Urban Ecosystems

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Ecosystems is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)114
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town45
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards37
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening30
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation28
An assessment of the condition of flowing waters in predominantly urban areas of the conterminous U.S. and its relationship to measures of environmental justice28
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran27
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander25
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why25
Monument protection as a limiting factor for large scale vertical greening system implementation to counteract indoor heat stress – a GIS-based analysis for Berlin, Germany23
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach22
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration22
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes21
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities20
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design20
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas20
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey19
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus19
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators19
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities19
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city19
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species18
Ecology with Cities18
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile17
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs16
Data synthesis and dynamic visualization converge into a comprehensive biotic interaction network: a case study of the urban and rural areas of Bogotá D.C.16
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird15
Confluences and land cover as agents of change: habitat change modifies the movement and assemblage stability of headwater fishes15
Azadirachta indica A. Juss. a multi-purpose tree as a leading species in carbon stocking in two Sahelian cities of Niger15
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city14
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats14
Correction to: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation14
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments14
Linking activity of common pipistrelles, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in an urbanised area with a nearby mass swarming site14
A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes13
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management12
The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens12
Insect “Bee&Bees” and pollinator penthouses: teaching students about pollinators and their services in an urban environment12
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity12
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State12
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands12
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data12
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia12
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system11
Correction to: Can road stormwater ponds be successfully exploited by the European green frog (Pelophylax sp.)?11
Long-term assessment of floodplain reconnection as a stream restoration approach for managing nitrogen in ground and surface waters11
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes11
Say what? On the transmission of acoustic signals in a Neotropical green city11
A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas10
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study10
Predicting people’s motivation to engage in urban predator control10
Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation10
Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study10
Propagation of inflowing urban stormwater pulses through reservoir embayments10
American Oystercatcher benefits from a heterogeneous landscape to breed in an urbanized area in southern Brazil10
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon10
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river10
Constructing ecological corridors in response to extensive rural sprawl in a highly developed urban agglomeration10
Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China9
Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides9
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas9
Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability9
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization9
Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments9
Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species9
Plant performance analysis of biofacades in a hot, arid Region of Qatar9
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city9
Spatiotemporal use of urban rivers by local bat populations in a large city (Cracow, Southern Poland)8
Urban yards as potential conservation space: large, diverse gardens may be valuable resource patches for butterflies8
Disentangling drivers of temporal changes in urban pond macroinvertebrate diversity8
Intra- and interspecific interactions in the Indian urban ecosystem with special reference to street cattle as the pivot8
High species turnover shapes anuran community composition in ponds along an urban-rural gradient8
Lizard community structure and spatial resource use along a forest-savannah-urban habitat gradient in the Dahomey Gap (West Africa)8
Where the risk is more intense: riparian forests keep the euglossine bees community most affected by anthropic disturbance in the Caatinga dry forest8
Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China8
Numeric response of a neotropical raptor to urbanization gradient in central Argentina8
Urban ecology and biological studies in Brazilian cities: a systematic review8
Assessing urban-heating impact on street tree growth in Berlin with open inventory and environmental data8
Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition8
Urbanization affects the richness of invasive alien trees but has limited influence on species composition8
Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity8
Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation8
Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions8
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient7
Assessing the impact of free-ranging cats (Felis silvestris catus) and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) on wildlife in a natural urban reserve in Mexico City7
Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes7
Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity7
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city7
The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration7
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts7
Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations7
Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds7
Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient7
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems7
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity7
