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Vacant urban lot soils and their potential to support ecosystem services

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

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How can wastelands promote biodiversity in cities? A review

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Urbanization promotes non-native woody species and diverse plant assemblages in the New York metropolitan region

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New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

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Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

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Contrasting patterns in species richness of birds, butterflies and plants along riparian corridors in an urban landscape

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

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

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The New Ecology of Vacancy: Rethinking Land Use in Shrinking Cities

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Seed Supply, Recruitment, and Assembly: Quantifying Relative Seed and Establishment Limitation in a Plant Community Context

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Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

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Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape

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Using biological traits to assess how urbanization filters plant species of small woodlands

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

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(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What does species richness tell us about functional trait diversity? Predictions and evidence for responses of species and functional trait diversity to land-use change

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Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress

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Seed arrival, ecological filters, and plant species richness: a meta-analysis

(2009) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation

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

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

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