Many scientific studies on urban green space start with stressing the multiple benefits of
parks and other green areas (Lyytimäki and Sipilä, 2009). There is general agreement, at …

There is growing recognition of urban areas as hosts for innovative ways to conserve and
promote biodiversity. Parks, as one specific type of urban green space, constitute particularly …

Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) are the most successful crustacean colonizers of land
habitats. From an evolutionary point of view, they are excellent examples of model …

Names: Douglas, Ian, 1936–editor.| Routledge (Firm) Title: The Routledge handbook of
urban ecology/edited by Ian Douglas, Pippin Anderson, David Goode, Michael C. Houck …

Urban green spaces provide habitat for numerous plant and animal species. However,
currently we have little knowledge on which determinants drive the species richness within …

Urban ecology is a rapidly growing research field that has to keep pace with the pressing
need to tackle the sustainability crisis. As an inherently multi‐disciplinary field with close ties …

This essay, which provides an overview of recent urban biodiversity research, highlights the
field's basic principles by drawing from specific results that have emerged from the Baltimore …

The unique properties of terrestrial isopods regarding responses to limiting factors such as
drought and temperature have led to interesting distributional patterns along climatic and …

Cities can be regionalized in intra-urban and peri-urban areas. The space between urban
areas and adjacent systems represents an ecological transition that often acts as a semi …

Urban areas attract birds during the winter when cities provide a predictable source of food
and relatively stable weather conditions. However, many other factors determine the …