Moths and other insects are attracted by artificial light sources. This flight-to-light behaviour
disrupts their general activity focused on finding resources, such as mating partners, and …

Urbanization alters natural habitats, restructures biotic communities and serves as a filter for
selecting species from regional species pools. However, empirical evidence of the specific …

Continued and rapid development of urban environments presents many challenges to
organisms living in and around cities. Insects are among the most abundant and diverse …

Understanding how anthropogenic activities induce changes in the functional traits of
arthropod communities is critical to assessing their ecological consequences. However, we …

Introduction Urbanization has led to a recent surge of interest in urban biodiversity, and
wildlife responses to urban environments have become a hot topic in environmental …

The escalating pace of urbanization and human activities presents formidable challenges to
landuse patterns and ecological environments. Achieving a harmonious coexistence …

Cities are ubiquitous and, though a novel phenomenon by evolutionary standards, provide a
home for many species and exert particularly strong and novel selection pressures on them …

Urbanization has altered natural landscapes and serves as an environmental filter that
selects species with specific traits. Coloration is an important trait associated with biotic …

Against the background of global climate change and urbanization, the biodiversity of birds
is facing unprecedented threats. In this paper, taking the Nanjing megapolis as an example …

Cities provide opportunities for biodiversity conservation through the design of urban
greenspaces as wildlife habitat. A significant proportion of urban public land is narrow linear …