Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	60
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	53
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	46
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	44
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	44
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	41
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	39
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	38
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	37
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	35
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	32
Wildlife recovery during a COVID-19 closure in a Semi-Urban landscape	30
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	25
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	24
Functional traits mediate pollinator community responses to urban development in Central Arkansas	22
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	22
Urban trees as biodiversity scaffolds: patterns and drivers of epiphyte diversity in a tropical city	20
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	20
Little things in the cities: green spaces management shapes species centrality in ant-diaspore network in a vast Tropical City	19
Silent extinctions: how neglecting the ecological value of habitat trees threatens urban biodiversity and ecosystem services	19
Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba	19
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	18
Urban forest management in Butembo (DR Congo): Environmental concerns and social perceptions drive young adults’ intentions to plant and conserve trees	18
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	18
Complex interactions between local habitat features, landscape factors and seasonality shape soil microarthropod communities in urban green areas	18

Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	18
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data	17
Small but connected: assessing the contribution of civic-led hedgerow planting on landscape connectivity in periurban Paris	17
Supplementary urban green infrastructure: community perceptions of trees and their benefits	17
Drivers of compositional turnover of the non-native urban flora in the Western Cape, South Africa	16
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	16
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	16
Correction to: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	16
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	16
Coexistence or conflict? Understanding human-macaque encounters in Delhi’s urban sanctuary	15
Urban landscape heterogeneity can modulate the invasive potential of non-native species	15
A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	15
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats	15
Valuing urban wetlands for sustainable land use: recreational services and economic insights from a travel cost framework	14
The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens	14
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	14
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes	14
Urban forest remnants: key refuges for reptile conservation in the highlands of southern Mexico, local and landscape environmental factors effects	14
How green infrastructure change shapes regulating ecosystem services in urban landscapes? Trade-offs between urban cooling and stormwater retention in Taipei	14
Green infrastructure dynamics in the urban areas of subarctic Western Siberia	14
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State	14
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments	14
The role of urban parks and informal green spaces in supporting the biodiversity of spontaneous flora and insect pollinators: a case study in Prague, Czech Republic	14
Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation	13
Biotic homogenisation in urban grasslands: which bird and plant species and traits are selected in urban contexts?	13
Segment-based analysis of ecological networks in urban river riparian zones under land use change	13
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	13
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system	13
Constructing ecological corridors in response to extensive rural sprawl in a highly developed urban agglomeration	13
A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas	13
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon	13
Beyond urbanization metrics: Using graphical causal models to investigate mechanisms in urban ecology and evolution	13
The quality inequity of the ecosystem services delivered by green spaces: evidence from 226 Urban Parks in Hangzhou, China	13
Predicting people’s motivation to engage in urban predator control	12
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas	12
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization	12
Network of interactions in a recently implemented urban pollinator garden	12
Urban yards as potential conservation space: large, diverse gardens may be valuable resource patches for butterflies	12
Unexplored source of urban biodiversity – preliminary studies on the underground channel of the Brzoza River (Łódź, Central Poland)	12
Use of a public questionnaire to evaluate human-wildlife conflict and the efficacy of nonlethal wildlife deterrents: Lessons from a desert city	12
Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments	12
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city	12
Priorities, concerns, and potential compromises amongst urban forest stakeholders: international lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand	12
Trends in sika deer population in an urban–suburban area	12
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river	12
Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China	12
Bird diversity at urban stormwater ponds: Temporal variation and habitat associations	12
Environmental drivers shaping seasonal odonata diversity dynamics in India’s largest urban park	12
Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species	12
Where the risk is more intense: riparian forests keep the euglossine bees community most affected by anthropic disturbance in the Caatinga dry forest	11

Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides	11
Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations	11
Numeric response of a neotropical raptor to urbanization gradient in central Argentina	11
Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity	11
Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability	11
Urban ecology and biological studies in Brazilian cities: a systematic review	11
Intra- and interspecific interactions in the Indian urban ecosystem with special reference to street cattle as the pivot	11
Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition	11
Integrated geospatial assessment of human footprint impact on regulating ecosystem services in the Himalayan urban landscape	11
Intra-urban spatial heterogeneity of autumn leaf senescence: effects of land-use composition on tree phenology in Wuhan, China	11
Assessing urban-heating impact on street tree growth in Berlin with open inventory and environmental data	11
High occupancy of non-native carnivores in riparian ecosystems along an urban gradient in Chile	10
Species–park networks reflect the spatial structure of urban green infrastructure	10
Research on the optimisation of age-friendly greenways in communities from the perspective of shadow spatial distribution	10
Comparative analysis of ecological corridor evolution and environmental quality in an urban small watershed: A case study of the Jiyu River, Hefei (2019–2024)	10
Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China	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
Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation	10
Assessing urban riparian degradation, using an indicator-based species approach in a West African suburban area	10
Spatiotemporal use of urban rivers by local bat populations in a large city (Cracow, Southern Poland)	10
Habitat buffering of under-canopy microclimate and ground temperature along urban–rural gradients in short-term urbanized area: a case study of Hengqin island	10
The anthropause as a behavioral reset: persistent reduction in territorial aggression in an urban songbird	10
Limited effects of short-term nutrient enrichment or abrupt light changes on daytime periphyton nutrient uptake in urban streams	10
Impacts of vegetation management on pollination network structure and robustness in urban parks: A case study from Beijing Wenyu River Park	10
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
Disentangling drivers of temporal changes in urban pond macroinvertebrate diversity	9
Projected climate-driven shifts in urban forest suitability across Brazilian biomes	9
Herpetofaunal diversity and habitat associations in an urban protected area: a case study from Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary, Delhi	9
Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient	9
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	9
Resilience assessment and spatial optimization of urban ecological network based on complex network theory and PLUS model	9
Increasing vegetation cover masks ecological degradation during urban expansion	9
Bird community responses to urbanization and vegetation parameters across the city of Salzburg, Austria	9
Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments	9
Assessing urbanization impacts on dung beetle communities: insights from a neotropical Andean city	9
Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes	9
Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds	9
Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents	9
Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions	9
Identifying the factors that influence raccoon (Procyon lotor) and southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) use of stormwater sewer systems	9
Role of ecological revetment in ecosystem recovery and microclimate regulation along the urban river in Vinh City, Vietnam	9
Exploring plant functional diversity and ecological dynamics in urban forests: insights from Metropolitan Manila	9
Future climate impacts on carbon sequestration dynamics across urban ecosystem types in Finnish cities	8
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	8
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	8
Floral species evenness is the major driver of wild bee communities in urban gardens	8
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands	8
The response of avian chewing lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) loads to early-1900s urbanization in the Western United States	8
Rethinking land use in cities: the ecological role of urban golf courses in forest and air quality management	8
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	8
Anthropized riparian forests show non-timber forest product potential in an industrial hub of the Eastern Amazon	8
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	8
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	8
Noise, resources, and social factors shape space use and movement patterns in a small Amazonian primate	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
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	8
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	8
Human–weasel conflict in Egypt: analyzing public reactions on social media to Mustela subpalmata presence in urban areas	8
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	8
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city	8
Patch-level floral diversity and structural complexity drive differences in bumblebee richness and composition across different urban green space types	8
The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration	8
Mulching promotes soil health and carbon sequestration in arid urban landscapes	8
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	8
Urban native and non-native bird species are functionally redundant in Santiago, Chile	7
Urban sprawl and wetland loss in Dormaa, Ghana: causal drivers and cascading climate risks	7
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	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
Artificial light induces nighttime signaling in a diurnal katydid	7
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	7
Building better homes for pollinators using native-based landscapes in new suburban developments	7
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	7
Anuran assemblage in a rapidly urbanizing City in South Asia	7
Food or urbanization? assessing the diversity of urban insectivorous bats in a Neotropical city	7
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	7
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	7
Drivers of woody plant phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity across an urban density gradient	7
Lizards in the megalopolis: urbanization decreases lizard sperm fertility	7

Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	7
Enhancing urban forest connectivity: a multispecies modelling approach in Helsinki	7
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	7
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	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
Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection	7
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities	7
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	7
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	7
Micro-habitat structure and environmental context of semi-urban landscapes shape sex-specific habitat use and basking behaviour in African rainbow lizards	7
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city	7
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes	7
Woody plant diversity in mosque courtyards: a comparative study of pre- and post-republic periods	7
Entomophilous plants mediate the impacts of urban pressures on cavity-nesting insect diversity	7
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	7
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	7
The influence of green roof features on their carbon and nutrient stocks	6
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	6
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	6
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity	6
Minimizing N2O and CO2 emissions from urban lawns through sustainable management strategies	6
Occurrence of common mistletoe (Viscum album subsp. album) on alien tree species in the urban green areas of Wrocław (Poland)	6
Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in an urban green space	6
Seasonal variation of biochemical and morphological traits of selected tree species in polluted urban areas of Delhi City	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
Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of multiple herbivore mammalian species space use in a fragmented urban landscape in India	6
Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience	6
Multiscale spatial patterns and behavioral variability along an urbanization gradient in a generalist raptor	6
The luxury effect in urban aquatic ecosystems: exploring drivers of change	6
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?	6
Spatial analysis of environmental factors at found locations of orphaned mammals (Didelphis virginiana, Procyon lotor, Sciurus carolinensis, and Sylvilagus floridanus) in Champaign County, Illinois, U	6
Pollination and pest control in urban agriculture: a systematic review of the species associated with beneficial services	6
Landscape, habitat, and environmental predictors differentially influence the richness, abundance, and diversity of butterfly families in tropical urban forest fragments	6
Urban heat Islands shape epiphytic communities of lichens and bryophytes	6
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China	6
High modularity of plant-pollinator interactions in an urban garden is driven by phenological continuity and flower morphology	6
Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	5
Sector expert and public perceptions of greening of grey infrastructure: a case study in Britain’s Ocean City	5
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity	5
Environmental and tree-specific drivers of Bet v 1 allergen in Betula pendula pollen	5
Urban heat and desert wildlife: rodent body condition across a gradient of surface temperatures	5
Evaluation of climate justice in open green spaces based on landscape metrics: the case of Istanbul	5
Food over features: supplementary feeding has the strongest influence on hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) occupancy in urban gardens	5
Experimental exposure to anthropogenic noise disrupts early-stage prey localization in the orb-weaving spider Argiope trifasciata	5
Effect of urbanisation on feces deposited across natural urban forest fragments	5
New native species for extensive green roofs to enrich urban ecosystem services in semiarid regions	5
Invertebrate diversity in peri-urban community gardens and possible mechanisms of community assemblage	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
Exploring the subjective and objective characteristics affecting the frequency of human-nature interactions in urban green spaces: a case study from Finland	5
Urban indicators are linked to certain pollination-related plant and floral traits in traffic-exposed green spaces	5
Correction to: Alien Euphorbia hyssopifolia as a threat in arid peri-urban and urban ecosystems	5
Urban botanical gardens as refugia for bird diversity: habitat-driven community structure and functional guild patterns in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	5
Room for rent: how habitat and materials influence the use of insect nesting boxes	5
Endozoochorous seed dispersal in urban ecosystems: a global review of patterns, interactions, and knowledge gaps	5
When scale matters to disentangle the effect of habitat and temperature on ground-dwelling spider communities in urban environments	5
Decreased functional dispersal traits of spontaneous plants in urban areas	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
Crop-specialized pollinator drives bee and floral community response to urbanization on small squash farms	5
Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	5
The effect of urbanization and behavioral factors on coyote net displacement and its implications for seed dispersal	5
The effect of root shaving and biostimulant application on the transplant success of six common Australian urban tree species	5
Eco-cultural monitoring reveals low impact of a Dharug Dhiyina women-led Guwiyang (fire) in an urban National Park, Australia	5
Fire and food: how do insectivorous small mammals respond to urban wildfires?	5
Differences between urban and natural populations of dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion damaranum): a case of urban warfare?	5
Evaluating the driving factors of the environmental injustice caused by the spatial mismatch of ecosystem services in mega cities in China	5
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	5
Physicochemical gradients in urban prairie wetlands support the need for water-chemistry-based stormwater wetland classification	5
Crypsis in a polymorphic mammal along an urbanization gradient	5
Assessment of woody plant diversity in urban parks of Gaziantep, Türkiye, using biodiversity indices	5
Reassessing the role of herbivores on urban coral reefs: A case study from a heavily impacted reef near Cartagena Bay, Colombia	5
Understanding predictors of mistletoe infection across an urban university campus in Southwest China	5
Legacy effects of housing segregation on urban mammal communities in Washington, D.C., USA	5
Enhancing urban lawn diversity: investigating survival, growth, flowering, and pollinator attractiveness of groundcover plant species	5
The effect of urbanization on dislodged abundance of two flea species in arboreal squirrels	5
Airborne Betula, poaceae, and Ambrosia Artemisiifolia pollen and allergen exposure: a comparative study of urban and rural environments	5
Urbanization affects web abundance and aggregation of a funnel-weaving spider, Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Agelenidae)	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