The majority of humanity now lives in cities or towns, with this proportion expected to
continue increasing for the foreseeable future. As novel ecosystems, urban areas offer an …

As a form of green infrastructure, green roofs can enhance urban biodiversity by providing
complex vegetation structures, supplying increased foraging and roosting opportunities for …

Urban and periurban forests, which are integrated within the concept of Green Infrastructure,
provide important Ecosystem Services, including air purification. In this study, we quantified …

A lack of information about urban habitats, and a lack of professionally-collected species
occurrence data are often cited as major impediments to completing bioassessments in …

Local community structure is shaped by processes acting at local and landscape scales. The
relative importance of drivers operating across different spatial scales is difficult to test …

Increasing human populations engender increased changes to natural environments.
Perhaps nowhere are those changes more drastic and severe than those related to the …

Spatial prioritization can produce useful information about biodiversity values from urban
areas. However, its typical focus on (endangered) species distributions assumes a rather …

Famed microbiologist René J. Dubos (1901–1982) was an early pioneer in the
developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) construct. In the 1960s, he conducted …

Cities represent enviroment for most of Europe's human population. Spatial pattern of cities'
environmental as well as socioeconomic features affect plant biodiversity. We analysed a …

Urban agroecosystems offer an opportunity to investigate the diversity and distribution of
organisms that are conserved in city landscapes. This information is not only important for …