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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions	53
The relationship between pollinator community and pollination services is mediated by floral abundance in urban landscapes	32
Butterfly species’ responses to urbanization: differing effects of human population density and built-up area	31
Noise and tree species richness modulate the bird community inhabiting small public urban green spaces of a Neotropical city	30
Conceptualizing social-ecological drivers of change in urban forest patches	29
Plant-pollinator networks in Australian urban bushland remnants are not structurally equivalent to those in residential gardens	24
More losses than gains in ground-nesting bees over 60 years of urbanization	24
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	24
An avian urban morphotype: how the city environment shapes great tit morphology at different life stages	21
Urban ecosystems and ecosystem services in megacity Dhaka: mapping and inventory analysis	21
The effect of urban green roof design on beetle biodiversity	20
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	20
Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment	20
Green space networks as natural infrastructures in PERI-URBAN areas	19
Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city	19
Ecology with Cities	19
Impacts of the remnant sizes, forest types, and landscape patterns of surrounding areas on woody plant diversity of urban remnant forest patches	19
Urbanization alters the abundance and composition of predator communities and leads to aphid outbreaks on urban trees	18
Microclimate in an urban park and its influencing factors: a case study of Tiantan Park in Beijing, China	17
‘Urban biocultural diversity’ as a framework for human–nature interactions: reflections from a Brazilian favela	17
Vegetation structure drives taxonomic diversity and functional traits of birds in urban private native forest fragments	17
Litter decomposition and infiltration capacities in soils of different tropical urban land covers	17
Impacts of strengthened warming by urban heat island on carbon sequestration of urban ecosystems in a subtropical city of China	17
Influence of environmental factors on bird diversity in greenspaces in an Amazonian city	16
‘Stray appetites’: a socio-ecological analysis of free-ranging dogs living alongside human communities in Bangalore, India	16

Analysis of cat diet across an urbanisation gradient	15
How do heat and flood risk drive residential green infrastructure implementation in Phoenix, Arizona?	15
Coproduction of place and knowledge for ecology with the city	15
Land sharing between cultivated and wild plants: urban gardens as hotspots for plant diversity in cities	15
Diet, ecological role and potential ecosystem services of the fruit bat, Cynopterus brachyotis, in a tropical city	15
What’s in a yardscape? A case study of emergent ecosystem services and disservices within resident yardscape discourses in Minnesota	14
Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany	14
Investigating temporal and spatial correlates of the sharp decline of an urban exploiter bird in a large European city	14
The contribution of urban community gardens to food availability in Emfuleni Local Municipality, Gauteng Province	14
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	14
Understanding foraging flexibility in urban vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus pygerythrus, for the benefit of human-wildlife coexistence	14
Species-specific breeding habitat association of declining farmland birds within urban environments: conservation implications	13
Reproductive patterns of solitary cavity-nesting bees responsive to both local and landscape factors	13
Living in the concrete jungle: a review and socio-ecological perspective of urban raptor habitat quality in Europe	13
Habitat patch size and tree species richness shape the bird community in urban green spaces of rapidly urbanizing Himalayan foothill region of India	13
Vacant lot soil degradation and mowing frequency shape communities of belowground invertebrates and urban spontaneous vegetation	13
Grasslands provide diverse opportunities for bird species along an urban-rural gradient	13
Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta, China: response to urbanizing variation	13
Long-term assessment of floodplain reconnection as a stream restoration approach for managing nitrogen in ground and surface waters	13
Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City	12
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia	12
Urban ecosystem services in strategic planning in Swedish municipalities	12
Investigating potential hydrological ecosystem services in urban gardens through soil amendment experiments and hydrologic models	12
Reap what you sow: local plant composition mediates bumblebee foraging patterns within urban garden landscapes	12
Moth assemblages within urban domestic gardens respond positively to habitat complexity, but only at a scale that extends beyond the garden boundary	12
Seasonal variation in habitat use, daily routines and interactions with humans by urban-dwelling gulls	12
The interaction of imperviousness and habitat heterogeneity drives bird richness patterns in south Asian cities	11
