OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Ecosystems is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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
Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city	17
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vegetated roofs in boreal climate support mobile open habitat arthropods, with differentiation between meadow and succulent roofs	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
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
Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams	9
Effect of urbanization intensity on nest-site selection by Eurasian Magpies (Pica pica)	9
An improved method for the identification and setting of ecological corridors in urbanized areas	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
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
Carbon stock and woody species diversity patterns in church forests along church age gradient in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	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
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
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
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
Expanding catchment-scale hydrologic restoration in suburban watersheds via stream mitigation crediting—A Northern Kentucky (USA) case study	7
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
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
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