Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Moving beyond the nature-based solutions discourse: introducing nature-based thinking	56
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions	40
Adapting to urban ecosystems: unravelling the foraging ecology of an opportunistic predator living in cities	31
The relationship between pollinator community and pollination services is mediated by floral abundance in urban landscapes	31
Butterfly species’ responses to urbanization: differing effects of human population density and built-up area	29
Conceptualizing social-ecological drivers of change in urban forest patches	28
Noise and tree species richness modulate the bird community inhabiting small public urban green spaces of a Neotropical city	27
Tree species diversity, volume yield, biomass and carbon sequestration in urban forests in two Nigerian cities	26
More losses than gains in ground-nesting bees over 60 years of urbanization	24
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	23
Plant-pollinator networks in Australian urban bushland remnants are not structurally equivalent to those in residential gardens	22
Planning for active management of future invasive pests affecting urban forests: the ecological and economic effects of varying Dutch elm disease management practices for street trees in Milwaukee, WI	21
Bee community response to local and landscape factors along an urban-rural gradient	21
An avian urban morphotype: how the city environment shapes great tit morphology at different life stages	20
Are cities hotspots for bees? Local and regional diversity patterns lead to different conclusions	20
Urban ecosystems and ecosystem services in megacity Dhaka: mapping and inventory analysis	19
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	19
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	18
Prevalence and risk factors of Leptospira infection in urban brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), Vienna, Austria	17
Microclimate in an urban park and its influencing factors: a case study of Tiantan Park in Beijing, China	17
Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city	17
Urbanization alters the abundance and composition of predator communities and leads to aphid outbreaks on urban trees	16
Green space networks as natural infrastructures in PERI-URBAN areas	16
Impacts of the remnant sizes, forest types, and landscape patterns of surrounding areas on woody plant diversity of urban remnant forest patches	16
Ecology with Cities	16

Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment	16
Impacts of strengthened warming by urban heat island on carbon sequestration of urban ecosystems in a subtropical city of China	16
Flight initiation distance changes across landscapes and habitats in a successful urban coloniser	15
Vegetation structure drives taxonomic diversity and functional traits of birds in urban private native forest fragments	15
Spatial literacy influences stakeholder’s recognition and mapping of peri-urban and urban ecosystem services	15
‘Urban biocultural diversity’ as a framework for human–nature interactions: reflections from a Brazilian favela	15
Influence of environmental factors on bird diversity in greenspaces in an Amazonian city	15
Diversity and structure of urban forests of Sahel cities in Niger	15
Litter decomposition and infiltration capacities in soils of different tropical urban land covers	15
‘Stray appetites’: a socio-ecological analysis of free-ranging dogs living alongside human communities in Bangalore, India	15
Analysis of cat diet across an urbanisation gradient	15
Diet, ecological role and potential ecosystem services of the fruit bat, Cynopterus brachyotis, in a tropical city	14
Understanding foraging flexibility in urban vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus pygerythrus, for the benefit of human-wildlife coexistence	14
How do heat and flood risk drive residential green infrastructure implementation in Phoenix, Arizona?	14
The contribution of urban community gardens to food availability in Emfuleni Local Municipality, Gauteng Province	14
Effect of pavement and water deficit on biomass allocation and whole-tree transpiration in two contrasting urban tree species	13
Land sharing between cultivated and wild plants: urban gardens as hotspots for plant diversity in cities	13
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	13
Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany	13
What’s in a yardscape? A case study of emergent ecosystem services and disservices within resident yardscape discourses in Minnesota	13
Reproductive patterns of solitary cavity-nesting bees responsive to both local and landscape factors	13
Investigating temporal and spatial correlates of the sharp decline of an urban exploiter bird in a large European city	13
Reap what you sow: local plant composition mediates bumblebee foraging patterns within urban garden landscapes	12
Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta, China: response to urbanizing variation	12
Living in the concrete jungle: a review and socio-ecological perspective of urban raptor habitat quality in Europe	12
Three categories of urban green areas and the effect of their different management on the communities of ants, spiders and harvestmen	12
