Urban growth is a major factor of global environmental change and has important impacts
on biodiversity, such as changes in species composition and biotic homogenization. Most …

Urbanization can affect interspecific interactions such as predator-prey relationships.
Several hypotheses have been postulated to predict how predation on bird nests changes …

Counts of birds can inform studies with different goals, such as estimating population size,
monitoring populations over time and in response to environmental change, and estimating …

The environmental factors affecting the spatial dynamics of bird communities in urban parks
are well understood, but much less attention has been paid to the seasonal dynamics of bird …

Maintaining urban greenspace is important for stimulating diverse human-nature
interactions. Yet, which greenspace to prioritize for conservation under threat of urban …

Urban green space (UGS), as a form of green infrastructure, has been given increasing
attention in urban planning and its policies. The quality of a UGS is fundamental for the …

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is an important habitat for birds and acts a leading role in
bird diversity conservation. However, the response of bird diversity to UGIs characteristics …

The Neotropical region has been subjected to massive urbanization, which poses high risks
for some global biodiversity hotspots and losses of ecosystem functions and services. In this …

Harvest of orchid tubers for salep production is widespread in southwestern Asia and the
Balkans and constitutes a major conservation risk for wild orchid populations. Synanthropic …

Latin American cityscapes are growing fast, posing risks to many bird communities and
ecosystem services (eg seed dispersal and arthropod population control), but few studies …