Emerging Urban Forests: Opportunities for Promoting the Wild Side of the Urban Green Infrastructure

This town ain't big enough for both of us…or is it? Spatial co-occurrence between exotic and native species in an urban reserve

(2019) Gonzalo A. Ramírez-Cruz et al.   PLoS One

Context-Dependence of Urban Forest Vegetation Invasion Level and Alien Species’ Ecological Success

(2019) Marcin Dyderski et al.   Forests

Assessing the environmental impacts of invasive alien plants: a review of assessment approaches

(2019) Robert Bartz et al.   NeoBiota

Functional traits of acquisitive invasive woody species differ from conservative invasive and native species

(2019) Marcin K. Dyderski et al.   NeoBiota

Comparison of the understory vegetation of native forests and adjacent Robinia pseudoacacia plantations in the Carpathian-Pannonian region

(2019) Denisa Slabejová et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Urban forest restoration ecology: a review from Hamilton, New Zealand

(2019) Kiri Joy Wallace et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND

Urbanisation modulates plant-pollinator interactions in invasive vs. native plant species

(2019) Sascha Buchholz et al.   Scientific Reports

Towards an Integrative, Eco-Evolutionary Understanding of Ecological Novelty: Studying and Communicating Interlinked Effects of Global Change

(2019) Tina Heger et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Untangling the role of urban ecosystems as habitats for endangered plant species

(2019) Greg Planchuelo et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Beijing’s 50 million new urban trees: Strategic governance for large-scale urban afforestation

(2019) Na Yao et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Drivers of invasive tree and shrub natural regeneration in temperate forests

(2018) Marcin K. Dyderski et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Beyond green: Broad support for biodiversity in multicultural European cities

(2018) Leonie K. Fischer et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Plant population success across urban ecosystems: A framework to inform biodiversity conservation in cities

(2018) Ingo Kowarik et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

(2018) Torben Hilmers et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evaluating restoration success of a 40-year-old urban forest in reference to mature natural forest

(2018) Takeshi Sasaki et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Introduction to the special feature “The role of cemeteries as green urban spaces”

(2018) Helena Nordh et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Residents’ perceptions and valuations of urban wastelands are influenced by vegetation structure

(2018) Marion Brun et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Exotic trees contribute to urban forest diversity and ecosystem services in inner-city Cleveland, OH

(2018) Christopher B. Riley et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Public perception of spontaneous vegetation on brownfields in urban areas—Results from surveys in Dresden and Leipzig (Germany)

(2018) Juliane Mathey et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The contribution of wild urban ecosystems to liveable cities

(2018) Michael L. McKinney et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The distinct ecological and social roles that wild spaces play in urban ecosystems

(2018) Caragh G. Threlfall et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Urban wilderness: Supply, demand, and access

(2018) Ingo Kowarik   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Factors driving natural regeneration beneath a planted urban forest

(2018) Danica A. Doroski et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Strategically growing the urban forest will improve our world

(2018) Theodore A. Endreny   Nature Communications

Asset or Liability? Ecological and Sociological Tradeoffs of Urban Spontaneous Vegetation on Vacant Land in Shrinking Cities

(2018) Christopher Riley et al.   Sustainability

Reducing management intensity and isolation as promising tools to enhance ground-dwelling arthropod diversity in urban grasslands

(2018) Sascha Buchholz et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The Necessity of Multitrophic Approaches in Community Ecology

(2018) Sebastian Seibold et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A city-scale assessment reveals that native forest types and overstory species dominate New York City forests

(2018) Clara C. Pregitzer et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Advancing urban green infrastructure in Europe: Outcomes and reflections from the GREEN SURGE project

(2018) Stephan Pauleit et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

It’s ok to be wilder: Preference for natural growth in urban green spaces in a tropical city

(2018) Yun Hye Hwang et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The “Green Belt Berlin”: Establishing a greenway where the Berlin Wall once stood by integrating ecological, social and cultural approaches

(2018) Ingo Kowarik   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia ) beloved and despised: A story of an invasive tree in Central Europe

(2017) Michaela Vítková et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Increasing biodiversity in urban green spaces through simple vegetation interventions

(2017) Caragh G. Threlfall et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Land use history and seed dispersal drive divergent plant community assembly patterns in urban vacant lots

(2017) Anna L. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta-analysis

(2017) Simon Thorn et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Vacant lots: An underexplored resource for ecological and social benefits in cities

(2017) Elsa C. Anderson et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary uniqueness in bird communities of Beijing's urban parks: Effects of land use and vegetation structure

(2017) Federico Morelli et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The social and economic value of cultural ecosystem services provided by urban forests in North America: A review and suggestions for future research

(2017) Lorien Nesbitt et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The dynamics and conservation of forest ecosystems in Bucharest Metropolitan Area

(2017) Ines Grigorescu et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The utility of ancient forest indicator species in urban environments: A case study from Poznań, Poland

(2017) Marcin K. Dyderski et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Urban ornamental trees: a source of current invaders; a case study from a European City

(2017) Natálie Čeplová et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review

(2017) Nina Schwarz et al.   Ecosystem Services

Towards site-specific management of invasive alien trees based on the assessment of their impacts: the case of Robinia pseudoacacia

(2017) Jiří Sádlo et al.   NeoBiota

Restoration treatments in urban park forests drive long-term changes in vegetation trajectories

(2016) Lea R. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climbing vines and forest edges affect tree growth and mortality in temperate forests of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic States

(2016) Elizabeth R. Matthews et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of vegetation structure on the diversity of breeding bird communities in forest stands of non-native black pine ( Pinus nigra A.) and black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia L.) in the Czech Republic

(2016) Jan Hanzelka et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Extinction of experience: the loss of human-nature interactions

(2016) Masashi Soga et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Managing invasive species in cities: A framework from Cape Town, South Africa

(2016) Mirijam Gaertner et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Poplar plantations along regulated rivers may resemble riparian forests after abandonment: a comparison of passive restoration approaches

(2016) Eduardo González et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Restoration, Reintroduction, and Rewilding in a Changing World

(2016) Richard T. Corlett   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Vegetation recovery after removal of invasive Trachycarpus fortunei in a fragmented urban shrine forest

(2016) Hiroaki Ishii et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Twenty years of woodland establishment through natural succession on a sandy landfill site in Berlin, Germany

(2016) Franz Rebele et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Investigating perception of green structure configuration for afforestation in urban brownfield development by visual methods—A case study in Leipzig, Germany

(2016) Dieter Rink et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Biodiversity functions of urban cemeteries: Evidence from one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe

(2016) Ingo Kowarik et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Both Direct and Vicarious Experiences of Nature Affect Children’s Willingness to Conserve Biodiversity

(2016) Masashi Soga et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Assessing Urban Forest Structure, Ecosystem Services, and Economic Benefits on Vacant Land

(2016) Gunwoo Kim   Sustainability

Novel Tropical Forests: Nature's Response to Global Change

(2016) Ariel E. Lugo   Tropical Conservation Science

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

(2015) Erle C. Ellis   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Monitoring urban expansion and its effects on land use and land cover changes in Guangzhou city, China

(2015) Yanyan Wu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

A framework for urban–woodland naturalization in Canada

(2015) Sydney A. Toni et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Impacts of invasive plants on resident animals across ecosystems, taxa, and feeding types: a global assessment

(2015) Jens Schirmel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

(2015) Christopher D. Ives et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Near-Natural Silviculture: Sustainable Approach for Urban Renaturalization? Assessment Based on 10 Years Recovering Dynamics and Eco-Benefits in Shanghai

(2015) XueYan Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

(2015) Christoph D.D. Rupprecht et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Long-term outcomes of forest restoration in an urban park

(2015) Brady L. Simmons et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Assessing urban vacant land ecosystem services: Urban vacant land as green infrastructure in the City of Roanoke, Virginia

(2015) Gunwoo Kim et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Twenty-one years of stand dynamics in a 33-year-old urban forest restoration site at Kobe Municipal Sports Park, Japan

(2015) Kana Hotta et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

“The rich get richer” concept in riparian woody species – A case study of the Warta River Valley (Poznań, Poland)