Species-specific breeding habitat association of declining farmland birds within urban environments: conservation implications	12
Drivers of fish assemblage structures in a Neotropical urban watershed	12
Urban ecosystem services in strategic planning in Swedish municipalities	12
Herbert Sukopp – an inspiring pioneer in the field of urban ecology	12
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia	12
Habitat patch size and tree species richness shape the bird community in urban green spaces of rapidly urbanizing Himalayan foothill region of India	11
Long-term assessment of floodplain reconnection as a stream restoration approach for managing nitrogen in ground and surface waters	11
How to plan urban green space in cold regions of China to achieve the best cooling efficiency	11
Seed banks in urban vacant lots of a Latin American megacity are easily germinable and strongly dominated by exotic flora	11
Moth assemblages within urban domestic gardens respond positively to habitat complexity, but only at a scale that extends beyond the garden boundary	11
Spatial distribution of sarcoptic mange (Sarcoptes scabiei) in urban foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Great Britain as determined by citizen science	11
Seasonal variation in habitat use, daily routines and interactions with humans by urban-dwelling gulls	11
The interaction of imperviousness and habitat heterogeneity drives bird richness patterns in south Asian cities	11
Tolerance and avoidance of urban cover in a southern California suburban raptor community over five decades	11
Greenspace sites conserve taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in an urbanized landscape in the Brazilian Cerrado	11
Effect of urbanization on the dynamics of ecosystem services: An analysis for decision making in Kolkata urban agglomeration	10
Identification of landscape multifunctionality along urban-rural gradient of coastal cities in South Korea	10
Grasslands provide diverse opportunities for bird species along an urban-rural gradient	10
Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City	10
Coproduction of place and knowledge for ecology with the city	10
Interactive effects of urbanization and year on invasive and native ant diversity of sacred groves of South India	10
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	10
The diet of coyotes and red foxes in Southern New York	10
Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams	9

Effect of urbanization intensity on nest-site selection by Eurasian Magpies (Pica pica)	9
The effect of artificial light at night on the biomass of caterpillars feeding in urban tree canopies	9
Anthropogenic factors influence the occupancy of an invasive carnivore in a suburban preserve system	9
An improved method for the identification and setting of ecological corridors in urbanized areas	9
Urban vegetation cover correlates with environmental variables in a desert city: insights of mitigation measures to climate change	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
Crown width models for woody plant species growing in urban areas of the U.S.	9
The Joy of birds: the effect of rating for joy or counting garden bird species on wellbeing, anxiety, and nature connection	9
Effects of habitat fragment size and isolation on the density and genetics of urban red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)	9
Carbon stock and woody species diversity patterns in church forests along church age gradient in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	9
What Happens on Islands, doesn’t Stay on Islands: Patterns of Synchronicity in Mosquito Nuisance and Host-Seeking Activity between a Mangrove Island and Adjacent Coastal Development	9
Pollinator emerging from extensive green roofs: wild bees (Hymenoptera, Antophila) and hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Geneva (Switzerland)	9
Shading enhances plant species richness and diversity on an extensive green roof	9
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability	9
Vegetated roofs in boreal climate support mobile open habitat arthropods, with differentiation between meadow and succulent roofs	9
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	9
Raining feral cats and dogs? Implications for the conservation of medium-sized wild mammals in an urban protected area	8
Urban tree growth models for two nearby cities show notable differences	8
Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities	8
Floristic diversity and correlates of naturalization of alien flora in urban green spaces of Srinagar city	8
The role of woodpeckers (family: Picidae) as ecosystem engineers in urban parks: a case study in the city of Madrid (Spain)	8
Ecological risk resonance of urbanization and its effect on geohazard disaster: the case of Freetown, Sierra Leone	8
Woodland fragments in urban landscapes are important bat areas: an example of the endangered Bechstein’s bat Myotis bechsteinii	8
The effect of artificial light on bat richness and nocturnal soundscapes along an urbanization gradient in an arid landscape of central Peru	8
Investigating potential hydrological ecosystem services in urban gardens through soil amendment experiments and hydrologic models	8
Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: impacts on riparian groundwater quality	8
Population estimates of non-native rose-ringed parakeets Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) in the Durban Metropole, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	8
Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity	8
Vacant lot soil degradation and mowing frequency shape communities of belowground invertebrates and urban spontaneous vegetation	8
Urban colonies are more resistant to a trace metal than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	8
Greenhouse gases and green roofs: carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in relation to substrate characteristics	8
Urbanization does not affect green space bird species richness in a mid-sized city	8
Carrion increases pollination service across an urban gradient	7
Anthropogenic noise and atmospheric absorption of sound induce amplitude shifts in the songs of Southern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon musculus)	7
Plant diversity increases in an urban wildland after four decades of unaided vegetation development in a post-industrial site	7
Spatial video remote sensing for urban vegetation mapping using vegetation indices	7
The University of West Florida campus ecosystem study: the college/university campus as a unit for study of the ecology of longleaf pine	7
Phase II MS4 challenges: moving toward effective stormwater management for small municipalities	7
Wetland plant community variation across replicate urban to rural gradients: non-native species as both drivers and passengers in systems impacted by anthropogenic land-use	7
Influence of urbanization on the avian species-area relationship: insights from the breeding birds of Rome	7
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	7
Spatial and temporal variation of potential resource availability provided by street trees in southeastern Brazil	7
Introduced and native plant species composition of vacant unmanaged green roofs in New York City	7
Exposure to urban heavy metal contamination diminishes bumble bee colony growth	7
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	7
Urban bumble bees are unaffected by the proportion of intensely developed land within urban environments of the industrial Midwestern USA	7
Expanding catchment-scale hydrologic restoration in suburban watersheds via stream mitigation crediting—A Northern Kentucky (USA) case study	7
Investigating and predicting Land Surface Temperature (LST) based on remotely sensed data during 1987–2030 (A case study of Reykjavik city, Iceland)	6
Public perception of urban wildlife during a COVID-19 stay-at-home quarantine order in Chicago	6
Multiscale drivers of amphibian community occupancy in urban ponds	6
The resilient frugivorous fauna of an urban forest fragment and its potential role in vegetation enrichment	6
Living in a tropical concrete jungle: diversity and abundance variation in a parrot assemblage (Aves, Psittacidae) of a major Amazonian city	6
Urban gradients alter the diversity, specific composition and guild distribution in tropical butterfly communities	6
Looking beyond leaves: variation in nutrient leaching potential of seasonal litterfall among different species within an urban forest	6
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	6
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	6
Cues to care: future directions for ecological landscapes	6
Landscape Context Influences the Abundance and Richness of Native Lady Beetles Occupying Urban Vacant Land	6
Population increase and synurbization of the yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis in some wooded areas of Warsaw agglomeration, Poland, in the years 1983–2018	6
Designing and managing biodiverse streetscapes: key lessons from the City of Melbourne	6
The phenology of the endangered Nogal (Juglans neotropica Diels) in Bogota and its conservation implications in the urban forest	6
Noise attenuation varies by interactions of land cover and season in an urban/peri-urban landscape	6
Prioritization and thresholds for managing biological invasions in urban ecosystems	6
Study on the ecosystem services of urban forests: implications for climate change mitigation in the case of Adama City of Oromiya Regional Sate, Ethiopia	6
A spatial and temporal assessment of human-snake encounters in urban and peri-urban areas of Windhoek, Namibia	6
More than noise: light, moon phase, and singing behavior in a passerine	6
Response of plant diversity of urban remnant mountains to surrounding urban spatial morphology: a case study in Guiyang of Guizhou Province, China	6
Distribution and diet of recovering Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) along the natural-to-urban habitat gradient (river Segura, SE Spain)	6
Effects of urbanisation and landscape heterogeneity mediated by feeding guild and body size in a community of coprophilous beetles	6
Vegetation management and benthic macroinvertebrate communities in urban stormwater ponds: implications for regional biodiversity	6
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	6
Siblicide in the city: the urban heat island accelerates sibling cannibalism in the black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus)	6
Street-level green spaces support a key urban population of the threatened Hispaniolan parakeet Psittacara chloropterus	6
Spread of the invasive Javan myna along an urban–suburban gradient in Peninsular Malaysia	5
No overall effect of urbanization on nest-dwelling arthropods of great tits (Parus major).	5
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)	5
Chicago’s fish assemblage over ~30 years – more fish and more native species	5
Who is abuzz about bees? Explaining residents’ attitudes in Phoenix, Arizona	5
Bright lights, big city: an experimental assessment of short-term behavioral and performance effects of artificial light at night on Anolis lizards	5
Modeling the effectiveness of urban agriculture education courses	5

Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	5
Demographic drivers of Norway rat populations from urban slums in Brazil	5
An unexpected presence in urban environment: factors governing occurrence of the vulnerable European turtle-dove (Streptopelia turtur) in the city of Rabat, Morocco	5
Planktonic algae abundance and diversity are similar in urban stormwater ponds of different geographic locations and natural shallow lakes	5
The relationship between landscape features and domestic species on the occupancy of native mammals in urban forests	5
The impact of different tree planting strategies on ecosystem services and disservices in the piazzas of a northern Italian city	5
Potential habitat and carrying capacity of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes in an urban environment: implications for conservation and recovery	5
A dead letter? Urban conservation, management, and planning strategies from the Mexican urban bird literature	5
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards	5
Soil chemical properties in forest patches across multiple spatiotemporal scales in mid-Atlantic U.S. metropolitan areas	5
Urbanization affects the richness of invasive alien trees but has limited influence on species composition	5
Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services	5
Are vascular epiphytes in urban green areas subject to the homogenization of biodiversity? A case study in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	5
Shrinking into the big city: influence of genetic and environmental factors on urban dragon lizard morphology and performance capacity	5
Comparison of the mustard oil and electrical methods for sampling earthworm communities in rural and urban soils	5
Develop a public response model of soundscape for urban landscape garden parks	5
The queen of the island: On the density and distribution of the Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) in Cozumel	4
High species turnover shapes anuran community composition in ponds along an urban-rural gradient	4
Medium and large mammal conservation in the City of Cape Town: factors influencing species richness in urban nature reserves	4
Effect of replacing surface with underground rubbish containers on urban House Sparrows Passer domesticus	4
Response of urban tree DBH to fast urbanization: Case of coastal Zhanjiang in south China	4
Aspects of the ecology and behaviour of a potential urban exploiter, the southern tree agama, Acanthocercus atricollis	4
Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study	4
Floral richness and seasonality influences bee and non-bee flower interactions in urban community gardens	4
Effects of urban infrastructure on aquatic invertebrate diversity	4
Comparisons of flux-based stemflow enrichment ratios for two Quercus spp. within the megalopolis of the eastern USA	4
Wooded areas promote species richness in urban parks	4
Venerable trees of tropical Chinese Wuzhishan city: Distribution patterns and drivers	4
Using the dendro-climatological signal of urban trees as a measure of urbanization and urban heat island	4
Engaging students in redesigning a local urban space to improve ecosystem services	4
Wastewater treatment plant effluent inputs influence the temporal variability of nutrient uptake in an intermittent stream	4
Modeling the spatial distribution of multiple ecosystem services in Ilam dam watershed, Western Iran: identification of areas for spatial planning	4
Interconnected ecological network design using lcp algorithm and cohesion index in urban scale	4
Insect “Bee&Bees” and pollinator penthouses: teaching students about pollinators and their services in an urban environment	4
A sustainable urban regeneration project to protect biodiversity	4
Predicting spatial patterns of bird richness in an urban landscape in Himalayan foothills, India	4
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	4
Forest structure and anthropogenic disturbances regulate plant invasion in urban forests	4
Stream restoration milestones: monitoring scales determine successes and failures	4
Cultivar blends: A strategy for creating more resilient warm season turfgrass lawns	4
An unexpected backyard hunter: breeding Barred Owls exhibit plasticity in habitat selection along a development gradient	4
Are invasive House Sparrows a nuisance for native avifauna when scarce?	4
Researchers working with city administrations: Reflecting on transdisciplinary collaboration under conditions of shared goals but different constraints	4
To the rescue—Evaluating the social-ecological patterns for bird intakes	4
Assessment of dispersal and population structure of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) in a seaport setting	4
Are stormwater detention ponds protecting urban aquatic ecosystems? a case study using depressional wetlands	4
Can road stormwater ponds be successfully exploited by the European green frog (Pelophylax sp.)?	4
Floristic changes of vascular flora in the city of Rome through grid-cell census over 23 years	4
Urban space awakening – identification and potential uses of urban pockets	4
Patterns in macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness and community assembly among urban wetlands in Cape Town, South Africa: implications for wetland management	4
A multi-scale, multi-species approach highlights the importance of urban greenspace and pond design for amphibian communities	3
Temporal persistence of taxonomic and functional composition in bird communities of urban areas: an evaluation after a 6-year gap in data collection	3
Urban greening dynamics in a Brazil Central city as a subsidy for public policies	3
Tolerant and avoiders in an urban landscape: anuran species richness and functional groups responses in the Yungas’ forest of NW Argentina	3
Spring flow lost: a historical and contemporary perspective of an urban fish community	3
Tree insect pests and pathogens: a global systematic review of their impacts in urban areas	3
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs	3
Valuation of ecosystem services of a nascent urban park in east Los Angeles, California	3
Correction to: The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	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
The University of West Florida Campus Ecosystem Study: age-diameter and growth relationships of longleaf pine using hurricane-induced windthrows	3
Dietary flexibility of Wood Storks in response to human-induced rapid environmental change	3
Patterns of white-tailed deer movements in suburban Maryland: implications for zoonotic disease mitigation	3
The influence of urbanization on morphological traits in the Balsas Basin Whiptail lizard (Aspidoscelis costatus costatus)	3
Behavioral responses of rural and urban greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula) to sound disturbance	3
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	3
Green space in an extremely exposed part of the city center “Aorta of Warsaw” - Case study of the urban lawn	3
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	3
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	3
Hatchery technology restores the spawning ground of phytophilic fish in the urban river of Yangtze Estuary, China	3
Conservation monitoring of a polluted urban river: an occupancy modeling study of birds in the Yamuna of Delhi	3
Responses of photosynthesis and long-term water use efficiency to ambient air pollution in urban roadside trees	3
Non-native plant species integrate well into plant-pollinator networks in a diverse man-made flowering plant community	3
Drivers of predation by pet cats: environment overcomes predator’s intrinsic characteristics	3
The effects of water chemistry and lock-mediated connectivity on macroinvertebrate diversity and community structure in a canal in northern England	3
Urbanisation differently affects decomposition rates of recalcitrant woody material and labile leaf litter	3
Urban renewable energy and ecosystems: integrating vegetation with ground-mounted solar arrays increases arthropod abundance of key functional groups	3
Exploring the ability of urban householders to correctly identify nocturnal mammals	3
Tree canopy macrostructure controls heating of asphalt pavement in a moist-temperate urban forest	3
Home range and use of residential gardens by yellow mongoose Cynictis penicillata in an urban environment	3
Classes of protection in urban forest fragments are effectiveless in structuring butterfly assemblages: landscape and forest structure are far better predictors	2
Parrots and the city: modeling potential corridors in an urban environment	2
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	2
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	2
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	2
Dog demography and husbandry practices facilitate dog-wildlife conflict in a suburban-forest interface	2
Passive recovery of an urban forest in the Pacific Northwest after removal of invasive plants	2
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	2
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	2
Seasonal activity patterns of sympatric eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in a Midwestern metropolitan region	2
Temporal variation in ant community assemblages along a rural–urban gradient in the Yaoundé metropolis, Cameroon	2
Urban biotope classification incorporates urban forest and green infrastructure for improved environmental land-use planning in Mexico City	2
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	2
Feeding habits of Anolis sagrei, an introduced species, in urban ecosystems of Guayas Province	2
Diversity of greenspace design and management impacts pollinator communities in a densely urbanized landscape: the city of Paris, France	2