Collection
Topical Collection: Urban Biodiversity
- Submission status
- Closed
This collection of articles covers gardens, parks, urban green spaces, roadside trees, walls, roof-tops; introduced species, parks, towns, urban habitats, walls, wildlife corridors.
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Editors
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David L. Hawksworth CBE
Prof. Hawksworth is a mycologist and lichenologist with a professorship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and also a Scientific Associate of The Natural History Museum in London. He is Editor-in-Chief of Biodiversity and Conservation (Springer) and IMA Fungus (BMC).
Articles (19 in this collection)
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How do we study birds in urban settings? A systematic review
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Carly E. Campbell
- Darryl N. Jones
- Alienor L. M. Chauvenet
- Content type: Review Paper
- Published: 07 November 2021
- Pages: 1 - 20
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Living in discarded containers: spiders explore a new niche created by littering in urban woodlands
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Krzysztof Kolenda
- Konrad Wiśniewski
- Marcin Kadej
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 28 April 2021
- Pages: 1637 - 1654
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How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Corey T. Callaghan
- Alistair G. B. Poore
- Mitchell B. Lyons
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 27 November 2020
- Pages: 217 - 234
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Cities in drylands as artificial protected areas for plants
Authors
- Farrokh Ghahremaninejad
- Ehsan Hoseini
- Sogol Fereidounfar
- Content type: Commentary
- Published: 05 November 2020
- Pages: 243 - 248
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Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships
Authors
- Sascha Buchholz
- Monika H. Egerer
- Content type: Review Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 08 June 2020
- Pages: 2779 - 2801
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Green patches among a grey patchwork: the importance of preserving natural habitats to harbour cavity-nesting bees and wasps (Hymenoptera) and their natural enemies in urban areas
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Léo Correia da Rocha-Filho
- Paula Carolina Montagnana
- Carlos Alberto Garófalo
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 08 May 2020
- Pages: 2487 - 2514
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Environmental determinants of diving beetle assemblages (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in an urban landscape
Authors
- Wenfei Liao
- Stephen Venn
- Jari Niemelä
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 09 April 2020
- Pages: 2343 - 2359
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Enhancing gardens as habitats for soil-surface-active invertebrates: should we plant native or exotic species?
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Andrew Salisbury
- Sarah Al-Beidh
- Joe Perry
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 17 October 2019
- Pages: 129 - 151
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How urbanization affects multiple dimensions of biodiversity in tropical butterfly assemblages
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Cristiano Agra Iserhard
- Leandro Duarte
- André Victor Lucci Freitas
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 05 December 2018
- Pages: 621 - 638
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Long-term declines of a highly interactive urban species
Authors
- Seth B. Magle
- Mason Fidino
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 01 September 2018
- Pages: 3693 - 3706
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Nonlinear relationship between biodiversity and human population density: evidence from Southeast Asia
Authors
- Emmanuel Paradis
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 29 May 2018
- Pages: 2699 - 2712
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Quantifying the anthropocene loss of bioindicators for an early industrial region: an equitable baseline for biodiversity restoration
Authors
- Christopher J. Ellis
- Rebecca Yahr
- Brian J. Coppins
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 31 March 2018
- Pages: 2363 - 2377
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Spider communities in urban green patches and their relation to local and landscape traits
Authors
- Carina I. Argañaraz
- Gonzalo D. Rubio
- Raquel M. Gleiser
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 30 November 2017
- Pages: 981 - 1009
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Environmental drivers of spider community composition at multiple scales along an urban gradient
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- E. C. Lowe
- C. G. Threlfall
- D. F. Hochuli
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 15 November 2017
- Pages: 829 - 852
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Enhancing gardens as habitats for plant-associated invertebrates: should we plant native or exotic species?
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Andrew Salisbury
- Sarah Al-Beidh
- Joe Perry
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 30 May 2017
- Pages: 2657 - 2673
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Local and landscape scale determinants of macroinvertebrate assemblages and their conservation value in ponds across an urban land-use gradient
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Ian Thornhill
- Lesley Batty
- Mark E. Ledger
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 17 January 2017
- Pages: 1065 - 1086
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Conservation unit allows assessing vulnerability and setting conservation priorities for a Mediterranean endemic plant within the context of extreme urbanization
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Marine Pouget
- Alex Baumel
- Frédéric Médail
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 04 November 2016
- Pages: 293 - 307
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Forest mammal roadkills as related to habitat connectivity in protected areas
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Wanmo Kang
- Emily S. Minor
- Chan-Ryul Park
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 12 September 2016
- Pages: 2673 - 2686