The value of doing nothing – How informal green spaces can provide comparable ecosystem services to cultivated urban parks

Vacant lands as refuges for native birds: An opportunity for biodiversity conservation in cities

(2020) Nélida R. Villaseñor et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The role of informal green spaces in reducing inequalities in urban green space availability to children and seniors

(2020) Daria Sikorska et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

A “plan bee” for cities: Pollinator diversity and plant-pollinator interactions in urban green spaces

(2020) Benjamin Daniels et al.   PLoS One

Residents’ awareness of the role of informal green spaces in a post-industrial city, with a focus on regulating services and urban adaptation potential

(2020) Renata Włodarczyk-Marciniak et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Carabid Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Response to Soil Properties of Urban Wastelands in Warsaw, Poland

(2020) Axel Schwerk et al.   Sustainability

Wastelands: their attractiveness and importance for preserving the diversity of wild bees in urban areas

(2019) Lucyna Twerd et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Investigating the benefits of ‘leftover’ places: Residents’ use and perceptions of an informal greenspace in Melbourne

(2019) Leila Mahmoudi Farahani et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Bumblebee Communities (Apidae, Bombini) in Urban Parks in Relation to Park Area and Other Characteristics

(2019) Barbara Zajdel et al.   POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Bird Communities in Urban Riparian Areas: Response to the Local- and Landscape-Scale Environmental Variables

(2019) Shiyi Guo et al.   Forests

Spatial trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services within a global biodiversity hotspot

(2018) Shiwei Lin et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Using dimension reduction PCA to identify ecosystem service bundles

(2018) Cedric Marsboom et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ecosystem services: Urban parks under a magnifying glass

(2018) Teresa Mexia et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Green spaces are not all the same for the provision of air purification and climate regulation services: The case of urban parks

(2018) Joana Vieira et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

‘Wild’ in the city context: Do relative wild areas offer opportunities for urban biodiversity?

(2018) Anke Müller et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Challenges of urban green space management in the face of using inadequate data

(2018) Marcin Feltynowski et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Residents’ perceptions and valuations of urban wastelands are influenced by vegetation structure

(2018) Marion Brun et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Multi-scale assessment of cultural ecosystem services of parks in Central European cities

(2018) Iwona Zwierzchowska et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Energy crop production in an urban area: a comparison of habitat types and land use forms targeting economic benefits and impact on species diversity

(2018) Stefan Brunzel et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

When we cannot have it all: Ecosystem services trade-offs in the context of spatial planning

(2018) Francis Turkelboom et al.   Ecosystem Services

Attached to or bound to a place? The impact of green space availability on residential duration: The environmental justice perspective

(2018) Edyta Łaszkiewicz et al.   Ecosystem Services

Urban Park Systems to Support Sustainability: The Role of Urban Park Systems in Hot Arid Urban Climates

(2018) Gunwoo Kim et al.   Forests

Impacts of Individual Daily Greenspace Exposure on Health Based on Individual Activity Space and Structural Equation Modeling

(2018) Lin Zhang et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Assessing social and biophysical drivers of spontaneous plant diversity and structure in urban vacant lots

(2018) Elsa C. Anderson et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The effect of an urban park on the microclimate in its vicinity: a case study for Antwerp, Belgium

(2017) Y. Toparlar et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Access to urban green space and environmental inequalities in Germany

(2017) Henry Wüstemann et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Eliciting non-monetary values of formal and informal urban green spaces using public participation GIS

(2017) Agata Pietrzyk-Kaszyńska et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Long-term Stability of Trace Element Concentrations in a Spontaneously Vegetated Urban Brownfield With Anthropogenic Soils

(2017) Allyson B. Salisbury et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Vacant lots: An underexplored resource for ecological and social benefits in cities

(2017) Elsa C. Anderson et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Urban parks can maintain minimal resilience for Neotropical bird communities

(2017) César A. Estevo et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Estimation of carbon emissions/savings incurred by wasteland and abandoned cropland-conversion from plantation of biofuel producing perennial tree species - Case study of India

(2017) Namita Pragya et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research

(2016) Peleg Kremer et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

The Relationship between Soil Moisture and LAI in Different Types of Soil in Central Eastern China

(2016) Li Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Does urban vegetation enhance carbon sequestration?

(2016) Erik Velasco et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Current overview and potential applications of the soil ecosystem services approach in Brazil

(2016) Rachel Bardy Prado et al.   PESQUISA AGROPECUARIA BRASILEIRA

Vacant urban lot soils and their potential to support ecosystem services

(2016) Dustin L. Herrmann et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Disentangling urban habitat and matrix effects on wild bee species

(2016) Leonie K. Fischer et al.   PeerJ

REVIEW: Quantifying urban ecosystem services based on high-resolution data of urban green space: an assessment for Rotterdam, the Netherlands

(2015) Marthe L. Derkzen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

(2015) Christoph D.D. Rupprecht et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Formation, characteristics and eco-environmental implications of urban soils – A review

(2015) Jin-Ling Yang et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Assessing urban vacant land ecosystem services: Urban vacant land as green infrastructure in the City of Roanoke, Virginia

(2015) Gunwoo Kim et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Potential reduction in urban runoff by green spaces in Beijing: A scenario analysis

(2015) Lei Yao et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

How can wastelands promote biodiversity in cities? A review

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

What is the role of trees and remnant vegetation in attracting people to urban parks?

(2014) D. F. Shanahan et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Creating novel urban grasslands by reintroducing native species in wasteland vegetation

(2013) Leonie K. Fischer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Value of Urban Vacant Land to Support Arthropod Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2013) Mary M. Gardiner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

A social–ecological assessment of vacant lots in New York City

(2013) Peleg Kremer et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

What determines occurrence of threatened bird species on urban wastelands?

(2012) Peter J. Meffert et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effects of visitor pressure on understory vegetation in Warsaw forested parks (Poland)

(2012) Piotr Sikorski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Deposition of Particulate Matter of Different Size Fractions on Leaf Surfaces and in Waxes of Urban Forest Species

(2011) Kajetan Dzierżanowski et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOREMEDIATION

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

Wild bees along an urban gradient: winners and losers

(2011) Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Model of succession in degraded areas based on carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

(2011) Axel Schwerk et al.   ZooKeys

Evaluation of floristic diversity in urban areas as a basis for habitat management

(2008) Audrey Muratet et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

(2008) Catrin Westphal et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Small urban woodlands as biodiversity conservation hot-spot: a multi-taxon approach

(2008) Solène Croci et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY