Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	93
Western Cattle Egrets’ (Bubulcus ibis) roosting colony size estimates in urban landscape mosaics of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with notes on habitat threats and features near roosts	38
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	36
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	27
Artemisia pollen dispersal pattern and feasible intervention measures in Hohhot, China	26
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	25
Effects of urbanization-related disturbances on macroinvertebrate communities in a Patagonian river system: insights from a functional approach	22
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands	22
Urban biotope classification incorporates urban forest and green infrastructure for improved environmental land-use planning in Mexico City	22
Modeling the spatial distribution of multiple ecosystem services in Ilam dam watershed, Western Iran: identification of areas for spatial planning	22
Busy on campus: activity budget, feeding habit and habitat use by the Gambian sun squirrel Heliosciurus gambianus on the University of Ghana, Legon campus	20
From metropolis to wilderness: Uncovering pollen collecting behavior in urban and wild sweat bees (Halictus ligatus)	19
Improving citizen science through collaborative research partnerships between social scientists and environmental practitioners	19
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	19
Identifying urban hotspots of potential bird and pedestrian encounters through corridor overlap	19
Citizens’ perceptions and willingness to pay for urban beekeeping: a case study in northern Italy	18
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	18
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites are correlated with urbanization but not body condition in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)	17
Evaluation of thermal performance in green roofs using recycled construction waste sand as substrate	17
Does urbanization affect behavioral responses to novel objects in marine birds? The Olrog’s Gull as a case of study	17
The value of social media wildlife sightings for elusive species monitoring: a population assessment of servals in a South African urban nature reserve	17
The contribution of informal green space to urban biodiversity: a city-scale assessment using crowdsourced survey data	16
Functional urban ground-cover plants: identifying traits that promote rainwater retention and dissipation	16
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	15
Use of wildlife-friendly structures in residential gardens by animal wildlife: evidence from citizen scientists in a global biodiversity hotspot	15

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	14
Correction to: Reptile responses to outdoor recreation in urban habitat fragments	14
How to plan urban green space in cold regions of China to achieve the best cooling efficiency	13
Develop a public response model of soundscape for urban landscape garden parks	13
Urban–rural gradients in soil nutrients beneath Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) are affected by land-use	12
Effect of replacing surface with underground rubbish containers on urban House Sparrows Passer domesticus	12
Water quality, vegetation, and management of stormwater ponds draining three distinct urban land uses in central Florida	11
To the rescue—Evaluating the social-ecological patterns for bird intakes	11
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	11
Street-level green spaces support a key urban population of the threatened Hispaniolan parakeet Psittacara chloropterus	11
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	11
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	11
Stratifying the urban matrix using zoning laws: a protocol for bats and their pathogens	10
Effects of urban land-use types on avifauna assemblage in a rapidly developing urban settlement in Ghana	10
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	10
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	10
Seasonal activity patterns of sympatric eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in a Midwestern metropolitan region	10
Quantifying potential contributions of green facades to environmental justice: a case study of a quarter in Berlin	10
Dynamics of nest availability occurrence of Blue and Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nests in the urban area of ​​Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul	10
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	10
Diversity of greenspace design and management impacts pollinator communities in a densely urbanized landscape: the city of Paris, France	10
From green to grey: Unravelling the role of urbanization on diversity of dung beetles in an Amazonian landscape	10
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	9
Spread of the invasive Javan myna along an urban–suburban gradient in Peninsular Malaysia	9
Large, concealed islands in the urban sea: Scattered surrounding green space enhances the quality of grassland habitats in urban parks, Tokyo	9
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	9
Environmental equity and urban afforestation in the extreme northeastern Brazilian Amazon	9
Ecology of the synanthropic mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) at their northern invasion front	9
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	9
Differences in sex ratio, tail autotomy, body size and body condition between suburban and forest populations of the cuban endemic lizard Anolis homolechis	9
Unveiling urban ecological integrity: spatially explicit assessment in contrasting environments	9
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	8
Tree canopy macrostructure controls heating of asphalt pavement in a moist-temperate urban forest	8
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	8
Urbanites’ perception of vegetation in landscape-based stormwater management elements (LSM)	8
Song amplitude variation in Masked Gnatcatcher (Polioptila dumicola) as response to traffic noise	8
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	8
Perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provision by small public urban green spaces: perspectives from different cultural backgrounds	8
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	8
Hurricane driven changes in vegetation structure and ecosystem services in tropical urban yards: a study case in San Juan, Puerto Rico	8
Checking in at bee hotels: trap-nesting occupancy and fitness of cavity-nesting bees in an urbanised biodiversity hotspot	8
Wooded areas promote species richness in urban parks	8
The urban in ecology: a quantitative textual analysis of the scientific literature over a century	8
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	8
Study on the ecosystem services of urban forests: implications for climate change mitigation in the case of Adama City of Oromiya Regional Sate, Ethiopia	8
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards	7
The use of geotechnologies for the identification of the urban flora in the city of Teresina, Brazil	7
Urbanization and bird diversity: does the relationship change in deserts and subtropical forests?	7
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	7
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	7

The importance of paleodunes as nesting habitat for Northern Pine Snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus): risk from off-road vehicles in the New Jersey Pine Barrens	7
Mass-flowering native species are key in the structure of an urban plant-hummingbird network	7
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	7
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	7
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	7
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	7
Detecting the tipping point between heat source and sink landscapes to mitigate urban heat island effects	6
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	6
Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city	6
Correction to: The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	6
Correction to: Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities	6
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	6
Soil unsealing in Mediterranean schoolyards: what factors drive ant communities?	6
Genotoxic analysis of Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nestlings in an urban environment in the Central-West region of Brazil	6
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	6
What factors are influencing peri-urban forest carbon storage in different land use types based on permanent plots from 2009–2018	6
Coyotes access diverse anthropogenic attractants at the ecotone between natural and residential urban areas	6
Common camas (Camassia quamash) response across an urban–rural gradient in coastal oak meadows in Greater Victoria, Canada	6
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	6
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	6
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	6
Influence of habitat structures on fish abundances and diversity: comparing mainstream and tributary communities in the urban uMsunduze Catchment, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	6
Ecology with Cities	6
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	6
Carabid specialists respond differently to nonnative plant invasion in urban forests	6
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces	6
Running a successful ecology and environmental justice summer program: a recipe for collaboration among high-schools, local non-profit organizations and ecologists	6
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	6
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	6
Complexities of managing invasive species in semi-urban areas: the case of free-ranging dogs in southern Iran	5
Predicting burrowing owl flight trajectories in urban environments	5
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs	5
Confluences and land cover as agents of change: habitat change modifies the movement and assemblage stability of headwater fishes	5
Correction to: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	5
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	5
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	5
Human recreational activity does not influence open cup avian nest survival in urban green spaces	5
Arsenic speciation in soil from urban recreational parks and human health risk assessment	5
Exposure to urban heavy metal contamination diminishes bumble bee colony growth	5
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	5
Response to commentary on “cues to care: future directions for ecological landscapes”	5
Biological invasions in international seaports: a case study of exotic rodents in Cotonou	5
Relationships between population characteristics and nonresponse in urban forest inventories	5
Temporal variation in ant community assemblages along a rural–urban gradient in the Yaoundé metropolis, Cameroon	5
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	5
Green space in an extremely exposed part of the city center “Aorta of Warsaw” - Case study of the urban lawn	5
Looking beyond leaves: variation in nutrient leaching potential of seasonal litterfall among different species within an urban forest	5
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	5
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	5
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	5
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities	5
Noise attenuation varies by interactions of land cover and season in an urban/peri-urban landscape	5
Human-wildlife interactions: presence of the ground-nesting Spotted Thick-knee across a South African mosaic urban landscape	4
Sedum as host plants for caterpillars? Introducing gut content metabarcoding to green roof research	4
Siblicide in the city: the urban heat island accelerates sibling cannibalism in the black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus)	4
A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	4
The retrieval of food hoarded by red squirrels inhabiting an urban park	4
Floristic changes of vascular flora in the city of Rome through grid-cell census over 23 years	4
A transdisciplinary multiscaled approach to engage with green infrastructure planning, restoration and use in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Local-scale habitat configuration makes a niche for wildlife encroaching into an urban landscape: grubbing sites of wild boar Sus scrofa in a city matrix	4
Dog demography and husbandry practices facilitate dog-wildlife conflict in a suburban-forest interface	4
Trees as a solar control measure for southern-oriented street frontages. Analysis of a selected street model for a humid continental climate	4
Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae) is colonizing urban areas in Cali, Colombia	4
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	4
A core on the Atlantic margin of Europe: an urban bird assemblage in Cork City, Ireland	4
The advantage of living in the city: effects of urbanization on body size and mass of native and alien squirrels	4
Linkages between plant functional diversity and soil-based ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban vacant lots	4
Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size	4
Correction: Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services	4
Estimating the pollination supply of urban green spaces to determine suitable areas for urban agriculture in the city of Tehran	4
Green infrastructure in cities for the achievement of the un sustainable development goals: a systematic review	4
Land sharing between cultivated and wild plants: urban gardens as hotspots for plant diversity in cities	4
City biodiversity index and the cities-biodiversity relationship: a case study for Sorocaba, SP, Brazil	4
The use of cellular telecommunication towers as nesting sites by pied crows (Corvus albus) in an urban mosaic landscape	4
Effect of urbanization on individual condition of a threatened seabird: the Olrog’s Gull Larus atlanticus	4
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	4
Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: impacts on riparian groundwater quality	4
Urban nature-based solutions planning for biodiversity outcomes: human, ecological, and artificial intelligence perspectives	4
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	4
Reclaiming urban vacant land to manage stormwater and support insect habitat	4

Assessing the state of urban forests in Dédougou, a Sahel city in Burkina Faso	4
Monitoring of mammal and bird species in an urban ecological park using environmental DNA metabarcoding	4
Aircraft noise modifies acoustic signals and social interactions of a microendemic frog from Mexico City	4
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	4
Suburban forest patches have high functional and phylogenetic diversity in bird communities	4
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	4
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	4