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Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

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Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

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Local diversity stays about the same, regional diversity increases, and global diversity declines

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Daphne: a dated phylogeny of a large European flora for phylogenetically informed ecological analyses

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Diversity of plant evolutionary lineages promotes arthropod diversity

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Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

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Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

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Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

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Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

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A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas

(2009) Amy K. Hahs et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phyloecology of urban alien floras

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Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

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Challenging urban species diversity: contrasting phylogenetic patterns across plant functional groups in Germany

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