Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	105
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	43
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	36
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	28
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	27
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	27
Influence of habitat structures on fish abundances and diversity: comparing mainstream and tributary communities in the urban uMsunduze Catchment, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	26
Artemisia pollen dispersal pattern and feasible intervention measures in Hohhot, China	24
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	24
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands	23
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	21
Effects of urbanization-related disturbances on macroinvertebrate communities in a Patagonian river system: insights from a functional approach	21
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
From metropolis to wilderness: Uncovering pollen collecting behavior in urban and wild sweat bees (Halictus ligatus)	19
Evaluation of thermal performance in green roofs using recycled construction waste sand as substrate	18
Citizens’ perceptions and willingness to pay for urban beekeeping: a case study in northern Italy	18
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites are correlated with urbanization but not body condition in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)	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
Does urbanization affect behavioral responses to novel objects in marine birds? The Olrog’s Gull as a case of study	17
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	16
Functional urban ground-cover plants: identifying traits that promote rainwater retention and dissipation	16
Correction to: Reptile responses to outdoor recreation in urban habitat fragments	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	15
Urban–rural gradients in soil nutrients beneath Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) are affected by land-use	14
Develop a public response model of soundscape for urban landscape garden parks	14
Street-level green spaces support a key urban population of the threatened Hispaniolan parakeet Psittacara chloropterus	14
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	13
To the rescue—Evaluating the social-ecological patterns for bird intakes	13
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	13
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	12
Stratifying the urban matrix using zoning laws: a protocol for bats and their pathogens	12
Water quality, vegetation, and management of stormwater ponds draining three distinct urban land uses in central Florida	12
Effects of urban land-use types on avifauna assemblage in a rapidly developing urban settlement in Ghana	12
Diversity of greenspace design and management impacts pollinator communities in a densely urbanized landscape: the city of Paris, France	11
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	11
Seasonal activity patterns of sympatric eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in a Midwestern metropolitan region	11
Dynamics of nest availability occurrence of Blue and Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nests in the urban area of ​​Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul	11
Large, concealed islands in the urban sea: Scattered surrounding green space enhances the quality of grassland habitats in urban parks, Tokyo	11
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	11
Quantifying potential contributions of green facades to environmental justice: a case study of a quarter in Berlin	11
From green to grey: Unravelling the role of urbanization on diversity of dung beetles in an Amazonian landscape	11
Ecology of the synanthropic mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) at their northern invasion front	10
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	10
The urban in ecology: a quantitative textual analysis of the scientific literature over a century	10
Song amplitude variation in Masked Gnatcatcher (Polioptila dumicola) as response to traffic noise	10
Unveiling urban ecological integrity: spatially explicit assessment in contrasting environments	10
Spread of the invasive Javan myna along an urban–suburban gradient in Peninsular Malaysia	10
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	10
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	10
Differences in sex ratio, tail autotomy, body size and body condition between suburban and forest populations of the cuban endemic lizard Anolis homolechis	10
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	10
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	9
Tree canopy macrostructure controls heating of asphalt pavement in a moist-temperate urban forest	9
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	9
Perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provision by small public urban green spaces: perspectives from different cultural backgrounds	9
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	9
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	9
Study on the ecosystem services of urban forests: implications for climate change mitigation in the case of Adama City of Oromiya Regional Sate, Ethiopia	9
Hurricane driven changes in vegetation structure and ecosystem services in tropical urban yards: a study case in San Juan, Puerto Rico	9
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	9
The use of geotechnologies for the identification of the urban flora in the city of Teresina, Brazil	8
Running a successful ecology and environmental justice summer program: a recipe for collaboration among high-schools, local non-profit organizations and ecologists	8
Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city	8
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	8
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	8
Common camas (Camassia quamash) response across an urban–rural gradient in coastal oak meadows in Greater Victoria, Canada	8
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	8
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	8
Urbanization and bird diversity: does the relationship change in deserts and subtropical forests?	8
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces	8
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	8

Carabid specialists respond differently to nonnative plant invasion in urban forests	7
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	7
Correction to: The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	7
Environmental equity and urban afforestation in the extreme northeastern Brazilian Amazon	7
Urbanites’ perception of vegetation in landscape-based stormwater management elements (LSM)	7
What factors are influencing peri-urban forest carbon storage in different land use types based on permanent plots from 2009–2018	7
Coyotes access diverse anthropogenic attractants at the ecotone between natural and residential urban areas	7
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	7
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards	7
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	7
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	7
Correction to: Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities	7
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	7
The contribution of informal green space to urban biodiversity: a city-scale assessment using crowdsourced survey data	7
How to plan urban green space in cold regions of China to achieve the best cooling efficiency	7
Temporal variation in ant community assemblages along a rural–urban gradient in the Yaoundé metropolis, Cameroon	6
Confluences and land cover as agents of change: habitat change modifies the movement and assemblage stability of headwater fishes	6
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city	6
Genotoxic analysis of Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) nestlings in an urban environment in the Central-West region of Brazil	6
Checking in at bee hotels: trap-nesting occupancy and fitness of cavity-nesting bees in an urbanised biodiversity hotspot	6
Mass-flowering native species are key in the structure of an urban plant-hummingbird network	6
Scale-dependent effects of urbanization on avian diversity in a Neotropical region	6
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	6
The retrieval of food hoarded by red squirrels inhabiting an urban park	6
A review on the work of German urban biodiversity networks – from national to international activities	6
Noise attenuation varies by interactions of land cover and season in an urban/peri-urban landscape	6
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	6
Urban biotope classification incorporates urban forest and green infrastructure for improved environmental land-use planning in Mexico City	6
Vegetation regulations and upkeeping influence avifauna diversity within residential developments of Mexico City	6
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	6
Urbanisation differently affects decomposition rates of recalcitrant woody material and labile leaf litter	6
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs	6
Molluscs community as a keystone group for assessing the impact of urban sprawl at intertidal ecosystems	6
Tick infestation of birds across a gradient of urbanization intensity in the United States Great Plains	6
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	6
Effect of replacing surface with underground rubbish containers on urban House Sparrows Passer domesticus	6
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	6
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	6
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	6
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	6
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	5
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	5
Sedum as host plants for caterpillars? Introducing gut content metabarcoding to green roof research	5
Trees as a solar control measure for southern-oriented street frontages. Analysis of a selected street model for a humid continental climate	5
The use of cellular telecommunication towers as nesting sites by pied crows (Corvus albus) in an urban mosaic landscape	5
Soil unsealing in Mediterranean schoolyards: what factors drive ant communities?	5
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities	5
A core on the Atlantic margin of Europe: an urban bird assemblage in Cork City, Ireland	5
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	5
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	5
Suburban forest patches have high functional and phylogenetic diversity in bird communities	5
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	5
Arsenic speciation in soil from urban recreational parks and human health risk assessment	5
Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: impacts on riparian groundwater quality	5
Detecting the tipping point between heat source and sink landscapes to mitigate urban heat island effects	5
Effect of urbanization on individual condition of a threatened seabird: the Olrog’s Gull Larus atlanticus	5
Urban space awakening – identification and potential uses of urban pockets	5
Human-wildlife interactions: presence of the ground-nesting Spotted Thick-knee across a South African mosaic urban landscape	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
Urban patches of dry forest as refuges for ants and carabid beetles in a neotropical overcrowded city	4
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.	4
Correction: Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services	4
Urban ecology of Drosophila suzukii	4
Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams	4
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	4
Dog demography and husbandry practices facilitate dog-wildlife conflict in a suburban-forest interface	4
Higher rat abundance in greener urban areas	4
A transdisciplinary multiscaled approach to engage with green infrastructure planning, restoration and use in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	4
Valuation of ecosystem services of a nascent urban park in east Los Angeles, California	4
The distribution and abundance of woody invasive alien plants in small towns in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	4
Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae) is colonizing urban areas in Cali, Colombia	4
Initiating, innovating and accelerating edible cities. A case study based on two transition experiments in the city of Dresden (Germany)	4
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	4
Azadirachta indica A. Juss. a multi-purpose tree as a leading species in carbon stocking in two Sahelian cities of Niger	4
Reproductive differences between urban and forest birds across the years: importance of environmental and weather parameters	4
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats	4
Floristic changes of vascular flora in the city of Rome through grid-cell census over 23 years	4
Patterns and correlates in the distribution, design and management of garden ponds along an urban–rural gradient	4

Land sharing between cultivated and wild plants: urban gardens as hotspots for plant diversity in cities	4
Designing “Tiny Forests” as a lesson for transdisciplinary urban ecology learning	4
Food availability and population parameters for squirrels differ even in neighbouring urban parks	4
Evaluation of the diet of Didelphis virginiana in an urban area using stable isotopes	4
Aircraft noise modifies acoustic signals and social interactions of a microendemic frog from Mexico City	4
Exploring the ability of urban householders to correctly identify nocturnal mammals	4
Linkages between plant functional diversity and soil-based ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban vacant lots	4
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	4
Using crushed waste bricks for urban greening with contrasting grassland mixtures: no negative effects of brick-augmented substrates varying in soil type, moisture and acid pre-treatment	4
Reclaiming urban vacant land to manage stormwater and support insect habitat	4
City biodiversity index and the cities-biodiversity relationship: a case study for Sorocaba, SP, Brazil	4
Estimating the pollination supply of urban green spaces to determine suitable areas for urban agriculture in the city of Tehran	4
Species composition, distribution patterns, and conservation needs of large old trees in Baisha, southern China	4
Assessing the state of urban forests in Dédougou, a Sahel city in Burkina Faso	4
Differential response of migratory guilds of birds to park area and urbanization	4
Linking activity of common pipistrelles, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in an urbanised area with a nearby mass swarming site	4
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	3
Urbanization related changes in lepidopteran community	3
Biostimulants do not affect the performance of urban plant species grown under drought stress	3
Mapping the marginals: predicting unplanned human settlements in urban protected areas of Bogotá, Colombia	3
Bird-watching and eco-crafting bird feeders as nature-based experiential learning activities for students in urban areas	3
A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	3
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	3
Green infrastructure in cities for the achievement of the un sustainable development goals: a systematic review	3
Exposure to urban heavy metal contamination diminishes bumble bee colony growth	3
Tree insect pests and pathogens: a global systematic review of their impacts in urban areas	3
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	3
Correction to: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	3
Human recreational activity does not influence open cup avian nest survival in urban green spaces	3
Predicting burrowing owl flight trajectories in urban environments	3
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes	3
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	3
Stress tolerant species are keys to plant communities success on extensive green roof: an experimental test of CSR strategy dynamic	3
Wild sulphur-crested cockatoos match human activity rhythms to access food in the urban environment	3
The overlooked margins: how cities impact diversity of plants and terrestrial invertebrates along urban streams	3
Carbon sequestration and CO2 flux in six plant species in vertical greenery systems	3
The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens	3
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	3
Siblicide in the city: the urban heat island accelerates sibling cannibalism in the black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus)	3
The noisy neighbor conundrum: what influences the value of urban sites for forest birds?	3
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes	3
Urban nature-based solutions planning for biodiversity outcomes: human, ecological, and artificial intelligence perspectives	3
Exploring floristic patterns across urban habitats: a case study of the city of Sarajevo (Balkan Peninsula)	3
Complexities of managing invasive species in semi-urban areas: the case of free-ranging dogs in southern Iran	3
Prioritization and thresholds for managing biological invasions in urban ecosystems	3
Patterns in tree squirrel co-occurrence vary with responses to local land cover in US cities	3
Ecology with Cities	3
Are southern temperate urban natural forests a suitable habitat for beetle diversity? A case study in Chile	3
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	3
Citizen-science data identifies the daily movement patterns and habitat associations of a nocturnal urban-invading bird species (Corvus frugilegus)	3
Monitoring of mammal and bird species in an urban ecological park using environmental DNA metabarcoding	3
Understory vegetation can promote bird sounds and reduce traffic noise in urban park soundscapes	3
Response to commentary on “cues to care: future directions for ecological landscapes”	3
Looking beyond leaves: variation in nutrient leaching potential of seasonal litterfall among different species within an urban forest	3
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments	3
Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size	3
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data	3
Green space in an extremely exposed part of the city center “Aorta of Warsaw” - Case study of the urban lawn	3
The advantage of living in the city: effects of urbanization on body size and mass of native and alien squirrels	3
Potential habitat and carrying capacity of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes in an urban environment: implications for conservation and recovery	2
Small parks in residential neighborhoods as habitats for ground-dwelling beetles, spiders, and ants	2
Using social networks to explore the social flexibility of urban vervet monkeys	2
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	2
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia	2
Reptile responses to outdoor recreation in urban habitat fragments	2
A methodological framework for prioritizing habitat patches in urban ecosystems based on landscape functional connectivity	2
Predictors of tree cover in residential open space: a multi-scale analysis of suburban Philadelphia	2
Greenhouse gases and green roofs: carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in relation to substrate characteristics	2
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity	2
Habitat surrogates for plant richness as a tool for rapid biodiversity assessment in urban areas	2
Investigating potential hydrological ecosystem services in urban gardens through soil amendment experiments and hydrologic models	2
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	2
A mowing strategy for urban parks to support spring flowers in a mediterranean climate city in South Africa	2
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China	2
Urban equilibrium: legal imperatives for sustainable development and habitat preservation in Shenzhen, China	2
Distribution of trees in medieval areas of East-Central European cities ‒ regularities and peculiarities	2
Constructing ecological indices for urban environments using species distribution models	2
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system	2
Importance of feeders in the seasonal dynamics of floral resource use by hummingbirds in Mexico City	2
Correction to: Can road stormwater ponds be successfully exploited by the European green frog (Pelophylax sp.)?	2
An investigation into residents' willingness to pay for vertical greening in China	2
The University of West Florida campus ecosystem study: effects of persistent canopy openings on a chronically fire-excluded longleaf pine ecosystem	2
Comparison of taxonomic diversity, body size, mass and condition of small mammals in urban and rural areas of the Coastal Savannah Ecological Zone of Ghana	2
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?	2
Nitrogen availability and denitrification in urban agriculture and regreened vacant lots	2
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity	2
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State	2
Floral richness and seasonality influences bee and non-bee flower interactions in urban community gardens	2
First steps of pollinator-promoting interventions in Eastern European urban areas – positive outcomes, challenges, and recommendations	2
Urban eastern gray squirrels (sciurus carolinensis) show little seasonal variation in biochemical and hematological parameters	2
Optimizing plant species composition of green roofs for ecological functionality and biodiversity conservation	2
Can road stormwater ponds be successfully exploited by the European green frog (Pelophylax sp.)?	2
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	2
Urbanization decreases floral display without shifting sexual biomass allocation in Turnera subulata, a common tropical urban plant	2
How urbanization and industrialization shape breeding bird species occurrence in coastal Mediterranean oasis system	2