From town to town: Predicting the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds using NDVI

The Dynamic Habitat Indices (DHIs) from MODIS and global biodiversity

(2019) V.C. Radeloff et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Primary productivity and habitat diversity predict bird species richness and composition along urban-rural gradients of central Argentina

(2019) Lucas M. Leveau   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Bird diversity in Chinese urban parks was more associated with natural factors than anthropogenic factors

(2019) Jun Liu et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space

(2019) Soyeon Bae et al.   Nature Communications

Untangling multiple species richness hypothesis globally using remote sensing habitat indices

(2019) Nicholas C. Coops et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Difficult decisions: Strategies for conservation prioritization when taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity are not spatially congruent

(2018) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity and human health: mechanisms and evidence of the positive health effects of diversity in nature and green spaces

(2018) Raf Aerts et al.   BRITISH MEDICAL BULLETIN

Urbanization as a driver of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity loss in bird communities

(2018) Facundo Xavier Palacio et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional breeding bird assemblages is reduced and constricted through urbanization

(2018) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Bird Diversity in Urban Ecosystems: The Role of the Biome and Land Use Along Urbanization Gradients

(2018) Julieta Filloy et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Contrasting impacts of land-use change on phylogenetic and functional diversity of tropical forest birds

(2018) Philip M. Chapman et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predicting the seasonal dynamics of bird communities along an urban-rural gradient using NDVI

(2018) Lucas M. Leveau et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Human–nature interactions and the consequences and drivers of provisioning wildlife

(2018) Daniel T. C. Cox et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are oppositely associated to productivity and heterogeneity in temperate forests

(2018) Soyeon Bae et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably

(2018) Florent Mazel et al.   Nature Communications

Species richness, phylogenetic and functional structure of bird communities in Chinese university campuses are associated with divergent variables

(2018) Wenjing Zhang et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

(2017) Péter Batáry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temporal changes in bird functional diversity across the United States

(2017) Jean-Yves Barnagaud et al.   OECOLOGIA

Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds

(2017) João Carlos de Castro Pena et al.   PLoS One

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

Primary productivity in cities and their influence over subtropical bird assemblages

(2017) Josefina Haedo et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Global loss of avian evolutionary uniqueness in urban areas

(2016) Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence of evolutionary homogenization of bird communities in urban environments across Europe

(2016) Federico Morelli et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Land-use change promotes avian diversity at the expense of species with unique traits

(2016) Bernard W. T. Coetzee et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Predicting tree species richness in urban forests

(2016) Thomas W. Gillespie 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

Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space

(2015) Andrew K. Skidmore et al.   NATURE

Bird Richness and Abundance in Response to Urban Form in a Latin American City: Valdivia, Chile as a Case Study

(2015) Carmen Paz Silva et al.   PLoS One

Functional diversity of urban bird communities: effects of landscape composition, green space area and vegetation cover

(2015) Claudia Schütz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Urban densification causes the decline of ground-dwelling arthropods

(2014) Alan Vergnes et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bird song diversity influences young people's appreciation of urban landscapes

(2014) Marcus Hedblom et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Effects of urbanization on breeding birds in European towns: Impacts of species traits

(2014) J. Jokimäki et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Threshold Responses of Forest Birds to Landscape Changes around Exurban Development

(2013) Marcela Suarez-Rubio et al.   PLoS One

How to improve urban greenspace for woodland birds: site and local-scale determinants of bird species richness

(2013) Michal Ferenc et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The role of urbanization and seasonality on the temporal variability of bird communities

(2012) Lucas M. Leveau et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Temporal changes in greenspace in a highly urbanized region

(2011) M. Dallimer et al.   Biology Letters

Nectarivorous feeding by the Bay-winged Cowbird (Agelaioides badius)

(2011) Lucas M. Leveau et al.   STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT

Thresholds in the long-term responses of breeding birds to forest cover and fragmentation

(2010) Benjamin Zuckerberg et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

SAM: a comprehensive application for Spatial Analysis in Macroecology

(2010) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   ECOGRAPHY

How novel is too novel? Stream community thresholds at exceptionally low levels of catchment urbanization

(2010) Ryan S. King et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Motivations for Conserving Urban Biodiversity

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

Accurate prediction of bird species richness patterns in an urban environment using Landsat‐derived NDVI and spectral unmixing

(2008) G. Bino et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Bird community responses along urban–rural gradients: Does the size of the urbanized area matter?

(2008) Pablo I. Garaffa et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING