Applying predictive models to study the ecological properties of urban ecosystems: A case study in Zürich, Switzerland

Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes

(2021) Nicholas E. Tew et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2020) Bertrand Fournier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Nature Communications

Socio-ecological connectivity differs in magnitude and direction across urban landscapes

(2020) Monika Egerer et al.   Scientific Reports

Socio‐Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics in Cities

(2020) Simone Des Roches et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The Global Urban Tree Inventory: A database of the diverse tree flora that inhabits the world’s cities

(2020) Alessandro Ossola et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

(2020) Christopher J. Schell et al.   SCIENCE

Arthropod abundance modulates bird community responses to urbanization

(2020) Aimara Planillo et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Mapping urban temperature using crowd-sensing data and machine learning

(2020) Marius Zumwald et al.   Urban Climate

Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing

(2019) Florian Zellweger et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities

(2019) Katherine C. R. Baldock et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios

(2019) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   Nature Communications

Urbanization drives unique latitudinal patterns of insect herbivory and tree condition

(2019) Michael G. Just et al.   OIKOS

Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

(2019) Tianhua He et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

How to predict biodiversity in space? An evaluation of modelling approaches in marine ecosystems

(2019) Chongliang Zhang et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

(2019) Rafael O. Wüest et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Wild pollinator activity negatively related to honey bee colony densities in urban context

(2019) Lise Ropars et al.   PLoS One

Land‐sharing vs. land‐sparing urban development modulate predator–prey interactions in Europe

(2019) Jukka Jokimäki et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

(2019) Helen R. P. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity within the city: Effects of land sharing and land sparing urban development on avian diversity

(2019) Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

The predictability of a lake phytoplankton community, over time-scales of hours to years

(2018) Mridul K. Thomas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predation risk shaped by habitat and landscape complexity in urban environments

(2018) David Frey et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

Compact or spread? A quantitative spatial model of urban areas in Europe since 1990

(2018) Manuel Wolff et al.   PLoS One

Effects of urbanisation and management practices on pollinators in tropical Africa

(2018) Solène Guenat et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Trap nests for bees and wasps to analyse trophic interactions in changing environments-A systematic overview and user guide

(2018) Michael Staab et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

(2018) L. Ruth Rivkin et al.   Evolutionary Applications

An alternative urban green carpet

(2018) Maria Ignatieva et al.   SCIENCE

Litter decomposition driven by soil fauna, plant diversity and soil management in urban gardens

(2018) Simon Tresch et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Urbanization drives community shifts towards thermophilic and dispersive species at local and landscape scales

(2017) Elena Piano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sustainability in an urbanizing planet

(2017) Karen C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

(2016) Nicole L. Boivin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Simulated shifts in trophic niche breadth modulate range loss of alpine butterflies under climate change

(2015) Patrice Descombes et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Urban drivers of plant-pollinator interactions

(2015) Tina Harrison et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Biotic homogenization of three insect groups due to urbanization

(2015) Eva Knop   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Enhancing gardens as habitats for flower-visiting aerial insects (pollinators): should we plant native or exotic species?

(2015) Andrew Salisbury et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Elena D. Concepción et al.   OIKOS

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

(2015) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects

(2015) K. C. R. Baldock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Lawn as a cultural and ecological phenomenon: A conceptual framework for transdisciplinary research

(2015) Maria Ignatieva et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Adding ecological value to the urban lawnscape. Insect abundance and diversity in grass-free lawns

(2014) Lionel S. Smith et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Assessing habitat connectivity for ground-dwelling animals in an urban environment

(2014) S. Braaker et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

Global patterns of diversity in the urban forest: Is there evidence to support the 10/20/30 rule?

(2014) Dave Kendal et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

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

(2013) S. Braaker et al.   ECOLOGY

Urban biodiversity hotspots wait to get discovered: The example of the city of Ioannina, NW Greece

(2013) Aphrodite Kantsa et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation

(2011) Ingo Kowarik   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

URBIO: an introduction to the International Network in Urban Biodiversity and Design

(2011) Norbert Müller et al.   Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Urban arthropod communities: Added value or just a blend of surrounding biodiversity?

(2011) Thomas Sattler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

How to manage the urban green to improve bird diversity and community structure

(2011) Simone Fontana et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Time for a change: dynamic urban ecology

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

Implications of species loss in freshwater fish assemblages

(2010) Anne E. Magurran et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

(2010) Eliane S. Meier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Spider, bee, and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity

(2010) T. Sattler et al.   ECOLOGY

Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management

(2010) T. Sattler et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Uncertainty in ensemble forecasting of species distribution

(2009) LAËTITIA BUISSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras

(2008) Nicholas S.G. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY