[HTML][HTML] Urbanization driving changes in plant species and communities–A global view

R de Barros Ruas, LMS Costa, F Bered - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
The urban landscape is becoming the environment most familiar to most of humanity, which
has consequences for society, the environment, and biodiversity. Here, we present a …

Human disturbance has contrasting effects on niche partitioning within carnivore communities

A Sévêque, LK Gentle, JV López‐Bao… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Among species, coexistence is driven partly by the partitioning of available resources. The
mechanisms of coexistence and competition among species have been a central topic …

Negative effects of urbanization on terrestrial arthropod communities: A meta‐analysis

MS Fenoglio, MR Rossetti… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Urbanization is one of the most significant anthropogenic alterations of the surface of
the Earth and constitutes a major threat to biodiversity at the global level. Arthropods are a …

[LLIBRE][B] Tourism and resilience: Individual, organisational and destination perspectives

CM Hall, G Prayag, A Amore - 2017 - books.google.com
This book is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the
broader resilience literature. The volume takes a multi-scaled approach to examine …

Urbanization drives cross‐taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales

E Piano, C Souffreau, T Merckx… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing urbanization process is hypothesized to drastically alter (semi‐) natural
environments with a concomitant major decline in species abundance and diversity. Yet …

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

T Merckx, C Souffreau, A Kaiser, LF Baardsen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Body size is intrinsically linked to metabolic rate and life-history traits, and is a crucial
determinant of food webs and community dynamics,. The increased temperatures …

Generalists are the most urban‐tolerant of birds: a phylogenetically controlled analysis of ecological and life history traits using a novel continuous measure of bird …

CT Callaghan, RE Major, JH Wilshire, JM Martin… - Oikos, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying which ecological and life history traits influence a species' tolerance to
urbanization is critical to understanding the trajectory of biodiversity in an increasingly …

Understanding the relation between urbanization and the eco-environment in China's Yangtze River Delta using an improved EKC model and coupling analysis

Y Zhao, S Wang, C Zhou - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Better understanding the relationship between urbanization (U) and the eco-environment (E)
is necessary to coordinate the development of them. Using a comprehensive index system …

Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review

N Schwarz, M Moretti, MN Bugalho, ZG Davies… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
Positive relationships between biodiversity and urban ecosystem services (UES) are widely
implied within both the scientific and policy literatures, along with the tacit suggestion that …

Massively introduced managed species and their consequences for plant–pollinator interactions

B Geslin, B Gauzens, M Baude, I Dajoz… - Advances in ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the rise of agriculture, human populations have domesticated plant and animal
species to fulfil their needs. With modern agriculture, a limited number of these species has …