The world is urbanising rapidly, and it is predicted that by 2050, 66% of the global human
population will be living in urban areas. Urbanisation is characterised by land-use changes …

Around the world the development and growth of cities and towns are having a significant
impact on local and global biodiversity. There is growing interest in the adaptation of …

Food availability is a primary driver of avian population regulation. However, few studies
have considered the effects of what is essentially a massive supplementary feeding …

Children nowadays, particularly in urban areas, are more disconnected from nature than
ever before, leading to a large-scale “extinction of experience” with the natural world. Yet …

Alternation between day and night is a predictable environmental fluctuation that organisms
use to time their activities. Since the invention of artificial lighting, this predictability has been …

Emerging evidence that cities drive micro-evolution raises the question of whether rapid
urbanization of Earth might impact ecosystems by causing systemic changes in functional …

Urbanization, one of the most important anthropogenic impacts on Earth, is rapidly
expanding worldwide. This expansion of urban land‐covered areas is known to significantly …

Urbanization can have marked effects on plant and animal populations' phenology,
population size, predator–prey, interactions and reproductive success. These aspects are …

Climate change and urbanisation are among the most pervasive and rapidly growing threats
to biodiversity worldwide. However, their impacts are usually considered in isolation, and …

The rapid urbanization of the world has profound effects on global biodiversity, and
urbanization has been counted among the processes contributing to the homogenization of …