Increased urbanization represents a formidable challenge for wildlife. Nevertheless, a few
species appear to thrive in the evolutionarily novel environment created by cities …

The world is urbanising rapidly, and it is predicted that by 2050, 66% of the global human
population will be living in urban areas. Urbanisation is characterised by land-use changes …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Around the world the development and growth of cities and towns are having a significant
impact on local and global biodiversity. There is growing interest in the adaptation of …

Artificial light at night is a rapidly increasing phenomenon and it is presumed to have global
implications. Light at night has been associated with health problems in humans as a …

The dramatic increase in human activities all over the world has caused, on an evolutionary
time scale, a sudden rise in especially low‐pitched noise levels. Ambient noise may be …

There is an urgent need to thoroughly review and comprehend the effects of urbanization on
wildlife in order to understand both the ecological implications of increasing urbanization …

Aim The process of urbanization can lead to specialist species being replaced by generalist
species in space and time, increasing similarity among bird communities. This phenomenon …

Numerous species have adapted to the proximity of humans, and this feature is no clearer
than among species that have invaded towns and cities. The characteristics of species that …

Human‐altered environmental conditions affect many species at the global scale. An
extreme form of anthropogenic alteration is the existence and rapid increase of urban areas …