Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	119
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	49
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	37
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	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	30
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	29
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	28
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	27
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	26
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	24
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	23
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	23
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	22
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	21
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	21
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	20
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	20
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	20
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	20
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats	19
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	19
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	19
Confluences and land cover as agents of change: habitat change modifies the movement and assemblage stability of headwater fishes	18
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	18
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	18

Linking activity of common pipistrelles, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in an urbanised area with a nearby mass swarming site	16
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data	15
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	15
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	15
Correction to: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	15
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments	15
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	14
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	14
Ecology with Cities	14
The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens	13
A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas	13
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs	13
Insect “Bee&Bees” and pollinator penthouses: teaching students about pollinators and their services in an urban environment	13
A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	13
Correction to: Can road stormwater ponds be successfully exploited by the European green frog (Pelophylax sp.)?	12
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State	12
Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation	12
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes	12
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system	12
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia	12
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	12
Long-term assessment of floodplain reconnection as a stream restoration approach for managing nitrogen in ground and surface waters	11
Constructing ecological corridors in response to extensive rural sprawl in a highly developed urban agglomeration	11
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon	11
American Oystercatcher benefits from a heterogeneous landscape to breed in an urbanized area in southern Brazil	11
Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study	10
Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species	10
Urban yards as potential conservation space: large, diverse gardens may be valuable resource patches for butterflies	10
Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments	10
Propagation of inflowing urban stormwater pulses through reservoir embayments	10
Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China	10
Where the risk is more intense: riparian forests keep the euglossine bees community most affected by anthropic disturbance in the Caatinga dry forest	10
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river	10
Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability	10
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city	10
Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity	10
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas	9
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization	9
Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China	9
Lizard community structure and spatial resource use along a forest-savannah-urban habitat gradient in the Dahomey Gap (West Africa)	9
Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation	9
Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition	9
Predicting people’s motivation to engage in urban predator control	9
Assessing urban-heating impact on street tree growth in Berlin with open inventory and environmental data	9
Intra- and interspecific interactions in the Indian urban ecosystem with special reference to street cattle as the pivot	9
Disentangling drivers of temporal changes in urban pond macroinvertebrate diversity	9
Plant performance analysis of biofacades in a hot, arid Region of Qatar	9
Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides	9
Numeric response of a neotropical raptor to urbanization gradient in central Argentina	9
Urban ecology and biological studies in Brazilian cities: a systematic review	9

High species turnover shapes anuran community composition in ponds along an urban-rural gradient	8
Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions	8
Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds	8
Floral species evenness is the major driver of wild bee communities in urban gardens	8
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	8
Urbanization affects the richness of invasive alien trees but has limited influence on species composition	8
Bird community responses to urbanization and vegetation parameters across the city of Salzburg, Austria	8
Spatiotemporal use of urban rivers by local bat populations in a large city (Cracow, Southern Poland)	8
Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes	8
Morphological differences along a chronological gradient of urbanisation in an endemic insectivorous bird of New Zealand	8
Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments	8
Intra-urban spatial heterogeneity of autumn leaf senescence: effects of land-use composition on tree phenology in Wuhan, China	8
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	8
Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations	8
Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient	8
Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity	8
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	7
Identifying the factors that influence raccoon (Procyon lotor) and southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) use of stormwater sewer systems	7
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	7
The use of geotechnologies for the identification of the urban flora in the city of Teresina, Brazil	7
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	7
Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents	7
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city	7
Urban biodiversity and design in time of (post)pandemics: research perspectives from URBIO international network	7
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	7
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	7
The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration	7
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	7
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces	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
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	6
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	6
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city	6
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	6
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	6
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	6
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	6
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	6
Drivers of woody plant phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity across an urban density gradient	6
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	6
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities	6
Response to commentary on “cues to care: future directions for ecological landscapes”	6
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	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
Influence of habitat structures on fish abundances and diversity: comparing mainstream and tributary communities in the urban uMsunduze Catchment, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	6
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes	6
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	6
Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection	6
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	6
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	6
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	6
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	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
A core on the Atlantic margin of Europe: an urban bird assemblage in Cork City, Ireland	6
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	6
The effect of artificial light on bat richness and nocturnal soundscapes along an urbanization gradient in an arid landscape of central Peru	5
Differences between urban and natural populations of dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion damaranum): a case of urban warfare?	5
Crypsis in a polymorphic mammal along an urbanization gradient	5
New native species for extensive green roofs to enrich urban ecosystem services in semiarid regions	5
Legacy effects of housing segregation on urban mammal communities in Washington, D.C., USA	5
High modularity of plant-pollinator interactions in an urban garden is driven by phenological continuity and flower morphology	5
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity	5
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	5
Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience	5
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity	5
Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	5
Decreased functional dispersal traits of spontaneous plants in urban areas	5
The effect of urbanization and behavioral factors on coyote net displacement and its implications for seed dispersal	5
Evaluating the driving factors of the environmental injustice caused by the spatial mismatch of ecosystem services in mega cities in China	5
Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	5
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions	5
Correlation does not imply causation: decline of house sparrow overshadowed by electromagnetic radiation	5
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	5
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	5
Endozoochorous seed dispersal in urban ecosystems: a global review of patterns, interactions, and knowledge gaps	5
The luxury effect in urban aquatic ecosystems: exploring drivers of change	5
Author Correction: Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City	5

When scale matters to disentangle the effect of habitat and temperature on ground-dwelling spider communities in urban environments	5
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 Asia	5
Author Correction: Molluscs community as a keystone group for assessing the impact of urban sprawl at intertidal ecosystems	5
The effect of root shaving and biostimulant application on the transplant success of six common Australian urban tree species	5
Urbanization affects web abundance and aggregation of a funnel-weaving spider, Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Agelenidae)	5
Room for rent: how habitat and materials influence the use of insect nesting boxes	5
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	5
Characteristics of the urban sewer system and rat presence in Seattle	5
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?	5
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability	5
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China	5
Responses of photosynthesis and long-term water use efficiency to ambient air pollution in urban roadside trees	4
Differences in sex ratio, tail autotomy, body size and body condition between suburban and forest populations of the cuban endemic lizard Anolis homolechis	4
Understanding predictors of mistletoe infection across an urban university campus in Southwest China	4
Changes in urban landcover picks winners and losers in the non-invasive bird community	4
Are the same factors determining biodiversity in cities across different regions? Comparing drivers of urban bird richness patterns in Southern Asia vs. Western Europe	4
Urbanization shifts stress-response traits in an alien herb across five tropical cities	4
Examination of the presence of evolutionary response behind larger size at metamorphosis in urban toads	4
A multi-scale, multi-species approach highlights the importance of urban greenspace and pond design for amphibian communities	4
Exploring the connection between transdisciplinary co-production and urban sustainability solutions: a case study at an urban stream management symposium	4
Cultivar blends: A strategy for creating more resilient warm season turfgrass lawns	4
Effect of urbanisation on feces deposited across natural urban forest fragments	4
Is urban stream restoration really a wicked problem?	4
Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city	4
Vegetation regulations and upkeeping influence avifauna diversity within residential developments of Mexico City	4
Using the dendro-climatological signal of urban trees as a measure of urbanization and urban heat island	4
Seasonal variation in urban pollen resource use by north temperate European honeybees	4
An improved method for the identification and setting of ecological corridors in urbanized areas	4
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
Lessons learned through participatory bird-window collision research on a university campus	4
Spatial ecology of crested porcupine in a metropolitan landscape	4
Nectar plants visited by hummingbirds in an urban area of southern Brazil	4
Ecoacoustic methods application for urban biodiversity monitoring	4
Invertebrate diversity in peri-urban community gardens and possible mechanisms of community assemblage	4
We are not the problem, cars are: effect of different human activities in an urban area on opossums health and population size	4
Increased bat activity at urban water sources: implications for cross-species transmission of bat rabies to mesocarnivores	4
Hurricane driven changes in vegetation structure and ecosystem services in tropical urban yards: a study case in San Juan, Puerto Rico	4
Urban–rural gradients in soil nutrients beneath Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) are affected by land-use	4
Urbanites’ perception of vegetation in landscape-based stormwater management elements (LSM)	4
Are acoustic indices useful for monitoring urban biodiversity?	4
Native plant gardens support more microbial diversity and higher relative abundance of potentially beneficial taxa compared to adjacent turf grass lawns	4
Exploring the value of ecosystem services at health clinic gardens in a South African context	4
Crop-specialized pollinator drives bee and floral community response to urbanization on small squash farms	4
Constructed communities of geophyte and succulent mixes are suitable for non-irrigated extensive green roofs in Mediterranean cities	4
Foxes at your front door? Habitat selection and home range estimation of suburban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)	4
Bacterial communities in peat swamps reflect changes associated with catchment urbanisation	4
Expanding catchment-scale hydrologic restoration in suburban watersheds via stream mitigation crediting—A Northern Kentucky (USA) case study	4
Reassessing the role of herbivores on urban coral reefs: A case study from a heavily impacted reef near Cartagena Bay, Colombia	4
Urban heat and desert wildlife: rodent body condition across a gradient of surface temperatures	4
Dietary flexibility of Wood Storks in response to human-induced rapid environmental change	4
How close can we get? Tolerance to human approximation of invasive doves vs. native doves	4
Correction to: Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities	4
The structure of plant-herbivore interactions in urban savanna fragments reveals an unexpected high specialization and dependency on plant and insect attributes	4
Predicting burrowing owl flight trajectories in urban environments	3
Modeling the spatial distribution of multiple ecosystem services in Ilam dam watershed, Western Iran: identification of areas for spatial planning	3
Predation risk and decision-making of grey squirrels in urban and rural forested parks	3
Patterns and correlates in the distribution, design and management of garden ponds along an urban–rural gradient	3
Creative management: a framework for designing multifunctional play biotopes - lessons from a Scandinavian landscape laboratory	3
Effects of urban ecosystem under the diversity and structure of two forest ecotones in Maranhão state	3
Small parks in residential neighborhoods as habitats for ground-dwelling beetles, spiders, and ants	3
Higher rat abundance in greener urban areas	3
Urban pondscape connecting people with nature and biodiversity in a medium-sized European city (Geneva, Switzerland)	3
Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size	3
Citizen-science data identifies the daily movement patterns and habitat associations of a nocturnal urban-invading bird species (Corvus frugilegus)	3
Human recreational activity does not influence open cup avian nest survival in urban green spaces	3
Living in a tropical concrete jungle: diversity and abundance variation in a parrot assemblage (Aves, Psittacidae) of a major Amazonian city	3
Correction: Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services	3
Habitat surrogates for plant richness as a tool for rapid biodiversity assessment in urban areas	3
Environmental equity and urban afforestation in the extreme northeastern Brazilian Amazon	3
What factors are influencing peri-urban forest carbon storage in different land use types based on permanent plots from 2009–2018	3
A transdisciplinary multiscaled approach to engage with green infrastructure planning, restoration and use in sub-Saharan Africa	3
The use of cellular telecommunication towers as nesting sites by pied crows (Corvus albus) in an urban mosaic landscape	3
Response of urban tree DBH to fast urbanization: Case of coastal Zhanjiang in south China	3
The effects of urban density on the provision of multiple health-related ecosystem services	3
Species composition, distribution patterns, and conservation needs of large old trees in Baisha, southern China	3
Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams	3
Plant composition, water resources and built structures influence bird diversity: a case study in a high Andean city with homogeneous soundscape	3
Floristic changes of vascular flora in the city of Rome through grid-cell census over 23 years	3
Passive restoration of vegetation on gravel/sand bars in the city: a case study in Prague, Czech Republic	3
Designing “Tiny Forests” as a lesson for transdisciplinary urban ecology learning	3
Urban eastern gray squirrels (sciurus carolinensis) show little seasonal variation in biochemical and hematological parameters	3
Dynamics of nest availability occurrence of Blue and Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nests in the urban area of ​​Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul	3
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites are correlated with urbanization but not body condition in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)	3
Tree cavity availability and distribution across habitats in Udaipur (Rajasthan), a small Indian City: implications for urban wildlife	3
Sedum as host plants for caterpillars? Introducing gut content metabarcoding to green roof research	3
Patterns in tree squirrel co-occurrence vary with responses to local land cover in US cities	3
Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta, China: response to urbanizing variation	3
Global wildlife roadkill research: a bibliometric synthesis of historical trends, thematic gaps, and future directions	3
Natural habitats in manor landscape gardens: their distribution and quality	3
Tick infestation of birds across a gradient of urbanization intensity in the United States Great Plains	3
Floral richness and seasonality influences bee and non-bee flower interactions in urban community gardens	3
Genotoxic analysis of Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nestlings in an urban environment in the Central-West region of Brazil	3
Potential habitat and carrying capacity of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes in an urban environment: implications for conservation and recovery	3
Aircraft noise modifies acoustic signals and social interactions of a microendemic frog from Mexico City	3
Sustainable functional roles of ecologically sensitive areas in the Greater Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana: exploring local perceptions and attitudes from a socio-economic purview	3