Drivers of arthropod biodiversity in an urban ecosystem

JMM Lewthwaite, TM Baiotto, BV Brown, YY Cheung… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Our world is becoming increasingly urbanized with a growing human population
concentrated around cities. The expansion of urban areas has important consequences for …

Sub-parcel scale analysis is needed to capture socially-driven canopy cover change in Baltimore, MD

DH Locke, A Ossola, JP Schmit, JM Grove - Landscape and Urban …, 2025 - Elsevier
Urban tree canopy (UTC) cover is rarely distributed equitably across social groups, space,
and time. Over the past 20 years, research on the social, spatial, and temporal dynamics of …

Contrasting luxury effect on urban plant phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity in West African cities

EBO Ahouand**ou, OG Gaoue, MA Olutoye… - Ecosystems and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Urbanization is a driving factor for biodiversity loss and potential climate change by reducing
carbon stocks. Understanding how urban development, as mitigated by socio-economic …

[HTML][HTML] The public–private divide and seasonal variation shape bird diversity in greenspaces of two neighboring midwestern USA cities

HS Pollock, CJ van Riper, DJ Goodson… - Landscape and Urban …, 2024 - Elsevier
Greenspaces are increasingly valued for supporting biodiversity in urbanized landscapes.
Previous research efforts have emphasized the importance of public land such as parks and …

The way “urbanization” is defined has strong implications for its effects on mammal abundance

MKP Poisson, F Gebresenbet, AR Butler, P Tate… - Urban …, 2024 - Springer
It is now well-recognized that urbanization strongly impacts wildlife communities and
populations. However, we typically do not know which feature (s) affect individual species …

Addressing the sustainable urbanism paradox: tip** points for the operational reconciliation of dense and green morphologies

T Boutreux, M Bourgeois, A Bellec… - npj Urban …, 2024 - nature.com
To improve biodiversity and human living conditions in the Anthropocene, urban forms must
reconcile density with vegetation to meet the dual sustainability-liveability challenge. This …

Attributes of private yards along a rural-urban gradient in China highlight opportunities and limits to increase trees to benefit biodiversity and climate

A Zhang, MJ Grose, PA Vesk - Urban Ecosystems, 2025 - Springer
Private residential yards are an important component of urban green space and a major
contributor to the urban environment. Trees in private yards provide physical and …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of the Condition of the Human Habitat Ecosystem in Anhui Province and Regional Spatial and Temporal Distribution Study.

H Luo, Y Guo - Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 2024 - pjoes.com
Due to the increasingly serious problems of China's human habitat ecosystem, on the basis
of PESTEL paradigm, this study develops a human habitat ecological environment …

A study of New Zealanders motivations towards increasing native backyard planting

M Burfoot, S Budha-Magar… - Urbanization …, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose Urban backyards hold both aesthetic and practical value, offering significant
potential for native biodiversity conservation within cities. Homeowners, as the primary …

Potential for Biodiversity in Shared Residential Yards

H Livne, M Gruntman, E Blumenfeld Lieberthal - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
In urban environments, attention has traditionally been paid to public open spaces.
However, private open spaces constitute a significant percentage of the urban area and can …