Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	51
Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba	45
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	42
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	41
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	39
Urban trees as biodiversity scaffolds: patterns and drivers of epiphyte diversity in a tropical city	38
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	38
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	34
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	33
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	32
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	32
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	28
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	27
Wildlife recovery during a COVID-19 closure in a Semi-Urban landscape	24
An assessment of the condition of flowing waters in predominantly urban areas of the conterminous U.S. and its relationship to measures of environmental justice	24
Monument protection as a limiting factor for large scale vertical greening system implementation to counteract indoor heat stress – a GIS-based analysis for Berlin, Germany	22
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	20
Little things in the cities: green spaces management shapes species centrality in ant-diaspore network in a vast Tropical City	19
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	19
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	19
Complex interactions between local habitat features, landscape factors and seasonality shape soil microarthropod communities in urban green areas	19
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	17
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats	17
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	17
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data	17

Functional traits mediate pollinator community responses to urban development in Central Arkansas	17
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	17
Small but connected: assessing the contribution of civic-led hedgerow planting on landscape connectivity in periurban Paris	17
How green infrastructure change shapes regulating ecosystem services in urban landscapes? Trade-offs between urban cooling and stormwater retention in Taipei	16
A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	16
Supplementary urban green infrastructure: community perceptions of trees and their benefits	16
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	16
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	14
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments	14
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	14
Coexistence or conflict? Understanding human-macaque encounters in Delhi’s urban sanctuary	14
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	14
Drivers of compositional turnover of the non-native urban flora in the Western Cape, South Africa	14
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State	14
The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens	14
Correction to: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	14
Urban landscape heterogeneity can modulate the invasive potential of non-native species	14
Green infrastructure dynamics in the urban areas of subarctic Western Siberia	14
A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas	13
Constructing ecological corridors in response to extensive rural sprawl in a highly developed urban agglomeration	13
Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation	13
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes	13
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	13
Biotic homogenisation in urban grasslands: which bird and plant species and traits are selected in urban contexts?	13
Beyond urbanization metrics: Using graphical causal models to investigate mechanisms in urban ecology and evolution	13
Valuing urban wetlands for sustainable land use: recreational services and economic insights from a travel cost framework	13
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon	13
The quality inequity of the ecosystem services delivered by green spaces: evidence from 226 Urban Parks in Hangzhou, China	12
Trends in sika deer population in an urban–suburban area	12
Priorities, concerns, and potential compromises amongst urban forest stakeholders: international lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand	12
Unexplored source of urban biodiversity – preliminary studies on the underground channel of the Brzoza River (Łódź, Central Poland)	12
Segment-based analysis of ecological networks in urban river riparian zones under land use change	12
Predicting people’s motivation to engage in urban predator control	12
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river	12
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system	12
Network of interactions in a recently implemented urban pollinator garden	12
Integrated geospatial assessment of human footprint impact on regulating ecosystem services in the Himalayan urban landscape	12
Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides	11
Plant performance analysis of biofacades in a hot, arid Region of Qatar	11
Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability	11
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city	11
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas	11
Use of a public questionnaire to evaluate human-wildlife conflict and the efficacy of nonlethal wildlife deterrents: Lessons from a desert city	11
Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China	11
Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments	11
Urban yards as potential conservation space: large, diverse gardens may be valuable resource patches for butterflies	11
