Urban biodiversity and landscape ecology: patterns, processes and planning

BA Norton, KL Evans, PH Warren - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2016 - Springer
Effective planning for biodiversity in cities and towns is increasingly important as urban
areas and their human populations grow, both to achieve conservation goals and because …

Systematic review of household water conservation interventions using the information–motivation–behavioral skills model

PJ Ehret, HE Hodges, C Kuehl, C Brick… - Environment and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Increasing droughts and water shortages are intensifying the need for residential water
conservation. We identify and classify 24 water conservation studies using the information …

Municipal regulation of residential landscapes across US cities: Patterns and implications for landscape sustainability

KL Larson, R Andrade, KC Nelson, MM Wheeler… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Local regulations on residential landscapes (yards and gardens) can facilitate or constrain
ecosystem services and disservices in cities. To our knowledge, no studies have undertaken …

Socio‐psychological factors, beyond knowledge, predict people's engagement in pollinator conservation

JL Knapp, BB Phillips, J Clements, RF Shaw… - People and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nature conservation often depends on the behaviour of individuals, which can be driven by
socio‐psychological factors such as a person's attitude, knowledge and identity. Despite …

Examining the potential to expand wildlife-supporting residential yards and gardens

KL Larson, SB Lerman, KC Nelson, DL Narango… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has demonstrated that residential yards can provide important habitat for urban
birds, pollinators, and other wildlife. In addition, the motivations and constraints underlying …

How can residents protect and promote pollinators? The diffusion of residential pollinator-friendly gardening

CJ Silvert, C Gusto, LA Warner, JM Diaz… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urbanization and land use change are leading causes of declines in pollinator abundance
and diversity. However, researchers in different regions of the world have found that some …

Predicting the assembly of novel communities in urban ecosystems

R Andrade, J Franklin, KL Larson, CM Swan… - Landscape …, 2021 - Springer
Context Ecological communities in urban ecosystems are assembled through ecological
processes, such as species interactions, dispersal, and environmental filtering, but also …

Place-making in the Corn Belt: The productivist landscapes of the “good farmer”

B Leitschuh, WP Stewart, CJ van Riper - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the end of the second World War, the landscapes of the US Corn Belt have
increasingly been dominated by large-scale, industrialized agricultural production. Although …

Barriers to building wildlife-inclusive cities: Insights from the deliberations of urban ecologists, urban planners and landscape designers

CAM Kay, AT Rohnke, HA Sander, T Stankowich… - 2022 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Barriers to building wildlife‐inclusive cities: Insights from the deliberations of
urban ecologists, urban planners Page 1 People and Nature. 2021;00:1–9. | 1 …

Evolving systems of pro-environmental behavior among wildscape gardeners

MS Jones, TL Teel, J Solomon, J Weiss - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021 - Elsevier
Cities are important sites for encouraging more widespread adoption of pro-environmental
behaviors (PEB) that benefit humans and wildlife alike. Wildsca**, a type of stewardship …