A framework for understanding how biodiversity patterns unfold across multiple spatial scales in urban ecosystems

Horticultural availability and homeowner preferences drive plant diversity and composition in urban yards

(2020) Jeannine Cavender‐Bares et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways

(2020) Guangzhao Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Biodiversity conservation through the lens of metacommunity ecology

(2020) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Contribution of non‐native plants to the phylogenetic homogenization of U.S. yard floras

(2019) Josep Padullés Cubino et al.   Ecosphere

Similar responses of native and alien floras in European cities to climate

(2019) Veronika Kalusová et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Linking yard plant diversity to homeowners’ landscaping priorities across the U.S

(2019) Josep Padullés Cubino et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Biodiverse cities: the nursery industry, homeowners, and neighborhood differences drive urban tree composition

(2018) Meghan L. Avolio et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

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

Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis

(2018) Lara A. Roman et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Homogenization of plant diversity, composition, and structure in North American urban yards

(2018) William D. Pearse et al.   Ecosphere

The negative effects of habitat fragmentation operate at the scale of dispersal

(2018) Robert J. Fletcher et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatial scale modulates the inference of metacommunity assembly processes

(2018) Duarte S. Viana et al.   ECOLOGY

Drivers of plant species richness and phylogenetic composition in urban yards at the continental scale

(2018) Josep Padullés Cubino et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Legacy effects and landscape choices in a desert city

(2017) Kelli L. Larson et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities

(2017) Megan M. Wheeler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

How small cities affect the biodiversity of ground-dwelling mammals and the relevance of this knowledge in planning urban land expansion in terms of urban wildlife

(2017) Rafał Łopucki et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Ecological homogenization of residential macrosystems

(2017) Peter M. Groffman et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Beta diversity declines while native plant species richness triples over 35years in a suburban protected area

(2016) Marie-Pierre Beauvais et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A stochastic model for landscape patterns of biodiversity

(2016) Jayme A. Prevedello et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools

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

Climate change will increase the naturalization risk from garden plants in Europe

(2016) Iwona Dullinger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Increasing species richness but decreasing phylogenetic richness and divergence over a 320-year period of urbanization

(2016) Sonja Knapp et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Do water requirements of Mediterranean gardens relate to socio-economic and demographic factors?

(2016) Josep Padullés Cubino et al.   Urban Water Journal

Stream biodiversity is disproportionately lost to urbanization when flow permanence declines: evidence from southwestern North America

(2016) Ryan S. King et al.   Freshwater Science

Stream biodiversity is disproportionately lost to urbanization when flow permanence declines: evidence from southwestern North America

(2016) Ryan S. King et al.   Freshwater Science

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

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) Elena D. Concepción et al.   OIKOS

Urbanisation, plant traits and the composition of urban floras

(2015) Nicholas S.G. Williams et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Impacts of urban sprawl on species richness of plants, butterflies, gastropods and birds: not only built-up area matters

(2015) Elena D. Concepción et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

Ecological homogenization of urban USA

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

Beta diversity of urban floras among European and non-European cities

(2014) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial scale resolves the niche versus neutral theory debate

(2014) Jonathan M. Chase   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Traditional agricultural gardens conserve wild plants and functional richness in arid South Sinai

(2013) Olivia Norfolk et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

Proposing a resolution to debates on diversity partitioning

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY

Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation

(2011) Ingo Kowarik   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

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

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

Native and alien floras in urban habitats: a comparison across 32 cities of central Europe

(2011) Zdeňka Lososová et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversity of Central European urban biota: effects of human-made habitat types on plants and land snails

(2011) Zdeňka Lososová et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant traits link people's plant preferences to the composition of their gardens

(2011) Dave Kendal et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory

(2011) Jürg B. Logue et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Time for a change: dynamic urban ecology

(2011) Cristina E. Ramalho et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Residential landscapes as social-ecological systems: a synthesis of multi-scalar interactions between people and their home environment

(2011) Elizabeth M. Cook et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Secondary wind dispersal enhances long-distance dispersal of an invasive species in urban road corridors

(2011) Ingo Kowarik et al.   NeoBiota

Long-term dynamics of bird diversity in forest and suburb: decay, turnover or homogenization?

(2010) Carla P. Catterall et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 2. Quantifying beta diversity and related phenomena

(2010) Hanna Tuomisto   ECOGRAPHY

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Neophyte species richness at the landscape scale under urban sprawl and climate warming

(2009) Michael P. Nobis et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas

(2009) Amy K. Hahs 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

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Gardening and urban landscaping: significant players in global change

(2008) Ülo Niinemets et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE