OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Ecosystems is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
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 Town	45
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards	37
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	30
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	28
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	28
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	27
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	25
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	25
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	23
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	22
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	22
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	21
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	20
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	20
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	20
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	19
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	19
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	19
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	19
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	19
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	18
Ecology with Cities	18
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	17
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs	16

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
Azadirachta indica A. Juss. a multi-purpose tree as a leading species in carbon stocking in two Sahelian cities of Niger	15
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	15
Confluences and land cover as agents of change: habitat change modifies the movement and assemblage stability of headwater fishes	15
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments	14
Linking activity of common pipistrelles, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in an urbanised area with a nearby mass swarming site	14
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	14
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats	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
A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	13
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia	12
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	12
The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens	12
Insect “Bee&Bees” and pollinator penthouses: teaching students about pollinators and their services in an urban environment	12
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	12
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State	12
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	12
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data	12
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system	11
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 waters	11
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes	11
Say what? On the transmission of acoustic signals in a Neotropical green city	11
A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas	10
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	10
Predicting people’s motivation to engage in urban predator control	10
Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation	10
Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study	10
Propagation of inflowing urban stormwater pulses through reservoir embayments	10
American Oystercatcher benefits from a heterogeneous landscape to breed in an urbanized area in southern Brazil	10
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon	10
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river	10
Constructing ecological corridors in response to extensive rural sprawl in a highly developed urban agglomeration	10
Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species	9
Plant performance analysis of biofacades in a hot, arid Region of Qatar	9
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city	9
Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China	9
Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides	9
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas	9
Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability	9
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization	9
Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments	9
Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions	8
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 butterflies	8
Disentangling drivers of temporal changes in urban pond macroinvertebrate diversity	8
Intra- and interspecific interactions in the Indian urban ecosystem with special reference to street cattle as the pivot	8
High species turnover shapes anuran community composition in ponds along an urban-rural gradient	8
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 forest	8

Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China	8
Numeric response of a neotropical raptor to urbanization gradient in central Argentina	8
Urban ecology and biological studies in Brazilian cities: a systematic review	8
Assessing urban-heating impact on street tree growth in Berlin with open inventory and environmental data	8
Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition	8
Urbanization affects the richness of invasive alien trees but has limited influence on species composition	8
Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity	8
Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation	8
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	7
Morphological differences along a chronological gradient of urbanisation in an endemic insectivorous bird of New Zealand	7
Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments	7
Floral species evenness is the major driver of wild bee communities in urban gardens	7
Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents	7
The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration	7
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	7
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	7
Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes	7
Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity	7
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city	7
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	7
Urban biodiversity and design in time of (post)pandemics: research perspectives from URBIO international network	7
Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations	7
Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds	7
Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient	7
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	7
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	6
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	6
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	6
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	6
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	6
The response of avian chewing lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) loads to early-1900s urbanization in the Western United States	6
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	6
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	6
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces	6
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	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
Urbanisation differently affects decomposition rates of recalcitrant woody material and labile leaf litter	6
A core on the Atlantic margin of Europe: an urban bird assemblage in Cork City, Ireland	6
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	6
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	6
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	6
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands	6
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	6
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	6
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	6
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	6
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes	6
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, Colombia	6
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	6
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	6
The use of geotechnologies for the identification of the urban flora in the city of Teresina, Brazil	6
Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection	5
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	5
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	5
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	5
Urbanization affects web abundance and aggregation of a funnel-weaving spider, Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Agelenidae)	5
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions	5
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity	5
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity	5
Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience	5
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities	5
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	5
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city	5
Endozoochorous seed dispersal in urban ecosystems: a global review of patterns, interactions, and knowledge gaps	5
Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	5
When scale matters to disentangle the effect of habitat and temperature on ground-dwelling spider communities in urban environments	5
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	5
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 change	5
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	5
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	5
Characteristics of the urban sewer system and rat presence in Seattle	5
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China	5
The effect of artificial light on bat richness and nocturnal soundscapes along an urbanization gradient in an arid landscape of central Peru	5
Author Correction: Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City	5
Room for rent: how habitat and materials influence the use of insect nesting boxes	5
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability	5
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	5