In the past decade, numerous studies have explored how urbanisation affects the mean
phenotypes of populations, but it remains unknown how urbanisation impacts phenotypic …

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 …

1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite
that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …

Human-driven environmental changes shape ecological communities from local to global
scales. Within cities, landscape-scale patterns and processes and species characteristics …

Urbanization often exerts multiple effects on aquatic and terrestrial organisms, including
changes in biodiversity, species composition and ecosystem functions. However, the …

Longitudinal environmental heterogeneity and directionality of the water movement are key
features that may exert contrasting forces on riverine plankton assembly. Directionality …

Risk-taking in birds is often measured as the flight initiation distance (FID), the distance at
which individuals take flight when approached by a potential predator (typically a human) …

Explicit characterisation of the complexity of urban landscapes is critical for understanding
patterns of biodiversity and for detecting the underlying social and ecological processes that …

Understanding the composition of urban wildlife communities is crucial to promote
biodiversity, ecosystem function and links between nature and people. Using crowdsourced …

Urban green spaces (UGS) are essential for human well-being, contributing towards quality
of life and promoting social interactions and inclusion. Accessibility to recreational UGS is …