Where the risk is more intense: riparian forests keep the euglossine bees community most affected by anthropic disturbance in the Caatinga dry forest	11
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization	11
Bird diversity at urban stormwater ponds: Temporal variation and habitat associations	11
Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition	11

Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species	11
Numeric response of a neotropical raptor to urbanization gradient in central Argentina	10
Towards an improved understanding of the magnitude and drivers of carbon and nitrogen storage and accumulation in urban saltmarshes: a case study from New England (USA)	10
Disentangling drivers of temporal changes in urban pond macroinvertebrate diversity	10
Intra- and interspecific interactions in the Indian urban ecosystem with special reference to street cattle as the pivot	10
Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China	10
Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations	10
Resilience assessment and spatial optimization of urban ecological network based on complex network theory and PLUS model	10
Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity	10
Urban ecology and biological studies in Brazilian cities: a systematic review	10
Spatiotemporal use of urban rivers by local bat populations in a large city (Cracow, Southern Poland)	10
Intra-urban spatial heterogeneity of autumn leaf senescence: effects of land-use composition on tree phenology in Wuhan, China	10
Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions	10
Assessing urban-heating impact on street tree growth in Berlin with open inventory and environmental data	10
Projected climate-driven shifts in urban forest suitability across Brazilian biomes	9
Identifying the factors that influence raccoon (Procyon lotor) and southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) use of stormwater sewer systems	9
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city	9
Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds	9
Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation	9
Species–park networks reflect the spatial structure of urban green infrastructure	9
Bird community responses to urbanization and vegetation parameters across the city of Salzburg, Austria	9
Noise, resources, and social factors shape space use and movement patterns in a small Amazonian primate	9
Exploring plant functional diversity and ecological dynamics in urban forests: insights from Metropolitan Manila	9
Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes	9
The anthropause as a behavioral reset: persistent reduction in territorial aggression in an urban songbird	9
Limited effects of short-term nutrient enrichment or abrupt light changes on daytime periphyton nutrient uptake in urban streams	9
Assessing urban riparian degradation, using an indicator-based species approach in a West African suburban area	9
Comparative analysis of ecological corridor evolution and environmental quality in an urban small watershed: A case study of the Jiyu River, Hefei (2019–2024)	9
Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient	9
Floral species evenness is the major driver of wild bee communities in urban gardens	9
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	9
Research on the optimisation of age-friendly greenways in communities from the perspective of shadow spatial distribution	9
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	9
Impacts of vegetation management on pollination network structure and robustness in urban parks: A case study from Beijing Wenyu River Park	9
Assessing urbanization impacts on dung beetle communities: insights from a neotropical Andean city	8
Urban biodiversity and design in time of (post)pandemics: research perspectives from URBIO international network	8
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces	8
Rethinking land use in cities: the ecological role of urban golf courses in forest and air quality management	8
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	8
Mulching promotes soil health and carbon sequestration in arid urban landscapes	8
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	8
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	8
Woody plant diversity in mosque courtyards: a comparative study of pre- and post-republic periods	8
Role of ecological revetment in ecosystem recovery and microclimate regulation along the urban river in Vinh City, Vietnam	8
Patch-level floral diversity and structural complexity drive differences in bumblebee richness and composition across different urban green space types	8
The response of avian chewing lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) loads to early-1900s urbanization in the Western United States	8
Future climate impacts on carbon sequestration dynamics across urban ecosystem types in Finnish cities	8
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	8
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	8
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	8
Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents	8
Herpetofaunal diversity and habitat associations in an urban protected area: a case study from Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary, Delhi	8
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	8
The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration	8
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands	8
Enhancing urban forest connectivity: a multispecies modelling approach in Helsinki	8
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	8
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	8
Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments	8
Lizards in the megalopolis: urbanization decreases lizard sperm fertility	7
