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 …

By transforming landscapes, human activity creates new types of habitats with altered
environmental characteristics that never existed before. As the process of habitat …

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Identifying which ecological and life history traits influence a species' tolerance to
urbanization is critical to understanding the trajectory of biodiversity in an increasingly …

Cities have classically been viewed as biologically impoverished, homogenized, and
simplified systems that harbor low value for biodiversity. However, recent work has …

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is
therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns …

Context Urbanization fragments and destroys natural landscapes, generally decreasing bird
diversity. While in some cases bird diversity continuously decreases in response to …

Species richness is often used as a tool for prioritizing conservation action. One method for
predicting richness and other summaries of community structure is to develop species …

The rapid urbanization of the world has profound effects on global biodiversity, and
urbanization has been counted among the processes contributing to the homogenization of …

Urbanization is a fundamental environmental change, today happening at accelerated
speed worldwide. Despite the strong and permanent human impact, urban biodiversity has …