Urban biodiversity and design in time of (post)pandemics: research perspectives from URBIO international network7
Morphological differences along a chronological gradient of urbanisation in an endemic insectivorous bird of New Zealand7
Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments7
Floral species evenness is the major driver of wild bee communities in urban gardens7
Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents7
A core on the Atlantic margin of Europe: an urban bird assemblage in Cork City, Ireland6
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape6
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures6
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal6
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands6
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City6
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover6
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America6
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees6
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes6
Response to commentary on “cues to care: future directions for ecological landscapes”6
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia6
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes6
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city6
The use of geotechnologies for the identification of the urban flora in the city of Teresina, Brazil6
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction6
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates6
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect6
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole6
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions6
The response of avian chewing lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) loads to early-1900s urbanization in the Western United States6
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation6
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation6
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces6
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia6
Influence of habitat structures on fish abundances and diversity: comparing mainstream and tributary communities in the urban uMsunduze Catchment, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa6
Urbanisation differently affects decomposition rates of recalcitrant woody material and labile leaf litter6
Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation5
When scale matters to disentangle the effect of habitat and temperature on ground-dwelling spider communities in urban environments5
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India5
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?5
The luxury effect in urban aquatic ecosystems: exploring drivers of change5
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA5
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution5
Characteristics of the urban sewer system and rat presence in Seattle5
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China5
The effect of artificial light on bat richness and nocturnal soundscapes along an urbanization gradient in an arid landscape of central Peru5
Author Correction: Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City5
Room for rent: how habitat and materials influence the use of insect nesting boxes5
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability5
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes5
Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection5
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City5
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments5
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity5
Urbanization affects web abundance and aggregation of a funnel-weaving spider, Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Agelenidae)5
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions5
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity5
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity5
Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience5
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities5
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions5
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city5
Endozoochorous seed dispersal in urban ecosystems: a global review of patterns, interactions, and knowledge gaps5
New native species for extensive green roofs to enrich urban ecosystem services in semiarid regions4
Urbanization shifts stress-response traits in an alien herb across five tropical cities4
The effect of root shaving and biostimulant application on the transplant success of six common Australian urban tree species4
Bacterial communities in peat swamps reflect changes associated with catchment urbanisation4
Are the same factors determining biodiversity in cities across different regions? Comparing drivers of urban bird richness patterns in Southern Asia vs. Western Europe4
How close can we get? Tolerance to human approximation of invasive doves vs. native doves4
Native plant gardens support more microbial diversity and higher relative abundance of potentially beneficial taxa compared to adjacent turf grass lawns4
Effect of urbanisation on feces deposited across natural urban forest fragments4
Are acoustic indices useful for monitoring urban biodiversity?4
Invertebrate diversity in peri-urban community gardens and possible mechanisms of community assemblage4
Responses of photosynthesis and long-term water use efficiency to ambient air pollution in urban roadside trees4
Legacy effects of housing segregation on urban mammal communities in Washington, D.C., USA4
The effect of urbanization and behavioral factors on coyote net displacement and its implications for seed dispersal4
Author Correction: Molluscs community as a keystone group for assessing the impact of urban sprawl at intertidal ecosystems4
Expanding catchment-scale hydrologic restoration in suburban watersheds via stream mitigation crediting—A Northern Kentucky (USA) case study4
Correlation does not imply causation: decline of house sparrow overshadowed by electromagnetic radiation4
Exploring the connection between transdisciplinary co-production and urban sustainability solutions: a case study at an urban stream management symposium4
Urban heat and desert wildlife: rodent body condition across a gradient of surface temperatures4
Dietary flexibility of Wood Storks in response to human-induced rapid environmental change4
Increased bat activity at urban water sources: implications for cross-species transmission of bat rabies to mesocarnivores4
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)4
Spatial ecology of crested porcupine in a metropolitan landscape4
We are not the problem, cars are: effect of different human activities in an urban area on opossums health and population size4
Differences between urban and natural populations of dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion damaranum): a case of urban warfare?4
Cultivar blends: A strategy for creating more resilient warm season turfgrass lawns4
Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa4
Seasonal variation in urban pollen resource use by north temperate European honeybees4
Foxes at your front door? Habitat selection and home range estimation of suburban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)4
Constructed communities of geophyte and succulent mixes are suitable for non-irrigated extensive green roofs in Mediterranean cities4
Evaluating the driving factors of the environmental injustice caused by the spatial mismatch of ecosystem services in mega cities in China4
The structure of plant-herbivore interactions in urban savanna fragments reveals an unexpected high specialization and dependency on plant and insect attributes4
Crypsis in a polymorphic mammal along an urbanization gradient4
Is urban stream restoration really a wicked problem?4
Nectar plants visited by hummingbirds in an urban area of southern Brazil4
Understanding predictors of mistletoe infection across an urban university campus in Southwest China4
Ecoacoustic methods application for urban biodiversity monitoring4
Reassessing the role of herbivores on urban coral reefs: A case study from a heavily impacted reef near Cartagena Bay, Colombia4
Decreased functional dispersal traits of spontaneous plants in urban areas4
How many sparrows are there in a city of million people? Understanding the population of sympatric sparrows in the urban gradient of a tropical city in Southeast Asia4
Examination of the presence of evolutionary response behind larger size at metamorphosis in urban toads4
Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size3
Passive restoration of vegetation on gravel/sand bars in the city: a case study in Prague, Czech Republic3
Living in a tropical concrete jungle: diversity and abundance variation in a parrot assemblage (Aves, Psittacidae) of a major Amazonian city3
Differences in sex ratio, tail autotomy, body size and body condition between suburban and forest populations of the cuban endemic lizard Anolis homolechis3
Aircraft noise modifies acoustic signals and social interactions of a microendemic frog from Mexico City3
What factors are influencing peri-urban forest carbon storage in different land use types based on permanent plots from 2009–20183
Designing “Tiny Forests” as a lesson for transdisciplinary urban ecology learning3
Predation risk and decision-making of grey squirrels in urban and rural forested parks3
Patterns and correlates in the distribution, design and management of garden ponds along an urban–rural gradient3
An improved method for the identification and setting of ecological corridors in urbanized areas3
Genotoxic analysis of Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nestlings in an urban environment in the Central-West region of Brazil3
Modeling the spatial distribution of multiple ecosystem services in Ilam dam watershed, Western Iran: identification of areas for spatial planning3
Exploring the value of ecosystem services at health clinic gardens in a South African context3
The use of cellular telecommunication towers as nesting sites by pied crows (Corvus albus) in an urban mosaic landscape3
Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city3
Small parks in residential neighborhoods as habitats for ground-dwelling beetles, spiders, and ants3
Natural habitats in manor landscape gardens: their distribution and quality3
Can road stormwater ponds be successfully exploited by the European green frog (Pelophylax sp.)?3
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites are correlated with urbanization but not body condition in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)3
Higher rat abundance in greener urban areas3
Dynamics of nest availability occurrence of Blue and Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nests in the urban area of ​​Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul3
Patterns in tree squirrel co-occurrence vary with responses to local land cover in US cities3
Hurricane driven changes in vegetation structure and ecosystem services in tropical urban yards: a study case in San Juan, Puerto Rico3
Floristic changes of vascular flora in the city of Rome through grid-cell census over 23 years3
Vegetation regulations and upkeeping influence avifauna diversity within residential developments of Mexico City3
Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams3
Using the dendro-climatological signal of urban trees as a measure of urbanization and urban heat island3
Changes in urban landcover picks winners and losers in the non-invasive bird community3
Correction to: Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities3
Species composition, distribution patterns, and conservation needs of large old trees in Baisha, southern China3
Potential habitat and carrying capacity of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes in an urban environment: implications for conservation and recovery3
Citizen-science data identifies the daily movement patterns and habitat associations of a nocturnal urban-invading bird species (Corvus frugilegus)3
Predicting burrowing owl flight trajectories in urban environments3
Human recreational activity does not influence open cup avian nest survival in urban green spaces3
Environmental equity and urban afforestation in the extreme northeastern Brazilian Amazon3
Habitat surrogates for plant richness as a tool for rapid biodiversity assessment in urban areas3
Tree cavity availability and distribution across habitats in Udaipur (Rajasthan), a small Indian City: implications for urban wildlife3
Tick infestation of birds across a gradient of urbanization intensity in the United States Great Plains3
Urban–rural gradients in soil nutrients beneath Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) are affected by land-use3
Correction: Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services3
Urbanites’ perception of vegetation in landscape-based stormwater management elements (LSM)3
A transdisciplinary multiscaled approach to engage with green infrastructure planning, restoration and use in sub-Saharan Africa3
A multi-scale, multi-species approach highlights the importance of urban greenspace and pond design for amphibian communities3
Lessons learned through participatory bird-window collision research on a university campus3
Sedum as host plants for caterpillars? Introducing gut content metabarcoding to green roof research3
Restoring geomorphic integrity in urban streams via mechanistically-based storm water management: minimizing excess sediment transport capacity2
An interdisciplinary, co-teaching approach to a course in urban social-ecological systems2
Socio-environmental drivers of human-nature interactions in urban green spaces2
Predation risk of caterpillar prey is shaped by arthropods and urbanisation in an urban-agricultural landscape: a common garden experiment2
Pollen diversity in urban honey: implications for bee foraging behaviour and urban green space planning2
Species richness patterns and community structure of land snail communities along an urban-rural gradient in river floodplains2
A connectivity analysis to find areas for habitat restoration of the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) in its natural habitat2
More than noise: light, moon phase, and singing behavior in a passerine2
Embracing ambivalence as the key to promoting tree diversities as nature-based solutions in European cities2
Vegetation influences urban Northern short-tailed shrew site occupancy2
Soil properties that differentiate urban land use types with different surface geology in Southwest Nigeria2
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