-driven environmental changes shape ecological communities from local to global
scales. Within cities, landscape-scale patterns and processes and species characteristics …

Urbanization focuses carnivore activity in remaining natural habitats, increasing species interactions

AW Parsons, CT Rota, T Forrester… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Interspecific interactions can provoke temporal and spatial avoidance, ultimately affecting
population densities and spatial distribution patterns. The ability (or inability) of species to …