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 …

At least 87% of angiosperm species require animal vectors for their reproduction, while more
than two-thirds of major global food crops depend on zoogamous pollination. Pollinator …

Mountains in western China, hosted rich biodiversity and millions of people and inhabitant
with vital ecosystem services, had experienced the most serious biodiversity loss with fragile …

Cities support unique and valuable ecological communities, but understanding urban
wildlife is limited due to the difficulties of assessing biodiversity. Ecoacoustic surveying is a …

Mitigating the effects of urban expansion on habitat with high conservation value depends
largely on national and sub-national governance that can effectively shape urban growth …

Urban neighborhood green spaces provide ecosystem services important for sustainable
and resilient cities. We examine public preferences for these ecosystem services by …

Introduction A major goal for conservation planning is the prioritized protection and
management of areas that harbor maximal biodiversity. However, such spatial prioritization …

There is an emerging consensus that the health of the planet depends on the coexistence
between rapidly growing cities and the natural world. One strategy for guiding cities towards …

Since microclimate regulation is one of the most important services of vegetation that is
directly perceived by urban population, many studies aimed to evaluate and map this …

Urban biodiversity offers important benefits to residents and may be crucial to reaching
global biodiversity conservation targets, but little research has been conducted on how cities …