Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

CC Rega-Brodsky, MFJ Aronson, MR Piana… - Urban …, 2022 - Springer
Since the 1990s, recognition of urban biodiversity research has increased steadily.
Knowledge of how ecological communities respond to urban pressures can assist in …

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 …

Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities

MS Fenoglio, A Calviño, E González… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite
that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …

[HTML][HTML] Wildness and habitat quality drive spatial patterns of urban biodiversity

C Aznarez, JC Svenning, G Taveira, F Baró… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) are key for biodiversity conservation. Many studies
focus on UGBS benefits for well-being, but how UGBS ecological and quality influence …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience in the built environment: Key characteristics for solutions to multiple crises

R Castaño-Rosa, S Pelsmakers, H Järventausta… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decade, our built environment has been exposed to a significant and wide range
of crises, from primary (eg, pandemic, climate change-induced hazards) to secondary crises …

Cities as sanctuaries

CA Lepczyk, MFJ Aronson… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cities have classically been viewed as biologically impoverished, homogenized, and
simplified systems that harbor low value for biodiversity. However, recent work has …

Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape

M Alberti, T Wang - Ecology letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Explicit characterisation of the complexity of urban landscapes is critical for understanding
patterns of biodiversity and for detecting the underlying social and ecological processes that …

How does urbanisation affect the evolution of territorial space composite function?

Q Hu, W Shen, Z Zhang - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Under the background of drastic global changes and the widespread urbanisation process,
the problems of urban-rural imbalance, food security and ecosystem degradation arising …

[HTML][HTML] Urban residents value multi-functional urban greenspaces

M Roberts, K Glenk, A McVittie - Urban forestry & urban greening, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban greenspaces are multifunctional spaces, providing services to people and
biodiversity. With space in urban areas being limited creation and maintenance of urban …

Avian diversity and function across the world's most populous cities

J Richardson, AC Lees, ET Miller… - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the composition of urban wildlife communities is crucial to promote
biodiversity, ecosystem function and links between nature and people. Using crowdsourced …