Supporting bees in cities: how bees are influenced by local and landscape features

AC Ayers, SM Rehan - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cities are complex ecosystems that, while generally contributing to an
overall reduction in biodiversity, can support surprisingly unique communities of organisms …

The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis

H Liang, YD He, P Theodorou, CF Yang - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is increasing worldwide, with major impacts on biodiversity, species
interactions and ecosystem functioning. Pollination is an ecosystem function vital for …

Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

DL Wagner, EM Grames, ML Forister… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to
7.8 billion. Much of Earth's arable lands are already in agriculture (1), millions of acres of …

Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West

ML Forister, CA Halsch, CC Nice, JA Fordyce, TE Dilts… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Uncertainty remains regarding the role of anthropogenic climate change in declining insect
populations, partly because our understanding of biotic response to climate is often …

Further evidence for a global decline of the entomofauna

F Sánchez‐Bayo, KAG Wyckhuys - Austral Entomology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Anthropocene is characterised by pervasive human‐inflicted impacts on a broad range
of biota, including insects. In 2019, we reviewed scientific literature quantifying the …

A revised Red List of British butterflies

R Fox, EB Dennis, AF Brown… - Insect Conservation and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Regular reassessment of extinction risk is critical to prioritise conservation action during the
current period of rapid, anthropogenic biodiversity change. Butterflies are a flagship group …

Graph-based block-level urban change detection using Sentinel-2 time series

N Wang, W Li, R Tao, Q Du - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Remote sensing technology has been frequently used to obtain information on changes in
urban land cover because of its vast spatial coverage and timeliness of observation. Block …

Environmental DNA captures native and non-native fish community variations across the lentic and lotic systems of a megacity

S Zhang, Y Zheng, A Zhan, C Dong, J Zhao, M Yao - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Globally, urbanization poses a major threat to terrestrial biodiversity, yet its impact on fish
diversity is poorly understood, mainly because of surveying difficulties. In this study …

Fungal communities decline with urbanization—more in air than in soil

N Abrego, B Crosier, P Somervuo, N Ivanova… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Increasing evidence suggests that degradation of biodiversity in human populated areas is a
threat for the ecosystem processes that are relevant for human well-being. Fungi are a …

Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment

DJ Kotze, EC Lowe, JS MacIvor, A Ossola, BA Norton… - Urban …, 2022 - Springer
Invertebrates comprise the most diversified animal group on Earth. Due to their long
evolutionary history and small size, invertebrates occupy a remarkable range of ecological …