The origin of urban communities: From the regional species pool to community assemblages in city

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Arthropod assemblages and functional responses along an urbanization gradient: A trait-based multi-taxa approach

(2018) Dávid D. Nagy et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Litter decomposition driven by soil fauna, plant diversity and soil management in urban gardens

(2018) Simon Tresch et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Biodiversity in the city: key challenges for urban green space management

(2017) Myla FJ Aronson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A review of urban impacts on avian life-history evolution: Does city living lead to slower pace of life?

(2017) Tuul Sepp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Urbanization drives community shifts towards thermophilic and dispersive species at local and landscape scales

(2017) Elena Piano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Habitat connectivity and local conditions shape taxonomic and functional diversity of arthropods on green roofs

(2017) Sonja Braaker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations

(2017) Marina Alberti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of life in urban environments

(2017) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Patterns of pollinator turnover and increasing diversity associated with urban habitats

(2017) Kyle T. Martins et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Process-Based Species Pools Reveal the Hidden Signature of Biotic Interactions Amid the Influence of Temperature Filtering

(2016) Jean-Philippe Lessard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Differential organization of taxonomic and functional diversity in an urban woody plant metacommunity

(2016) Christopher M. Swan et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools

(2016) Myla F. J. Aronson et al.   ECOLOGY

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

(2016) Marco Moretti et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Biotic homogenization of urban floras by alien species: the role of species turnover and richness differences

(2016) Zdeňka Lososová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The priority of prediction in ecological understanding

(2016) Jeff E. Houlahan et al.   OIKOS

Adaptation to fragmentation: evolutionary dynamics driven by human influences

(2016) Pierre-Olivier Cheptou et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional homogenization of flower visitor communities with urbanization

(2016) Nicolas Deguines et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Butterflies in the city: a review of urban diurnal Lepidoptera

(2016) Lorena Ramírez-Restrepo et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Biodiversity in cities needs space: a meta-analysis of factors determining intra-urban biodiversity variation

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biotic homogenization of three insect groups due to urbanization

(2015) Eva Knop   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

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

Impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity: the role of species mobility, degree of specialisation and spatial scale

(2015) Elena D. Concepción et al.   OIKOS

Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects

(2015) K. C. R. Baldock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas

(2015) T Elmqvist et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

What Are Species Pools and When Are They Important?

(2014) Howard V. Cornell et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Ecological homogenization of urban USA

(2014) Peter M Groffman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Do cities simulate climate change? A comparison of herbivore response to urban and global warming

(2014) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biogeography of western Mediterranean butterflies: combining turnover and nestedness components of faunal dissimilarity

(2014) Leonardo Dapporto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Habitat connectivity shapes urban arthropod communities: the key role of green roofs

(2013) S. Braaker et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of Urbanization on Tree Species Functional Diversity in Eastern North America

(2013) Charles A. Nock et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Decomposing functional β-diversity reveals that low functional β-diversity is driven by low functional turnover in European fish assemblages

(2013) Sébastien Villéger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rove beetles respond heterogeneously to urbanization

(2013) Tibor Magura et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

The future of urban biodiversity research: Moving beyond the ‘low-hanging fruit’

(2013) Mark J. McDonnell et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness

(2012) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences

(2012) Jean-Philippe Lessard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biodiversity Conservation in Metacommunity Networks: Linking Pattern and Persistence

(2011) Evan P. Economo   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Insect rarity, extinction and conservation in urban Rome (Italy): a 120-year-long study of tenebrionid beetles

(2011) SIMONE FATTORINI   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Urban arthropod communities: Added value or just a blend of surrounding biodiversity?

(2011) Thomas Sattler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

What do we know about winter active ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Central and Northern Europe?

(2011) Radomir Jaskula et al.   ZooKeys

Insect extinction by urbanization: A long term study in Rome

(2010) Simone Fattorini   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity

(2010) Hanna Tuomisto   ECOGRAPHY

The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

(2010) Francesco De Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management

(2010) T. Sattler et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

(2010) Sean B. Menke et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Does urbanization decrease diversity in ground beetle (Carabidae) assemblages?

(2009) Tibor Magura et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Freight Transportation and the Potential for Invasions of Exotic Insects in Urban and Periurban Forests of the United States

(2009) Manuel Colunga-Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Carabid beetle assemblages along urban to rural gradients: A review

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

Challenging urban species diversity: contrasting phylogenetic patterns across plant functional groups in Germany

(2008) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras

(2008) Nicholas S.G. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Co-occurrence based assessment of species habitat specialization is affected by the size of species pool: reply to Fridleyet al. (2007)

(2008) David Zelený   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The use of gradient analysis studies in advancing our understanding of the ecology of urbanizing landscapes: current status and future directions

(2008) Mark J. McDonnell et al.   LANDSCAPE 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