Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions	80
Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment	28
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	28
An avian urban morphotype: how the city environment shapes great tit morphology at different life stages	25
Urban ecosystems and ecosystem services in megacity Dhaka: mapping and inventory analysis	25
Plant-pollinator networks in Australian urban bushland remnants are not structurally equivalent to those in residential gardens	25
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	23
Microclimate in an urban park and its influencing factors: a case study of Tiantan Park in Beijing, China	23
Land sharing between cultivated and wild plants: urban gardens as hotspots for plant diversity in cities	23
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	22
Ecology with Cities	22
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	21
How to plan urban green space in cold regions of China to achieve the best cooling efficiency	18
An improved method for the identification and setting of ecological corridors in urbanized areas	17
Coproduction of place and knowledge for ecology with the city	17
Litter decomposition and infiltration capacities in soils of different tropical urban land covers	17
Long-term assessment of floodplain reconnection as a stream restoration approach for managing nitrogen in ground and surface waters	17
Impacts of strengthened warming by urban heat island on carbon sequestration of urban ecosystems in a subtropical city of China	17
Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities	16
‘Stray appetites’: a socio-ecological analysis of free-ranging dogs living alongside human communities in Bangalore, India	16
How do heat and flood risk drive residential green infrastructure implementation in Phoenix, Arizona?	16
Vacant lot soil degradation and mowing frequency shape communities of belowground invertebrates and urban spontaneous vegetation	16
Seasonal variation in habitat use, daily routines and interactions with humans by urban-dwelling gulls	16
Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany	15
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia	15

Exposure to urban heavy metal contamination diminishes bumble bee colony growth	15
Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta, China: response to urbanizing variation	15
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	15
Habitat patch size and tree species richness shape the bird community in urban green spaces of rapidly urbanizing Himalayan foothill region of India	15
Living in the concrete jungle: a review and socio-ecological perspective of urban raptor habitat quality in Europe	15
Investigating potential hydrological ecosystem services in urban gardens through soil amendment experiments and hydrologic models	14
Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City	14
Noise attenuation varies by interactions of land cover and season in an urban/peri-urban landscape	14
Reproductive patterns of solitary cavity-nesting bees responsive to both local and landscape factors	14
Grasslands provide diverse opportunities for bird species along an urban-rural gradient	14
Urban ecosystem services in strategic planning in Swedish municipalities	13
The Joy of birds: the effect of rating for joy or counting garden bird species on wellbeing, anxiety, and nature connection	13
Effect of urbanization on the dynamics of ecosystem services: An analysis for decision making in Kolkata urban agglomeration	13
Species-specific breeding habitat association of declining farmland birds within urban environments: conservation implications	13
Space–time analysis of the earth's surface temperature, surface urban heat island and urban hotspot: relationships with variation of the thermal field in Andalusia (Spain)	12
The role of woodpeckers (family: Picidae) as ecosystem engineers in urban parks: a case study in the city of Madrid (Spain)	11
Urbanization does not affect green space bird species richness in a mid-sized city	11
Influence of urbanization on the avian species-area relationship: insights from the breeding birds of Rome	11
Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams	11
Greenspace sites conserve taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in an urbanized landscape in the Brazilian Cerrado	11
Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: impacts on riparian groundwater quality	11
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	11
Investigating and predicting Land Surface Temperature (LST) based on remotely sensed data during 1987–2030 (A case study of Reykjavik city, Iceland)	11
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability	10
Looking beyond leaves: variation in nutrient leaching potential of seasonal litterfall among different species within an urban forest	10
Urban open spaces from a dispersal perspective: lessons from an individual-based model approach to assess the effects of landscape patterns on the viability of wildlife populations	10
Floristic changes of vascular flora in the city of Rome through grid-cell census over 23 years	10
Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity	10
Vegetation management and benthic macroinvertebrate communities in urban stormwater ponds: implications for regional biodiversity	10
Distribution and diet of recovering Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) along the natural-to-urban habitat gradient (river Segura, SE Spain)	9
Caterpillar survival in the city: attack rates on model lepidopteran larvae along an urban-rural gradient show no increase in predation with increasing urban intensity	9
Floristic diversity and correlates of naturalization of alien flora in urban green spaces of Srinagar city	9
Estimates of energy partitioning, evapotranspiration, and net ecosystem exchange of CO2 for an urban lawn and a tallgrass prairie in the Denver metropolitan area under contrasting conditions	9
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	9
Siblicide in the city: the urban heat island accelerates sibling cannibalism in the black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus)	9
Forest structure and anthropogenic disturbances regulate plant invasion in urban forests	8
High species turnover shapes anuran community composition in ponds along an urban-rural gradient	8
Public perception of urban wildlife during a COVID-19 stay-at-home quarantine order in Chicago	8
The effect of artificial light on bat richness and nocturnal soundscapes along an urbanization gradient in an arid landscape of central Peru	8
Living in a tropical concrete jungle: diversity and abundance variation in a parrot assemblage (Aves, Psittacidae) of a major Amazonian city	8
Study on the ecosystem services of urban forests: implications for climate change mitigation in the case of Adama City of Oromiya Regional Sate, Ethiopia	8
An unexpected presence in urban environment: factors governing occurrence of the vulnerable European turtle-dove (Streptopelia turtur) in the city of Rabat, Morocco	8
More than noise: light, moon phase, and singing behavior in a passerine	8
Urban refugia sheltering biodiversity across world cities	8
Floral richness and seasonality influences bee and non-bee flower interactions in urban community gardens	8
Greenhouse gases and green roofs: carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in relation to substrate characteristics	8
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	8
The University of West Florida campus ecosystem study: the college/university campus as a unit for study of the ecology of longleaf pine	8
Expanding catchment-scale hydrologic restoration in suburban watersheds via stream mitigation crediting—A Northern Kentucky (USA) case study	8
Phase II MS4 challenges: moving toward effective stormwater management for small municipalities	8

Designing and managing biodiverse streetscapes: key lessons from the City of Melbourne	8
Anthropogenic noise and atmospheric absorption of sound induce amplitude shifts in the songs of Southern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon musculus)	8
Patterns in macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness and community assembly among urban wetlands in Cape Town, South Africa: implications for wetland management	7
Multiscale drivers of amphibian community occupancy in urban ponds	7
Response of plant diversity of urban remnant mountains to surrounding urban spatial morphology: a case study in Guiyang of Guizhou Province, China	7
Green space in an extremely exposed part of the city center “Aorta of Warsaw” - Case study of the urban lawn	7
Effect of replacing surface with underground rubbish containers on urban House Sparrows Passer domesticus	7
Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services	7
Wastewater treatment plant effluent inputs influence the temporal variability of nutrient uptake in an intermittent stream	7
The phenology of the endangered Nogal (Juglans neotropica Diels) in Bogota and its conservation implications in the urban forest	7
Prioritization and thresholds for managing biological invasions in urban ecosystems	7
Street-level green spaces support a key urban population of the threatened Hispaniolan parakeet Psittacara chloropterus	7
32 years of essential management to retain value of an urban dragonfly awareness pond	7
Urbanization affects the richness of invasive alien trees but has limited influence on species composition	7
Response of urban tree DBH to fast urbanization: Case of coastal Zhanjiang in south China	7
The resilient frugivorous fauna of an urban forest fragment and its potential role in vegetation enrichment	7
The abundance of yellow-legged gulls Larus michahellis breeding in the historic centre of Venice, Italy and the initial effects of the new waste collection policy on the population	7
Foxes at your front door? Habitat selection and home range estimation of suburban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)	6
A sustainable urban regeneration project to protect biodiversity	6
Urban space awakening – identification and potential uses of urban pockets	6
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	6
Stream restoration milestones: monitoring scales determine successes and failures	6
Using the dendro-climatological signal of urban trees as a measure of urbanization and urban heat island	6
The relationship between landscape features and domestic species on the occupancy of native mammals in urban forests	6
Researchers working with city administrations: Reflecting on transdisciplinary collaboration under conditions of shared goals but different constraints	6
Urbanisation differently affects decomposition rates of recalcitrant woody material and labile leaf litter	6
Modeling the spatial distribution of multiple ecosystem services in Ilam dam watershed, Western Iran: identification of areas for spatial planning	6
Aspects of the ecology and behaviour of a potential urban exploiter, the southern tree agama, Acanthocercus atricollis	6
No overall effect of urbanization on nest-dwelling arthropods of great tits (Parus major).	6
Venerable trees of tropical Chinese Wuzhishan city: Distribution patterns and drivers	6
The impact of different tree planting strategies on ecosystem services and disservices in the piazzas of a northern Italian city	6
Potential habitat and carrying capacity of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes in an urban environment: implications for conservation and recovery	6
Green infrastructure in cities for the achievement of the un sustainable development goals: a systematic review	6
Spread of the invasive Javan myna along an urban–suburban gradient in Peninsular Malaysia	6
Demographic drivers of Norway rat populations from urban slums in Brazil	6
Urban structure and environment impact plant species richness and floristic composition in a Central European city	6
The queen of the island: On the density and distribution of the Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) in Cozumel	5
Patterns of white-tailed deer movements in suburban Maryland: implications for zoonotic disease mitigation	5
Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study	5
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city	5
Local-scale habitat configuration makes a niche for wildlife encroaching into an urban landscape: grubbing sites of wild boar Sus scrofa in a city matrix	5
Develop a public response model of soundscape for urban landscape garden parks	5
Diversity of greenspace design and management impacts pollinator communities in a densely urbanized landscape: the city of Paris, France	5
Soil chemical properties in forest patches across multiple spatiotemporal scales in mid-Atlantic U.S. metropolitan areas	5
Snake life history traits and their association with urban habitat use in a tropical city	5
Assessment of dispersal and population structure of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) in a seaport setting	5
Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	5
An investigation into residents' willingness to pay for vertical greening in China	5
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	5
Effects of urban land-use types on avifauna assemblage in a rapidly developing urban settlement in Ghana	5
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards	5
Breeding performance is explained for coloniality and phenology but not for urbanization in a generalist raptor bird	5
Cultivar blends: A strategy for creating more resilient warm season turfgrass lawns	5
Topsoil Carbon Stocks in Urban Greenspaces of The Hague, the Netherlands	5
Bright lights, big city: an experimental assessment of short-term behavioral and performance effects of artificial light at night on Anolis lizards	5
Can road stormwater ponds be successfully exploited by the European green frog (Pelophylax sp.)?	5
Tree insect pests and pathogens: a global systematic review of their impacts in urban areas	5
Wooded areas promote species richness in urban parks	5
Tree canopy macrostructure controls heating of asphalt pavement in a moist-temperate urban forest	5
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	4
Urban growth and loss of green spaces in the metropolitan areas of São Paulo and Mexico City: effects of land-cover changes on climate and water flow regulation	4
The effects of landscape and yard features on mammal diversity in residential yards within Northwest Arkansas, USA	4
Assessing the impact of free-ranging cats (Felis silvestris catus) and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) on wildlife in a natural urban reserve in Mexico City	4
Temporal persistence of taxonomic and functional composition in bird communities of urban areas: an evaluation after a 6-year gap in data collection	4
Bird population changes in urban green spaces explained by regional population trends	4
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization	4
Behavioral responses of rural and urban greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula) to sound disturbance	4
Valuation of ecosystem services of a nascent urban park in east Los Angeles, California	4
The advantage of living in the city: effects of urbanization on body size and mass of native and alien squirrels	4
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	4
To the rescue—Evaluating the social-ecological patterns for bird intakes	4
Morphological differences along a chronological gradient of urbanisation in an endemic insectivorous bird of New Zealand	4
Diversity of diurnal raptors in a suburban area of a city in southern Chile	4
Urban greening dynamics in a Brazil Central city as a subsidy for public policies	4
Urban biodiversity suitability index: decoding the relationships between cities and birds	4
Urbanization and a green corridor influence reproductive success and pollinators of common milkweed	4
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	4
Insect “Bee&Bees” and pollinator penthouses: teaching students about pollinators and their services in an urban environment	4
Sedum as host plants for caterpillars? Introducing gut content metabarcoding to green roof research	4
Effect of urbanization on individual condition of a threatened seabird: the Olrog’s Gull Larus atlanticus	4

Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	4
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	4
Uncovering the potential for exurban properties and small working farms in the Midwestern United States to provide food and refuge for pollinators	4
Is urban stream restoration really a wicked problem?	4
The urban myth: A lack of agreement between definitions of urban environments used in wildlife health research may contribute to inconsistent epidemiological findings	4
Engaging students in redesigning a local urban space to improve ecosystem services	4
Non-native plant species integrate well into plant-pollinator networks in a diverse man-made flowering plant community	4
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas	4
Are stormwater detention ponds protecting urban aquatic ecosystems? a case study using depressional wetlands	4
Between vision and action: the predicted effects of co-designed green infrastructure solutions on environmental burdens	4
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	4
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	4
Mass-flowering native species are key in the structure of an urban plant-hummingbird network	4
Can you nest where you roost? Waterbirds use different sites but similar cues to locate roosting and breeding sites in a small Indian city	3
The ecosystem services supplied by urban green infrastructure depend on their naturalness, functionality and imperviousness	3
Sustainable functional roles of ecologically sensitive areas in the Greater Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana: exploring local perceptions and attitudes from a socio-economic purview	3
Predictors of tree cover in residential open space: a multi-scale analysis of suburban Philadelphia	3
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	3
The importance of urban areas in supporting vulnerable and endangered mammals	3
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city	3
Exploring the ability of urban householders to correctly identify nocturnal mammals	3
Restoring geomorphic integrity in urban streams via mechanistically-based storm water management: minimizing excess sediment transport capacity	3
Seasonal activity patterns of sympatric eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in a Midwestern metropolitan region	3
Ecological performance evaluation of urban agriculture in Beijing based on temperature and fractional vegetation cover	3
Differences in sex ratio, tail autotomy, body size and body condition between suburban and forest populations of the cuban endemic lizard Anolis homolechis	3
Soil CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes in open lawns, treed lawns and urban woodlands in Angers, France	3
Correlation does not imply causation: decline of house sparrow overshadowed by electromagnetic radiation	3
Spatial distribution and influencing factors of urban soil organic carbon stocks in Xi'an City, China	3
Patterns of mistletoe infestation in neotropical urban areas	3
American Oystercatcher benefits from a heterogeneous landscape to breed in an urbanized area in southern Brazil	3
Assessing the impacts of urban beehives on wild bees using individual, community, and population-level metrics	3
Bacterial communities in peat swamps reflect changes associated with catchment urbanisation	3
Conservation monitoring of a polluted urban river: an occupancy modeling study of birds in the Yamuna of Delhi	3
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs	3
Responses of photosynthesis and long-term water use efficiency to ambient air pollution in urban roadside trees	3
Correction to: The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	3
Environmental factors associated with Baylisascaris procyonis infection from a population of raccoons in Toronto, Ontario, Canada	3
Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	3
Urban heat and desert wildlife: rodent body condition across a gradient of surface temperatures	3
Association between socioeconomic status and woody plant diversity in neighborhood parks	3
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	3
Using crushed waste bricks for urban greening with contrasting grassland mixtures: no negative effects of brick-augmented substrates varying in soil type, moisture and acid pre-treatment	3
The University of West Florida Campus Ecosystem Study: age-diameter and growth relationships of longleaf pine using hurricane-induced windthrows	3
