Functional diversity and habitat preferences of native grassland plants and ground‐dwelling invertebrates in private gardens along an urbanization gradient

Greenspace sites conserve taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in an urbanized landscape in the Brazilian Cerrado

(2021) César M. A. Correa et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Owners’ Perceptions Do Not Match Actual Ground-Dwelling Invertebrate Diversity in Their Gardens

(2021) Brigitte Braschler et al.   Diversity-Basel

Species and functional diversity — A better understanding of the impact of urbanization on bee communities

(2021) Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

(2020) Michael J. Samways et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Local‐ and landscape‐scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hot spot

(2020) Benjamin J. Adams et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Urbanization drivers differentially affect ground arthropod assemblages in the city of Turin (NW-Italy)

(2020) Elena Piano et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis

(2020) Burak Güneralp et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Negative effects of urbanization on terrestrial arthropod communities: A meta‐analysis

(2020) María Silvina Fenoglio et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Local and landscape‐scale environmental filters drive the functional diversity and taxonomic composition of spiders across urban greenspaces

(2020) Yvan A. Delgado de la flor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Species richness and functional diversity of isopod communities vary across an urbanisation gradient, but the direction and strength depend on soil type

(2020) A. Ooms et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships

(2020) Sascha Buchholz et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanization

(2020) Tibor Magura et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen

(2020) Wilco C.E.P. Verberk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Ground-dwelling invertebrate diversity in domestic gardens along a rural-urban gradient: Landscape characteristics are more important than garden characteristics

(2020) Brigitte Braschler et al.   PLoS One

When cities are the last chance for saving species

(2019) Kylie Soanes et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Rove beetles of the genus Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Russia: a key to species and annotated catalogue

(2019) Maria Salnitska et al.   ZooKeys

Urban bumblebees are smaller and more phenotypically diverse than their rural counterparts

(2019) Helen Eggenberger et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect effects of urban gardening on aboveground and belowground diversity influencing soil multifunctionality

(2019) Simon Tresch et al.   Scientific Reports

Urbanization drives cross‐taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales

(2019) Elena Piano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global social and environmental change drives the management and delivery of ecosystem services from urban gardens: A case study from Central Coast, California

(2019) Brenda B. Lin et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Taxonomic and Functional Response of Millipedes (Diplopoda) to Urban Soil Disturbance in a Metropolitan Area

(2019) Zsolt Tóth et al.   Insects

Wild bees in urban grasslands: Urbanisation, functional diversity and species traits

(2019) Sascha Buchholz et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Diverse effects of degree of urbanisation and forest size on species richness and functional diversity of plants, and ground surface-active ants and spiders

(2018) Ramona Laila Melliger et al.   PLoS One

Arthropod assemblages and functional responses along an urbanization gradient: A trait-based multi-taxa approach

(2018) Dávid D. Nagy et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density

(2018) April L. Hamblin et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Trait‐based ecology of terrestrial arthropods

(2018) Mark K. L. Wong et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Morphological traits – desiccation resistance – habitat characteristics: a possible key for distribution in woodlice (Isopoda, Oniscidea)

(2018) Diána Csonka et al.   ZooKeys

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

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

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

(2017) Elena Piano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biotic homogenization in an increasingly urbanized temperate grassland ecosystem

(2017) Ben J. Zeeman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A taxonomic review of the Korean species of the subgenus Datomicra Mulsant & Rey of the genus Atheta Thomson, with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

(2017) SEUNG-GYU LEE et al.   ZOOTAXA

Patterns of pollinator turnover and increasing diversity associated with urban habitats

(2017) Kyle T. Martins et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Habitat- and matrix-related differences in species diversity and trait richness of vascular plants, Orthoptera and Lepidoptera in an urban landscape

(2017) Ramona Laila Melliger et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands

(2016) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Further contributions to the staphylinid fauna of New Brunswick, Canada, and the USA, with descriptions of two new Proteinus species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

(2016) Reginald P. Webster et al.   ZooKeys

Decomposing functional diversity

(2016) Samuel M. Scheiner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

Biotic homogenization of three insect groups due to urbanization

(2015) Eva Knop   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

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

Millipede (Diplopoda) assemblages alter drastically by urbanisation

(2015) David Bogyó et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

(2015) Elena D. Concepción et al.   OIKOS

Hay-bait traps are a useful tool for sampling of soil dwelling millipedes and centipedes

(2015) Ivan H. Tuf et al.   ZooKeys

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

Higher mobility of butterflies than moths connected to habitat suitability and body size in a release experiment

(2014) Mikko Kuussaari et al.   Ecology and Evolution

REVIEW: Managing urban ecosystems for goods and services

(2013) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Rove beetles respond heterogeneously to urbanization

(2013) Tibor Magura et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Local and landscape drivers of arthropod abundance, richness, and trophic composition in urban habitats

(2013) Stacy M. Philpott et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Ignoring ecological demands masks the real effect of urbanization: a case study of ground-dwelling spiders along a rural–urban gradient in a lowland forest in Hungary

(2012) Roland Horváth et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

(2012) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY

Local gardening practices shape urban lawn floristic communities

(2012) Alzira Politi Bertoncini et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The domestic garden – Its contribution to urban green infrastructure

(2012) Ross W.F. Cameron et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Global Patterns of Guild Composition and Functional Diversity of Spiders

(2011) Pedro Cardoso et al.   PLoS One

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

(2010) Sean B. Menke et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

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