Urban Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	131
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	53
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	40
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	34
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	32
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	29
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	29
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	29
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	28
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	27
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	26
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	26
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	25
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	24
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	21
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	21
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	21
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	21
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	21
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	20
Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba	20
Rescue data as an alternative for assessing trends and phenological changes in two invasive parakeet species	19
Insect pollinator and natural enemy communities in green roof and ground-level urban habitats	19
Seasonal patterns of native plant cover and leaf trait variation on New York City green roofs	19
A deep dive into the waterbird community of an urban oasis: implications for park management	19

A matter of connection: the importance of habitat networks for endangered butterflies in anthropogenic landscapes	18
Supplementary urban green infrastructure: community perceptions of trees and their benefits	17
Connection beyond borders: exploring sense of belonging across urban satellites conurbed by a medium-sized Mexican city	16
Anthropogenic light pollution is associated with diel patterns of fledging in an urban adapted songbird	16
Diversity of raptors and nest sites characteristics in an urban area in Southern Chile	15
Linking activity of common pipistrelles, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in an urbanised area with a nearby mass swarming site	15
The effects of urbanization on functional dispersion of plant reproductive traits in Cerrado fragments	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 impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens	14
Confluences and land cover as agents of change: habitat change modifies the movement and assemblage stability of headwater fishes	14
Ecology with Cities	14
Investigating the impacts of humans and dogs on the spatial and temporal activity of wildlife in urban woodlands	14
Environmental factors influencing ground-nesting bee communities in an urban landscape: implications for conservation	13
Small but connected: assessing the contribution of civic-led hedgerow planting on landscape connectivity in periurban Paris	13
Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data	13
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system	13
A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas	13
Estimates of wildlife species richness, occupancy, and habitat preference in a residential landscape in New York State	13
Constructing ecological corridors in response to extensive rural sprawl in a highly developed urban agglomeration	12
Insect “Bee&Bees” and pollinator penthouses: teaching students about pollinators and their services in an urban environment	12
A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study	12
Citizen science in cities: an overview of projects focused on urban Australia	12
Green infrastructure dynamics in the urban areas of subarctic Western Siberia	11
Assessing the contribution of lawns and semi-natural meadows to bee, wasp, and flower fly communities across different landscapes	11
Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability	11
Propagation of inflowing urban stormwater pulses through reservoir embayments	11
Spatially explicit subpixel-based study on the expansion of impervious surfaces and its impacts on soil organic carbon	11
Valuing urban wetlands for sustainable land use: recreational services and economic insights from a travel cost framework	11
Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance species	11
Long-term assessment of floodplain reconnection as a stream restoration approach for managing nitrogen in ground and surface waters	11
The quality inequity of the ecosystem services delivered by green spaces: evidence from 226 Urban Parks in Hangzhou, China	11
Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city	11
Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity	10
Analysis of urban carbon metabolism from the land use perspective: a case study of Nanchang, China	10
Grass fields play a greater role in maintaining avian biodiversity in urban landscapes than roadsides	10
Urban yards as potential conservation space: large, diverse gardens may be valuable resource patches for butterflies	10
Urban bird assemblages in India: the role of traffic, greenspaces, and dietary traits in shaping community composition	10
Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization	10
Trends in sika deer population in an urban–suburban area	10
Exploring perceptions of marine and terrestrial bird species and the satisfaction of their presence in coastal urban environments	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
Predicting people’s motivation to engage in urban predator control	10
Plant performance analysis of biofacades in a hot, arid Region of Qatar	10
Limited effects of short-term nutrient enrichment or abrupt light changes on daytime periphyton nutrient uptake in urban streams	9
Policy-making for peri-urban landscapes as arenas of human-wildlife interactions	9
Urban ecology and biological studies in Brazilian cities: a systematic review	9
City dwellers’ experiences and attitudes towards wild places based on an urban river	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

Intra-urban spatial heterogeneity of autumn leaf senescence: effects of land-use composition on tree phenology in Wuhan, China	9
Lizard community structure and spatial resource use along a forest-savannah-urban habitat gradient in the Dahomey Gap (West Africa)	9
Mapping potential surpluses, deficits, and mismatches of ecosystem services supply and demand for urban areas	9
High species turnover shapes anuran community composition in ponds along an urban-rural gradient	9
Spatiotemporal use of urban rivers by local bat populations in a large city (Cracow, Southern Poland)	9
Macrophyte life forms shape macroinvertebrate composition more than richness: implications for urban stream wetland conservation	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
Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study	9
Assessing urban-heating impact on street tree growth in Berlin with open inventory and environmental data	9
Numeric response of a neotropical raptor to urbanization gradient in central Argentina	9
Bird community responses to urbanization and vegetation parameters across the city of Salzburg, Austria	8
Identifying the factors that influence raccoon (Procyon lotor) and southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) use of stormwater sewer systems	8
Bee community response to multiple stressors along a tropical urban-peri urban gradient	8
The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city	8
The relationship between basin urbanization and ecosystem services in China: a case study of Central China (CC) urban agglomeration	8
Urbanization affects the richness of invasive alien trees but has limited influence on species composition	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
Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: an assessment of gaps and recommendations	8
Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes	8
Comparing perceived risk of predation in urban birds	8
Wildlife mortality on the Slovenian highways: monthly patterns, identification of hotspots and effectiveness of acoustic deterrents	8
Unraveling the interplay between seasonal variations in macroinvertebrates and microplastics in urban stream sediments	8
Floral species evenness is the major driver of wild bee communities in urban gardens	7
College squirrels gone wild? Using Sciurus carolinensis behavior to assess the ecosystem value of urban green spaces	7
Urban scavenging: vertebrates display greater sensitivity to land-cover and garden vegetation cover than invertebrates	7
A method of linking functional and structural connectivity analysis in urban green infrastructure network construction	7
Complexity and spatial structuring of fish communities across urbanized watersheds and waterfronts	7
An urban rivers renaissance? Stream restoration and green–blue infrastructure in Latin America – Insights from urban planning in Colombia	7
Effects of urban, peri-urban and rural land covers on plant functional traits around Bogotá, Colombia	7
Soil microbial community changes in response to the environmental gradients of urbanization in Guangzhou City	7
Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity	7
The use of geotechnologies for the identification of the urban flora in the city of Teresina, Brazil	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
How many bees fit in the city? A spatial ecological case study to conserve urban wild bees	7
Avian species richness in cities: A review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of South America	7
The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands	7
The response of avian chewing lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) loads to early-1900s urbanization in the Western United States	7
How the landscape pattern and landscape elements affect the source-based soundscape diversity	7
Morphological differences along a chronological gradient of urbanisation in an endemic insectivorous bird of New Zealand	7
Towards a conceptual design framework for bee botanic gardens: integrating perceptions on urban biodiversity into landscape design processes	7
Correction to: The diversity and nesting preferences of birds along an urban-rural gradient in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	7
Intraspecific diversity of multiple plant species shows no change across an urbanization gradient	7
Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape	7
Correction to: Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	7
Using citizen science data to investigate annual survival rates of resident birds in relation to noise and light pollution	6
Fern spores: neglected airborne bioparticles threatening human health in urban environments	6
Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures	6
Species-specific evaluation of growth and environmental tolerance for ecosystem services – evaluation from a botanic tree collection	6
Home ranges of box turtles in a rural woodland and an urban park in Saint Louis, MO; implications for turtle conservation	6
High modularity of plant-pollinator interactions in an urban garden is driven by phenological continuity and flower morphology	6
Landscape naturalness and restoring benefit: a connection through bird diversity	6
Assessment of ecological environment quality in Kolkata urban agglomeration, India	6
Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions	6
Management is more important than urban landscape parameters in shaping orthopteran assemblages across green infrastructure in a metropole	6
Drivers of woody plant phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity across an urban density gradient	6
A core on the Atlantic margin of Europe: an urban bird assemblage in Cork City, Ireland	6
Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover	6
A multivariate approach for discriminating homegardens in different agro-ecological regions	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
Room for rent: how habitat and materials influence the use of insect nesting boxes	6
Urban trawling bats depend on green and blue space in a subtropical city: implications for urban planning and climate change resilience	6
Mammalian functional diversity and trait responses to anthropogenic and environmental factors across the contiguous USA	6
Is it only the hood, or also the neighbour? Bat occupancy and community drivers in heterogeneous urban landscapes	6
A tale of two worlds: spatial arrangement of avian communities in a Neotropical city	6
Response to commentary on “cues to care: future directions for ecological landscapes”	6
Beyond the front yard: investigating environmental drivers of residential snake removals across two spatial scales in a desert city	6
Belowground sensors capture spatiotemporal variation in urban heat island effect	6
Green in times of COVID-19: urban green space relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires City	6
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo?	6
Carnivore coexistence in Chicago: niche partitioning of coyotes and red foxes	6
Characteristics of the urban sewer system and rat presence in Seattle	6
Contributions of urban green and blue spaces on local-scale climate in the core area of Beijing, China	6
Differences between urban and natural populations of dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion damaranum): a case of urban warfare?	5
The effect of root shaving and biostimulant application on the transplant success of six common Australian urban tree species	5
Comment on the paper “Citizens’ perceptions and willingness to pay for urban beekeeping: a case study in Northern Italy” by Notaro et al. (2025)	5
Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity	5
Author Correction: Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City	5
New native species for extensive green roofs to enrich urban ecosystem services in semiarid regions	5

Invertebrate diversity in peri-urban community gardens and possible mechanisms of community assemblage	5
Urban heat and desert wildlife: rodent body condition across a gradient of surface temperatures	5
Legacy effects of housing segregation on urban mammal communities in Washington, D.C., USA	5
The effect of artificial light on bat richness and nocturnal soundscapes along an urbanization gradient in an arid landscape of central Peru	5
Evaluating the driving factors of the environmental injustice caused by the spatial mismatch of ecosystem services in mega cities in China	5
Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	5
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions	5
The luxury effect in urban aquatic ecosystems: exploring drivers of change	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
Spatial ecology of crested porcupine in a metropolitan landscape	5
Reassessing the role of herbivores on urban coral reefs: A case study from a heavily impacted reef near Cartagena Bay, Colombia	5
Foxes at your front door? Habitat selection and home range estimation of suburban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)	5
Crypsis in a polymorphic mammal along an urbanization gradient	5
Urbanization affects web abundance and aggregation of a funnel-weaving spider, Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Agelenidae)	5
Decreased functional dispersal traits of spontaneous plants in urban areas	5
When scale matters to disentangle the effect of habitat and temperature on ground-dwelling spider communities in urban environments	5
High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity	5
The effect of urbanization and behavioral factors on coyote net displacement and its implications for seed dispersal	5
Urban growth and heat islands: A case study in micro-territories for urban sustainability	5
Exploring the connection between transdisciplinary co-production and urban sustainability solutions: a case study at an urban stream management symposium	5
Cultivar blends: A strategy for creating more resilient warm season turfgrass lawns	5
Correlation does not imply causation: decline of house sparrow overshadowed by electromagnetic radiation	5
Evaluation of climate justice in open green spaces based on landscape metrics: the case of Istanbul	5
Author Correction: Molluscs community as a keystone group for assessing the impact of urban sprawl at intertidal ecosystems	5
Detecting nestedness in city parks for urban biodiversity conservation	5