Urban areas are home to more than half the world's population, but also habitats for a wide
range of plant and animal species. While street trees in urban areas have been recognized …

Non-native trees have become dominant components of many landscapes, including urban
ecosystems, commercial forestry plantations, fruit orchards and as invasives in natural …

Highlights•Behavior drives insect herbivore performance but is understudied in urban
areas.•Urbanization can facilitate or disrupt timing and location of behaviors and life …

Vacant land, a product of population and economic decline resulting in abandonment of
infrastructure, has increased substantially in shrinking cities around the world. In Cleveland …

The ongoing wide‐scale introduction of nonnative plants across the world may negatively
influence native invertebrate fauna, due to a lack of coevolved traits related to the novel …

Biodiversity loss and vast forest diebacks due to climate change‐induced disturbances
require adapted forest management strategies that reconcile economic interests and …

Recent ecological research suggests that, in general, mixtures are more resistant to insect
herbivores and pathogens than monocultures. However, we know little about mixtures with …

This study compares caterpillar communities (Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera sawflies) in
agricultural hedgerows dominated by aggressive non-native plants (novel hedgerows) and …

Terrestrial herbs are important elements of tropical forests; however, there is a lack of
research on their diversity patterns and how they respond to different intensities of forest …

The migratory monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) of eastern North America have
undergone large-scale declines, which may be attributable to a variety of underlying causes …