Promoting wildflower biodiversity in dense and green cities: The important role of small vegetation patches

Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?

(2020) Lenore Fahrig   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Connecting people to biodiversity in cities of tomorrow: Is urban foraging a powerful tool?

(2020) Leonie K. Fischer et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

(2020) Xiaoping Liu et al.   Nature Sustainability

Beyond the urban-rural gradient: Self-organizing map detects the nine landscape types of the city of Rome

(2019) Carlo Fratarcangeli et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

More than weeds: Spontaneous vegetation in streets as a neglected element of urban biodiversity

(2019) Sébastien Bonthoux et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity

(2019) Briony A. Norton et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The best wildflowers for wild bees

(2019) Rachel N. Nichols et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments

(2019) Lindsay S. Miles et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecosystem service provision by road verges

(2019) Benjamin B. Phillips et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

To mow or to mow less: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity in suburban yards

(2018) Susannah B. Lerman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Mix and match: regional admixture provenancing strikes a balance among different seed-sourcing strategies for ecological restoration

(2018) Anna Bucharova et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Beyond green: Broad support for biodiversity in multicultural European cities

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

Compact cities or sprawling suburbs? Optimising the distribution of people in cities to maximise species diversity

(2018) Andrew Geschke et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

From rural-urban gradients to patch – matrix frameworks: Plant diversity patterns in urban landscapes

(2018) Dan Malkinson et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The rapid but “invisible” changes in urban greenspace: A comparative study of nine Chinese cities

(2018) Weiqi Zhou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plant species or flower colour diversity? Identifying the drivers of public and invertebrate response to designed annual meadows

(2018) Helen Hoyle et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Drivers of the distribution of spontaneous plant communities and species within urban tree bases

(2018) Mona Omar et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

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

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

Optimising UK urban road verge contributions to biodiversity and ecosystem services with cost-effective management

(2017) Odhran S. O'Sullivan et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Determinants of species richness within and across taxonomic groups in urban green spaces

(2017) Sarah A. Matthies et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Toward livable and healthy urban streets: Roadside vegetation provides ecosystem services where people live and move

(2016) Ina Säumel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Effects of fragmentation on plant adaptation to urban environments

(2016) Jonathan Dubois et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Wildflowers: From conserving biodiversity to urban greening—A review

(2016) Francesca Bretzel et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The conservation value of urban green space habitats for Australian native bee communities

(2015) Caragh G. Threlfall et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

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

Understanding the potential loss and inequities of green space distribution with urban densification

(2015) Brenda Lin et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification: A review

(2015) Christine Haaland et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Opportunities for Increasing Resilience and Sustainability of Urban Social–Ecological Systems: Insights from the URBES and the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook Projects

(2014) Maria Schewenius et al.   AMBIO

Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services

(2014) Erik Andersson et al.   AMBIO

Human legacies differentially organize functional and phylogenetic diversity of urban herbaceous plant communities at multiple spatial scales

(2014) Anna L. Johnson et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

How can wastelands promote biodiversity in cities? A review

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

The grass-free lawn: Management and species choice for optimum ground cover and plant diversity

(2014) Lionel S. Smith et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Does restoration help the conservation of the threatened forest of Robinson Crusoe Island? The impact of forest gap attributes on endemic plant species richness and exotic invasions

(2013) R. Vargas et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

(2013) S. Braaker et al.   ECOLOGY

Predicting species' maximum dispersal distances from simple plant traits

(2013) Riin Tamme et al.   ECOLOGY

Reconciling conflicting perspectives for biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene

(2013) Christoph Kueffer et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

D3: The Dispersal and Diaspore Database – Baseline data and statistics on seed dispersal

(2013) Christina Hintze et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The balance of planting and mortality in a street tree population

(2013) Lara A. Roman et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

Species richness in urban parks and its drivers: A review of empirical evidence

(2013) Anders Busse Nielsen et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Mapping ecosystem services in New York City: Applying a social–ecological approach in urban vacant land

(2013) Timon McPhearson et al.   Ecosystem Services

Urban grassland restoration: which plant traits make desired species successful colonizers?

(2012) Leonie K. Fischer et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient

(2012) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY

Use of Small Public Urban Green Spaces (SPUGS)

(2012) Karin K. Peschardt et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Ecosystem services provided by urban spontaneous vegetation

(2012) Sarah L. Robinson et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities

(2011) Richard P. Duncan et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

(2009) Mark A. Goddard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The town Crepis and the country Crepis: How does fragmentation affect a plant–pollinator interaction?

(2008) Emilie Andrieu et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta

(2008) P.-O. Cheptou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) Ute Schadek et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS