Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	158
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	62
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	47
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	40
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	37
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	37
Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba	36
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	33
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	31
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	31
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	30
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	30
Urban trees as biodiversity scaffolds: patterns and drivers of epiphyte diversity in a tropical city	30
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	30
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	29
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	27
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	27
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	26
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	23
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	22
Supplementary urban green infrastructure: community perceptions of trees and their benefits	22
Small but connected: assessing the contribution of civic-led hedgerow planting on landscape connectivity in periurban Paris	22
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	22
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	21
Linking activity of common pipistrelles, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in an urbanised area with a nearby mass swarming site	21

A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	20
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	18
Confluences and land cover as agents of change: habitat change modifies the movement and assemblage stability of headwater fishes	18
Correction to: Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	18
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments	17
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	17
The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens	16
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats	16
How green infrastructure change shapes regulating ecosystem services in urban landscapes? Trade-offs between urban cooling and stormwater retention in Taipei	15
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	15
Ecology with Cities	14
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	14
Valuing urban wetlands for sustainable land use: recreational services and economic insights from a travel cost framework	13
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data	13
Long-term assessment of floodplain reconnection as a stream restoration approach for managing nitrogen in ground and surface waters	13
Beyond urbanization metrics: Using graphical causal models to investigate mechanisms in urban ecology and evolution	13
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	13
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	13
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes	13
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State	13
Green infrastructure dynamics in the urban areas of subarctic Western Siberia	13
Constructing ecological corridors in response to extensive rural sprawl in a highly developed urban agglomeration	13
Trends in sika deer population in an urban–suburban area	12
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system	12
Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation	12
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon	12
A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas	12
Insect “Bee&Bees” and pollinator penthouses: teaching students about pollinators and their services in an urban environment	12
The quality inequity of the ecosystem services delivered by green spaces: evidence from 226 Urban Parks in Hangzhou, China	12
Biotic homogenisation in urban grasslands: which bird and plant species and traits are selected in urban contexts?	12
Network of interactions in a recently implemented urban pollinator garden	11
Urban yards as potential conservation space: large, diverse gardens may be valuable resource patches for butterflies	11
Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species	11
Predicting people’s motivation to engage in urban predator control	11
Unexplored source of urban biodiversity – preliminary studies on the underground channel of the Brzoza River (Łódź, Central Poland)	11
Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments	11
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization	11
Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides	11
Where the risk is more intense: riparian forests keep the euglossine bees community most affected by anthropic disturbance in the Caatinga dry forest	10
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas	10
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river	10
Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China	10
Priorities, concerns, and potential compromises amongst urban forest stakeholders: international lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity	10
Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability	10
Integrated geospatial assessment of human footprint impact on regulating ecosystem services in the Himalayan urban landscape	10
Propagation of inflowing urban stormwater pulses through reservoir embayments	10
Plant performance analysis of biofacades in a hot, arid Region of Qatar	10
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city	10
Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition	10

Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation	9
Limited effects of short-term nutrient enrichment or abrupt light changes on daytime periphyton nutrient uptake in urban streams	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
Resilience assessment and spatial optimization of urban ecological network based on complex network theory and PLUS model	9
Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China	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
Bird community responses to urbanization and vegetation parameters across the city of Salzburg, Austria	9
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
Intra-urban spatial heterogeneity of autumn leaf senescence: effects of land-use composition on tree phenology in Wuhan, China	9
Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations	9
Lizard community structure and spatial resource use along a forest-savannah-urban habitat gradient in the Dahomey Gap (West Africa)	9
Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents	8
Floral species evenness is the major driver of wild bee communities in urban gardens	8
Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds	8
Assessing urban-heating impact on street tree growth in Berlin with open inventory and environmental data	8
The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration	8
The response of avian chewing lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) loads to early-1900s urbanization in the Western United States	8
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	8
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	8
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	8
Patch-level floral diversity and structural complexity drive differences in bumblebee richness and composition across different urban green space types	8
Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions	8
Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes	8
Projected climate-driven shifts in urban forest suitability across Brazilian biomes	8
Exploring plant functional diversity and ecological dynamics in urban forests: insights from Metropolitan Manila	8
Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient	8
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	8
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	8
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	8
Urban biodiversity and design in time of (post)pandemics: research perspectives from URBIO international network	8
Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments	8
Spatiotemporal use of urban rivers by local bat populations in a large city (Cracow, Southern Poland)	8
Identifying the factors that influence raccoon (Procyon lotor) and southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) use of stormwater sewer systems	8
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	8
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands	8
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	8
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city	8
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	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
Woody plant diversity in mosque courtyards: a comparative study of pre- and post-republic periods	7
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	7
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	7
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes	7
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	7
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	7
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	7
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	7
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	7
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	7
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	7
Lizards in the megalopolis: urbanization decreases lizard sperm fertility	7
Drivers of woody plant phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity across an urban density gradient	7
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	7
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces	7
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	7
Rethinking land use in cities: the ecological role of urban golf courses in forest and air quality management	7
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	7
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city	7
Anuran assemblage in a rapidly urbanizing City in South Asia	7
Author Correction: Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City	6
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	6
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity	6
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	6
Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience	6
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	6
Understanding collaborative governance of biodiversity-inclusive urban planning: Methodological approach and benchmarking results for urban nature plans in 10 European cities	6
Endozoochorous seed dispersal in urban ecosystems: a global review of patterns, interactions, and knowledge gaps	6
Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	6
Evaluation of climate justice in open green spaces based on landscape metrics: the case of Istanbul	6
Evaluating the driving factors of the environmental injustice caused by the spatial mismatch of ecosystem services in mega cities in China	6
Differences between urban and natural populations of dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion damaranum): a case of urban warfare?	6
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity	6
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China	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
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability	6
Characteristics of the urban sewer system and rat presence in Seattle	6
Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection	6
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	6

Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	6
Pollination and pest control in urban agriculture: a systematic review of the species associated with beneficial services	6
Correlation does not imply causation: decline of house sparrow overshadowed by electromagnetic radiation	6
Author Correction: Molluscs community as a keystone group for assessing the impact of urban sprawl at intertidal ecosystems	6
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	6
The luxury effect in urban aquatic ecosystems: exploring drivers of change	6
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions	6
Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of multiple herbivore mammalian species space use in a fragmented urban landscape in India	6
High modularity of plant-pollinator interactions in an urban garden is driven by phenological continuity and flower morphology	6
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?	6
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	6
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	6
Seasonal variation of biochemical and morphological traits of selected tree species in polluted urban areas of Delhi City	6
Room for rent: how habitat and materials influence the use of insect nesting boxes	6
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	6