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	7
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	7
Artificial light induces nighttime signaling in a diurnal katydid	7
Drivers of woody plant phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity across an urban density gradient	7
Citizen perceptions of urban raptors: Chimango Caracara as a study case	7
Fragments of open- and closed-canopy habitat host significant fruit-feeding butterfly diversity in a large city in Southern India	7
Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection	7
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes	7
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	7
Influence of habitat structures on fish abundances and diversity: comparing mainstream and tributary communities in the urban uMsunduze Catchment, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	7
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	7
Landscape, habitat, and environmental predictors differentially influence the richness, abundance, and diversity of butterfly families in tropical urban forest fragments	7
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	7
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	7
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	7
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	7
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	7
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	7
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	7
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	7

Urban native and non-native bird species are functionally redundant in Santiago, Chile	7
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	7
Endozoochorous seed dispersal in urban ecosystems: a global review of patterns, interactions, and knowledge gaps	6
Urban heat Islands shape epiphytic communities of lichens and bryophytes	6
Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of multiple herbivore mammalian species space use in a fragmented urban landscape in India	6
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China	6
Anuran assemblage in a rapidly urbanizing City in South Asia	6
Characteristics of the urban sewer system and rat presence in Seattle	6
The influence of green roof features on their carbon and nutrient stocks	6
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	6
Seasonal variation of biochemical and morphological traits of selected tree species in polluted urban areas of Delhi City	6
Environmental and tree-specific drivers of Bet v 1 allergen in Betula pendula pollen	6
Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience	6
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	6
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities	6
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city	6
Occurrence of common mistletoe (Viscum album subsp. album) on alien tree species in the urban green areas of Wrocław (Poland)	6
The luxury effect in urban aquatic ecosystems: exploring drivers of change	6
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity	6
Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in an urban green space	6
Pollination and pest control in urban agriculture: a systematic review of the species associated with beneficial services	6
Minimizing N2O and CO2 emissions from urban lawns through sustainable management strategies	6
Exploring the subjective and objective characteristics affecting the frequency of human-nature interactions in urban green spaces: a case study from Finland	6
Comment on the paper “Citizens’ perceptions and willingness to pay for urban beekeeping: a case study in Northern Italy” by Notaro et al. (2025)	6
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity	6
Multiscale spatial patterns and behavioral variability along an urbanization gradient in a generalist raptor	6
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?	6
The effect of urbanization and behavioral factors on coyote net displacement and its implications for seed dispersal	5
Legacy effects of housing segregation on urban mammal communities in Washington, D.C., USA	5
Evaluating the driving factors of the environmental injustice caused by the spatial mismatch of ecosystem services in mega cities in China	5
Eco-cultural monitoring reveals low impact of a Dharug Dhiyina women-led Guwiyang (fire) in an urban National Park, Australia	5
Assessment of woody plant diversity in urban parks of Gaziantep, Türkiye, using biodiversity indices	5
Invertebrate diversity in peri-urban community gardens and possible mechanisms of community assemblage	5
Understanding predictors of mistletoe infection across an urban university campus in Southwest China	5
Crop-specialized pollinator drives bee and floral community response to urbanization on small squash farms	5
Evaluation of climate justice in open green spaces based on landscape metrics: the case of Istanbul	5
Enhancing urban lawn diversity: investigating survival, growth, flowering, and pollinator attractiveness of groundcover plant species	5
Urbanization-driven changes in litter decomposition in forest patches revealed by the teabag method	5
Alien Euphorbia hyssopifolia as a threat in arid peri-urban and urban ecosystems	5
New native species for extensive green roofs to enrich urban ecosystem services in semiarid regions	5
Urban greening and heat mitigation in arid cities: environmental impacts of FIFA World Cup stadium developments in Qatar	5
Room for rent: how habitat and materials influence the use of insect nesting boxes	5
Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	5
High modularity of plant-pollinator interactions in an urban garden is driven by phenological continuity and flower morphology	5
Sector expert and public perceptions of greening of grey infrastructure: a case study in Britain’s Ocean City	5
Crypsis in a polymorphic mammal along an urbanization gradient	5
Ecoacoustic methods application for urban biodiversity monitoring	5
Effect of urbanisation on feces deposited across natural urban forest fragments	5
Reassessing the role of herbivores on urban coral reefs: A case study from a heavily impacted reef near Cartagena Bay, Colombia	5
Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	5
Foxes at your front door? Habitat selection and home range estimation of suburban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)	5
The effect of root shaving and biostimulant application on the transplant success of six common Australian urban tree species	5
The effect of urbanization on dislodged abundance of two flea species in arboreal squirrels	5
Author Correction: Molluscs community as a keystone group for assessing the impact of urban sprawl at intertidal ecosystems	5
Fire and food: how do insectivorous small mammals respond to urban wildfires?	5
When scale matters to disentangle the effect of habitat and temperature on ground-dwelling spider communities in urban environments	5
Crossing paths in fragmented urban forest ecosystems: a study on the pressure of stray dogs and humans on the activities of wild mammals	5
Airborne Betula, poaceae, and Ambrosia Artemisiifolia pollen and allergen exposure: a comparative study of urban and rural environments	5
Management of urban green spaces to promote native and endemic flora in Puerto Ayora, Galápagos	5
Spatial ecology of crested porcupine in a metropolitan landscape	5
Examination of the presence of evolutionary response behind larger size at metamorphosis in urban toads	5
Native plant gardens support more microbial diversity and higher relative abundance of potentially beneficial taxa compared to adjacent turf grass lawns	5
Decreased functional dispersal traits of spontaneous plants in urban areas	5
Urban heat and desert wildlife: rodent body condition across a gradient of surface temperatures	5
Urbanization affects web abundance and aggregation of a funnel-weaving spider, Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Agelenidae)	5
Differences between urban and natural populations of dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion damaranum): a case of urban warfare?	5
Human recreational activity does not influence open cup avian nest survival in urban green spaces	4
Correction: Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services	4
Diversity of social wasps and recent trends in human–wasp conflicts in Seoul, South Korea: Implications for urban pest management	4
Dynamics of nest availability occurrence of Blue and Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nests in the urban area of ​​Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul	4
Designing “Tiny Forests” as a lesson for transdisciplinary urban ecology learning	4
Towards Global Biodiversity Framework Target 12: mapping urban biodiversity monitoring programmes – a case study for Berlin, Germany	4
Correction to: Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities	4
Diversity and composition of plant communities in former lawns converted into urban meadows	4
Assessing the impact of urbanization on wetland bird communities in Chilean Mediterranean coast	4
Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city	4
Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size	4
Patterns in tree squirrel co-occurrence vary with responses to local land cover in US cities	4
Multi-scale drivers of parasitoid wasp communities in urban gardens: local vegetation, landscape configuration and heterogeneity	4
Biodiversity of native climbing plant species in the Iberian Peninsula and its suitability for disturbed and human modified environments with a focus on green facades	4
Segregation, socioeconomics, and urban design produce spatial bias in community science biodiversity data: A case study in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	4
What factors are influencing peri-urban forest carbon storage in different land use types based on permanent plots from 2009–2018	4
Vegetation regulations and upkeeping influence avifauna diversity within residential developments of Mexico City	4
Urbanites’ perception of vegetation in landscape-based stormwater management elements (LSM)	4
Exploring the value of ecosystem services at health clinic gardens in a South African context	4
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites are correlated with urbanization but not body condition in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)	4
Predation risk and decision-making of grey squirrels in urban and rural forested parks	4
Genotoxic analysis of Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nestlings in an urban environment in the Central-West region of Brazil	4
Comment on the paper “Low interaction in an interdisciplinary research field: a scientometric view of 80 years of publication in urban ecology” by Marques & Collevatti (2026)	4
Modeling the spatial distribution of multiple ecosystem services in Ilam dam watershed, Western Iran: identification of areas for spatial planning	4
A review of roadside green space ecological benefits using citespace: research hotspots and future trends	4
Differences in sex ratio, tail autotomy, body size and body condition between suburban and forest populations of the cuban endemic lizard Anolis homolechis	4
Urban Lasius niger ants more readily accept low concentration sucrose solution than rural ants	4
Environmental equity and urban afforestation in the extreme northeastern Brazilian Amazon	4
Tree cavity availability and distribution across habitats in Udaipur (Rajasthan), a small Indian City: implications for urban wildlife	4