(2015) Marcin K. Dyderski et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

A framework for urban–woodland naturalization in Canada

(2015) Sydney A. Toni et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Near-Natural Silviculture: Sustainable Approach for Urban Renaturalization? Assessment Based on 10 Years Recovering Dynamics and Eco-Benefits in Shanghai

(2015) XueYan Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Novel woodland patches in a small historical Mediterranean city: Padova, Northern Italy

(2015) Tommaso Sitzia et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of a Major Tree Invader on Urban Woodland Arthropods

(2015) Sascha Buchholz et al.   PLoS One

People move but cultivated plants stay: abandoned farmsteads support the persistence and spread of alien plants

(2014) Ildikó Pándi et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Urban densification causes the decline of ground-dwelling arthropods

(2014) Alan Vergnes et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Outstanding challenges for urban conservation research and action

(2014) Assaf Shwartz et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

How can wastelands promote biodiversity in cities? A review

(2014) Sébastien Bonthoux et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban forests and the conservation of threatened plant species: the case of the Tijuca National Park, Brazil

(2014) Nina Pougy et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

(2014) M. F. J. Aronson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A socio-ecological exploration of fear of crime in urban green spaces – A systematic review

(2014) Maruthaveeran Sreetheran et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Informal urban greenspace: A typology and trilingual systematic review of its role for urban residents and trends in the literature

(2014) Christoph D.D. Rupprecht et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Spider assemblages within greenspaces of a deindustrialized urban landscape

(2014) Caitlin E. Burkman et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Vegetation succession in restoration of disturbed sites in Central Europe: the direction of succession and species richness across 19 seres

(2013) Karel Prach et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Biotic homogenization at the community scale: disentangling the roles of urbanization and plant invasion

(2013) Giovanni Trentanovi et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The Value of Urban Vacant Land to Support Arthropod Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2013) Mary M. Gardiner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Challenges and future directions in urban afforestation

(2013) Emily E. Oldfield et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biological Flora of the British Isles:Robinia pseudoacacia

(2013) Arne Cierjacks et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Differential succession towards woodland along a nutrient gradient

(2012) Franz Rebele   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Patterns of exotic plants in relation to anthropogenic edges within urban forest remnants

(2012) Richard LaPaix et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Temporary conservation for urban biodiversity

(2011) Mira Kattwinkel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation

(2011) Ingo Kowarik   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

A global assessment of invasive plant impacts on resident species, communities and ecosystems: the interaction of impact measures, invading species' traits and environment

(2011) Petr Pyšek et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seed traits, landscape and environmental parameters as predictors of species occurrence in fragmented urban railway habitats

(2010) Janneke R. Westermann et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Conservation in a city: Do the same principles apply to different taxa?

(2010) Vojtěch Jarošík et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Impact of the invasive moss Campylopus introflexus on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and spiders (Araneae) in acidic coastal dunes at the southern Baltic Sea

(2010) Jens Schirmel et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Motivations for Conserving Urban Biodiversity

(2009) DONALD C. DEARBORN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Carabid beetle assemblages along urban to rural gradients: A review

(2009) Jari Niemelä et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Changes in the functional composition of a Central European urban flora over three centuries

(2009) Sonja Knapp et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

URban Biotopes of Aotearoa New Zealand (URBANZ) II: Floristics, biodiversity and conservation values of urban residential and public woodlands, Christchurch

(2009) G.H. Stewart et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Towards an integrated understanding of green space in the European built environment

(2009) P. James et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Effects of exotic invasive trees on nitrogen cycling: a case study in Central Spain

(2008) P. Castro-Díez et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Small urban woodlands as biodiversity conservation hot-spot: a multi-taxon approach

(2008) Solène Croci et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Spontaneous Succession versus Technical Reclamation in the Restoration of Disturbed Sites

(2008) Karel Prach et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Plant species richness, vegetation structure and soil resources of urban brownfield sites linked to successional age

(2008) Ute Schadek et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Woodlands across Swedish urban gradients: Status, structure and management implications

(2007) Marcus Hedblom et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING