Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

CC Rega-Brodsky, MFJ Aronson, MR Piana… - Urban …, 2022 - Springer
Since the 1990s, recognition of urban biodiversity research has increased steadily.
Knowledge of how ecological communities respond to urban pressures can assist in …

Urban biodiversity, ecosystems and the city. Insights from 50 years of the Berlin School of urban ecology

I Kowarik - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
In the face of accelerating urbanization, urban ecology is an important multidisciplinary
science for develo** future cities, with roots in many fields of research. In light of the …

Enabling technologies and sustainable smart cities

MA Ahad, S Paiva, G Tripathi, N Feroz - Sustainable cities and society, 2020 - Elsevier
The technological interventions in everyday processes has led to the rise of Smart
ecosystems where all aspects of everyday life like governance, transportation, agriculture …

Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities

MS Fenoglio, A Calviño, E González… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite
that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

CD Ives, PE Lentini, CG Threlfall, K Ikin… - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although urbanization impacts many species, there is little information on the patterns of
occurrences of threatened species in urban relative to non‐urban areas. By assessing the …

Multi-year comparison of the effects of spatial pattern of urban green spaces on urban land surface temperature

M Masoudi, PY Tan - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban greening is increasingly viewed by cities worldwide as an effective measure to
mitigate adverse impacts of urban heat island (UHI) effect. Despite the recognition of the …

Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools

MFJ Aronson, CH Nilon, CA Lepczyk, TS Parker… - Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of humanity now lives in cities or towns, with this proportion expected to
continue increasing for the foreseeable future. As novel ecosystems, urban areas offer an …

Evolution and future of urban ecological science: ecology in, of, and for the city

STA Pickett, ML Cadenasso, DL Childers… - Ecosystem health and …, 2016 - spj.science.org
The contrast between ecology in cities and ecology of cities has emphasized the increasing
scope of urban ecosystem research. Ecology in focuses on terrestrial and aquatic patches …

[HTML][HTML] Designing urban green spaces for climate adaptation: A critical review of research outputs

M Graça, S Cruz, A Monteiro, TS Neset - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces provide important contributions to enhance climate adaptation, and
therefore research in this area has increased exponentially in the last decades. While …

The ecological future of cities

MJ McDonnell, I MacGregor-Fors - Science, 2016 - science.org
The discipline of urban ecology arose in the 1990s, primarily motivated by a widespread
interest in documenting the distribution and abundance of animals and plants in cities …