Greenspace sites conserve taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in an urbanized landscape in the Brazilian Cerrado	11
Effect of urbanization on the dynamics of ecosystem services: An analysis for decision making in Kolkata urban agglomeration	11
How to plan urban green space in cold regions of China to achieve the best cooling efficiency	11
Interactive effects of urbanization and year on invasive and native ant diversity of sacred groves of South India	11
Tolerance and avoidance of urban cover in a southern California suburban raptor community over five decades	11
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	10
The diet of coyotes and red foxes in Southern New York	10
An improved method for the identification and setting of ecological corridors in urbanized areas	10
Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams	10
What Happens on Islands, doesn’t Stay on Islands: Patterns of Synchronicity in Mosquito Nuisance and Host-Seeking Activity between a Mangrove Island and Adjacent Coastal Development	10
The Joy of birds: the effect of rating for joy or counting garden bird species on wellbeing, anxiety, and nature connection	10
Influence of urbanization on the avian species-area relationship: insights from the breeding birds of Rome	10
Urbanization does not affect green space bird species richness in a mid-sized city	9
Urban colonies are more resistant to a trace metal than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	9
Anthropogenic factors influence the occupancy of an invasive carnivore in a suburban preserve system	9
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	9
Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity	9
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability	9
Urban open spaces from a dispersal perspective: lessons from an individual-based model approach to assess the effects of landscape patterns on the viability of wildlife populations	9
Caterpillar survival in the city: attack rates on model lepidopteran larvae along an urban-rural gradient show no increase in predation with increasing urban intensity	9
The effect of artificial light at night on the biomass of caterpillars feeding in urban tree canopies	9
Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities	9
Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: impacts on riparian groundwater quality	9

Woodland fragments in urban landscapes are important bat areas: an example of the endangered Bechstein’s bat Myotis bechsteinii	8
Phase II MS4 challenges: moving toward effective stormwater management for small municipalities	8
Greenhouse gases and green roofs: carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in relation to substrate characteristics	8
Anthropogenic noise and atmospheric absorption of sound induce amplitude shifts in the songs of Southern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon musculus)	8
Estimates of energy partitioning, evapotranspiration, and net ecosystem exchange of CO2 for an urban lawn and a tallgrass prairie in the Denver metropolitan area under contrasting conditions	8
More than noise: light, moon phase, and singing behavior in a passerine	8
Urban tree growth models for two nearby cities show notable differences	8
Floristic diversity and correlates of naturalization of alien flora in urban green spaces of Srinagar city	8
The role of woodpeckers (family: Picidae) as ecosystem engineers in urban parks: a case study in the city of Madrid (Spain)	8
Raining feral cats and dogs? Implications for the conservation of medium-sized wild mammals in an urban protected area	8
Population increase and synurbization of the yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis in some wooded areas of Warsaw agglomeration, Poland, in the years 1983–2018	8
The effect of artificial light on bat richness and nocturnal soundscapes along an urbanization gradient in an arid landscape of central Peru	8
Siblicide in the city: the urban heat island accelerates sibling cannibalism in the black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus)	8
Population estimates of non-native rose-ringed parakeets Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) in the Durban Metropole, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	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	7
The University of West Florida campus ecosystem study: the college/university campus as a unit for study of the ecology of longleaf pine	7
Chicago’s fish assemblage over ~30 years – more fish and more native species	7
Distribution and diet of recovering Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) along the natural-to-urban habitat gradient (river Segura, SE Spain)	7
Living in a tropical concrete jungle: diversity and abundance variation in a parrot assemblage (Aves, Psittacidae) of a major Amazonian city	7
Exposure to urban heavy metal contamination diminishes bumble bee colony growth	7
Spatial video remote sensing for urban vegetation mapping using vegetation indices	7
Probabilistic modeling of sustainable urban drainage systems	7
Expanding catchment-scale hydrologic restoration in suburban watersheds via stream mitigation crediting—A Northern Kentucky (USA) case study	7
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)	7
Designing and managing biodiverse streetscapes: key lessons from the City of Melbourne	7
Wetland plant community variation across replicate urban to rural gradients: non-native species as both drivers and passengers in systems impacted by anthropogenic land-use	7
Plant diversity increases in an urban wildland after four decades of unaided vegetation development in a post-industrial site	7
A spatial and temporal assessment of human-snake encounters in urban and peri-urban areas of Windhoek, Namibia	7
Cues to care: future directions for ecological landscapes	7
Landscape Context Influences the Abundance and Richness of Native Lady Beetles Occupying Urban Vacant Land	7
Carrion increases pollination service across an urban gradient	7
Prioritization and thresholds for managing biological invasions in urban ecosystems	7
Stream restoration milestones: monitoring scales determine successes and failures	6
Investigating and predicting Land Surface Temperature (LST) based on remotely sensed data during 1987–2030 (A case study of Reykjavik city, Iceland)	6
The resilient frugivorous fauna of an urban forest fragment and its potential role in vegetation enrichment	6
Potential habitat and carrying capacity of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes in an urban environment: implications for conservation and recovery	6
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	6
Street-level green spaces support a key urban population of the threatened Hispaniolan parakeet Psittacara chloropterus	6
An unexpected presence in urban environment: factors governing occurrence of the vulnerable European turtle-dove (Streptopelia turtur) in the city of Rabat, Morocco	6
Response of plant diversity of urban remnant mountains to surrounding urban spatial morphology: a case study in Guiyang of Guizhou Province, China	6
The phenology of the endangered Nogal (Juglans neotropica Diels) in Bogota and its conservation implications in the urban forest	6
A sustainable urban regeneration project to protect biodiversity	6
Looking beyond leaves: variation in nutrient leaching potential of seasonal litterfall among different species within an urban forest	6
Public perception of urban wildlife during a COVID-19 stay-at-home quarantine order in Chicago	6
Multiscale drivers of amphibian community occupancy in urban ponds	6
Vegetation management and benthic macroinvertebrate communities in urban stormwater ponds: implications for regional biodiversity	6
Noise attenuation varies by interactions of land cover and season in an urban/peri-urban landscape	6
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	6
Forest structure and anthropogenic disturbances regulate plant invasion in urban forests	5
No overall effect of urbanization on nest-dwelling arthropods of great tits (Parus major).	5
Using the dendro-climatological signal of urban trees as a measure of urbanization and urban heat island	5
The relationship between landscape features and domestic species on the occupancy of native mammals in urban forests	5
The impact of different tree planting strategies on ecosystem services and disservices in the piazzas of a northern Italian city	5
Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study	5
Floral richness and seasonality influences bee and non-bee flower interactions in urban community gardens	5
Spread of the invasive Javan myna along an urban–suburban gradient in Peninsular Malaysia	5
Effect of replacing surface with underground rubbish containers on urban House Sparrows Passer domesticus	5
Demographic drivers of Norway rat populations from urban slums in Brazil	5
Soil chemical properties in forest patches across multiple spatiotemporal scales in mid-Atlantic U.S. metropolitan areas	5
Are vascular epiphytes in urban green areas subject to the homogenization of biodiversity? A case study in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	5
Sustainable landscaping programs in the United States and their potential to encourage conservation and support ecosystem services	5
Shrinking into the big city: influence of genetic and environmental factors on urban dragon lizard morphology and performance capacity	5
Bright lights, big city: an experimental assessment of short-term behavioral and performance effects of artificial light at night on Anolis lizards	5
Comparison of the mustard oil and electrical methods for sampling earthworm communities in rural and urban soils	5
Develop a public response model of soundscape for urban landscape garden parks	5
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards	5
Venerable trees of tropical Chinese Wuzhishan city: Distribution patterns and drivers	5
Breeding performance is explained for coloniality and phenology but not for urbanization in a generalist raptor bird	5
Patterns in macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness and community assembly among urban wetlands in Cape Town, South Africa: implications for wetland management	5
Urbanization affects the richness of invasive alien trees but has limited influence on species composition	5
Who is abuzz about bees? Explaining residents’ attitudes in Phoenix, Arizona	5
Wastewater treatment plant effluent inputs influence the temporal variability of nutrient uptake in an intermittent stream	5
Response of urban tree DBH to fast urbanization: Case of coastal Zhanjiang in south China	5
Comparisons of flux-based stemflow enrichment ratios for two Quercus spp. within the megalopolis of the eastern USA	5
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	5