A multi-scale, multi-species approach highlights the importance of urban greenspace and pond design for amphibian communities	3
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	3
Dietary flexibility of Wood Storks in response to human-induced rapid environmental change	3
Classes of protection in urban forest fragments are effectiveless in structuring butterfly assemblages: landscape and forest structure are far better predictors	3
A systematic review of Rat Ecology in Urban Sewer Systems	3
Characterizing the landscape compositions of urban wildlife encounters: the case of the stone marten (Martes foina), the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) in the Greater P	3
Drivers of predation by pet cats: environment overcomes predator’s intrinsic characteristics	3
Temporal variation in ant community assemblages along a rural–urban gradient in the Yaoundé metropolis, Cameroon	2
Plant–bee interactions and resource utilisation in an urban landscape	2
Differential response of migratory guilds of birds to park area and urbanization	2
Wildlife and the city. Modelling wild boar use of urban nature: Empirical contribution, methodological proposal	2
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	2
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river	2
Hurricane driven changes in vegetation structure and ecosystem services in tropical urban yards: a study case in San Juan, Puerto Rico	2
Urbanization affects web abundance and aggregation of a funnel-weaving spider, Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Agelenidae)	2
The use of geotechnologies for the identification of the urban flora in the city of Teresina, Brazil	2
The ecological role and potential impact of an alien tree highly attractive to native nectar-feeding birds in urban areas	2
Large, concealed islands in the urban sea: Scattered surrounding green space enhances the quality of grassland habitats in urban parks, Tokyo	2
Urbanization and plant diversity influence different aspects of floral phenology	2
Passive restoration of vegetation on gravel/sand bars in the city: a case study in Prague, Czech Republic	2
Higher rat abundance in greener urban areas	2
Parrots and the city: modeling potential corridors in an urban environment	2
Dog demography and husbandry practices facilitate dog-wildlife conflict in a suburban-forest interface	2
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	2
Lizard community structure and spatial resource use along a forest-savannah-urban habitat gradient in the Dahomey Gap (West Africa)	2
Tick infestation of birds across a gradient of urbanization intensity in the United States Great Plains	2
Bats as indicators of ecological resilience in a megacity	2
Azadirachta indica A. Juss. a multi-purpose tree as a leading species in carbon stocking in two Sahelian cities of Niger	2
Urban yards as potential conservation space: large, diverse gardens may be valuable resource patches for butterflies	2
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	2
Bacterial community composition and functional potential associated with a variety of urban stormwater sources	2
Urban biotope classification incorporates urban forest and green infrastructure for improved environmental land-use planning in Mexico City	2
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon	2
A methodological framework for prioritizing habitat patches in urban ecosystems based on landscape functional connectivity	2
Say what? On the transmission of acoustic signals in a Neotropical green city	2
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	2
Designing “Tiny Forests” as a lesson for transdisciplinary urban ecology learning	2
Detecting the tipping point between heat source and sink landscapes to mitigate urban heat island effects	2
A transdisciplinary multiscaled approach to engage with green infrastructure planning, restoration and use in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Native plant gardens support more microbial diversity and higher relative abundance of potentially beneficial taxa compared to adjacent turf grass lawns	2
Urbanization related changes in lepidopteran community	2
Combinations of plant species with complementary traits have the potential to maximize ecosystem services on green roofs	2
Functional urban ground-cover plants: identifying traits that promote rainwater retention and dissipation	2
Florivory on an alien tree as a potential case of biotic resistance provided by urban parrots	2
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	2
How urbanization and industrialization shape breeding bird species occurrence in coastal Mediterranean oasis system	2
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	2
Assessing the conservation status, biodiversity potentials and economic contribution of urban tree Ecosystems in Nigerian Cities	2
A mowing strategy for urban parks to support spring flowers in a mediterranean climate city in South Africa	2
Long-term trends in nitrate and chloride in streams in an exurban watershed	2
Reproductive differences between urban and forest birds across the years: importance of environmental and weather parameters	2
Biological invasions in international seaports: a case study of exotic rodents in Cotonou	2