Human migration to urban centers has resulted in diverse environmental disturbances that
affect biodiversity. Although urbanization has been highlighted as one of the main drivers of …

Urban greenspaces harbor considerable biodiversity. Such areas include spontaneously
vegetated spaces such as such as brownfields, street or railway verges and vacant lots …

This chapter is aimed at analyzing a review of the empirical literature on some important
features of urban green spaces such as the components, functions, services, community …

Recently, community ecologists are focusing on the relative importance of local
environmental factors and proxies to dispersal limitation to explain spatial variation in …

Aim Meta‐community structure is a function of both local (site‐specific) and regional
(landscape‐level) ecological factors, and the relative importance of each may be mediated …

Understanding the mechanisms that drive beta diversity (ie β‐diversity), an important aspect
of regional biodiversity, remains a priority for ecological research. β‐diversity and its …

Quantifying the relative importance of how local (environmental or niche‐based) and
regional (dispersal‐related or spatial) processes regulate the assembly of communities has …

Dispersal is one of the key mechanisms affecting the distribution of individuals, populations,
and communities in nature. Despite advances in the study of single species, it has been …

A crucial gap exists between the static nature of the United States' existing protected areas
and the dynamic impacts of 21st century stressors, such as habitat loss and fragmentation …

For many people, urban greenspaces are the only places where they encounter the natural
world. This is concerning as there is growing evidence demonstrating that human well-being …