Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanization

Islands in cities: Urbanization and fragmentation drive taxonomic and functional variation in ground arthropods

(2020) Elena Piano et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2020) Bertrand Fournier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Built-up expansion between 2001 and 2011 in South America continues well beyond the cities

(2018) Maria Jose Andrade-Núñez et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Increased body size along urbanization gradients at both community and intraspecific level in macro-moths

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

A meta-analysis indicates reduced predation pressure with increasing urbanization

(2018) Csaba Béla Eötvös et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urbanization-driven changes in web building and body size in an orb web spider

(2018) Maxime Dahirel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Conversion from environmental filtering to randomness as assembly rule of ground beetle assemblages along an urbanization gradient

(2018) Tibor Magura et al.   Scientific Reports

Diversity and assemblage filtering in ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) along an urbanisation gradient in Denmark

(2018) Gábor L. Lövei et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Non-linearities in bird responses across urbanization gradients: A meta-analysis

(2017) Péter Batáry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Three phases of changes in carabid assemblages during secondary succession in a pine forest disturbed by windthrow - results from the first 10 years of observations

(2017) Jarosław J. Skłodowski   Insect Conservation and Diversity

The matrix affects carabid beetle assemblages in linear urban ruderal habitats

(2017) Marju Prass et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Distribution of toxic elements between biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystem along an urbanization gradient: Soil, leaf litter and ground beetles

(2016) Edina Simon et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) diversity is higher in narrow hedges composed of a native compared to non-native trees in a Danish agricultural landscape

(2016) Gabor L. Lövei et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Biotic homogenization of three insect groups due to urbanization

(2015) Eva Knop   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

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

(2015) Elena D. Concepción et al.   OIKOS

Beta diversity as a tool for determining priority streams for management actions

(2015) Luis Gabriel Antão Barboza et al.   WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

Influence of Urbanization on Body Size, Condition, and Physiology in an Urban Exploiter: A Multi-Component Approach

(2015) Alizée Meillère et al.   PLoS One

Effects of metal pollution on survival and physiological responses in Carabus (Chaetocarabus) lefebvrei (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

(2014) F. Talarico et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Multimodal species abundance distributions: a deconstruction approach reveals the processes behind the pattern

(2014) Thomas J. Matthews et al.   OIKOS

Climate warming and ectotherm body size - from individual physiology to community ecology

(2013) Jan Ohlberger   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Carabids.org - a dynamic online database of ground beetle species traits (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

(2013) Katharina Homburg et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

A meta-analysis of the effects of urbanization on ground beetle communities

(2013) Holly M. Martinson et al.   Ecosphere

Do birds and beetles show similar responses to urbanization?

(2011) Sara A. Gagné et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation

(2011) Ingo Kowarik   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Responses of carabid beetles to urbanization in Transylvania (Romania)

(2011) Béla Tóthmérész et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Forty years of carabid beetle research in Europe – from taxonomy, biology, ecology and population studies to bioindication, habitat assessment and conservation

(2011) D. Johan Kotze et al.   ZooKeys

Body-size distributions and size-spectra: universal indicators of ecological status?

(2010) O. L. Petchey et al.   Biology Letters

Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective

(2009) Steven L. Chown et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

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

Carabid beetle assemblages along urban to rural gradients: A review

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

The effects of forest patch size and matrix type on changes in carabid beetle assemblages in an urbanized landscape

(2008) Eva Gaublomme et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A species-level comparison of occurrence patterns in carabids along an urbanisation gradient

(2008) Tibor Magura et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Urban-rural humidity and temperature differences in the Beijing area

(2008) Weidong Liu et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY