From the forest to the city: the persistence of dragonflies and damselflies in the urban jungle

Using functional traits and phylogeny to understand local extinction risk in dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)

(2022) Jukka Suhonen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Resilient dragons: Exploring Odonata communities in an urbanization gradient

(2022) Catalina M. Suárez-Tovar et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

United colours of the city: A review about urbanisation impact on animal colours

(2021) Lucas Leveau   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Environmental integrity as a modeler of the composition of the Odonata community

(2021) Lucas Pereira-Moura et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Urbanization as a disrupter and facilitator of insect herbivore behaviors and life cycles

(2021) Lauren Schmitt et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

A Review of the Impacts and Opportunities for African Urban Dragonflies

(2021) Charl Deacon et al.   Insects

Impact of environmental changes on the behavioral diversity of the Odonata (Insecta) in the Amazon

(2021) Bethânia O. de Resende et al.   Scientific Reports

Urban Areas Create Refugia for Odonates in a Semi-Arid Region

(2021) Danielle M. Husband et al.   Insects

Deep Ancestral Introgression Shapes Evolutionary History of Dragonflies and Damselflies

(2021) Anton Suvorov et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Effects of Landscape Patterns and Their Changes to Species Richness, Species Composition, and the Conservation Value of Odonates (Insecta)

(2021) Aleš Dolný et al.   Insects

High biodiversity in a city centre: odonatofauna in an abandoned limestone quarry

(2021) Rafał Bobrek   European Journal of Environmental Sciences

Negative effects of urbanisation on the physical condition of an endemic dung beetle from a neotropical hotspot

(2020) Renato Portela Salomão et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Why do bugs perish? Range size and local vulnerability traits as surrogates of Odonata extinction risk

(2020) Maya Rocha-Ortega et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Influences of Physical Vegetation Management on Odonata Abundance in Urbanized Ecosystem: a Case Study in Northern Taiwan

(2020) Pin-Yuan Chen et al.   WETLANDS

Water quality effects on dragonfly and damselfly nymph communities: A comparison of urban and natural ponds

(2020) Mary Ann C. Perron et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Urbanisation is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Urban moth communities suggest that life in the city favours thermophilic multi-dimensional generalists

(2020) Markus Franzén et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Urban streams in Latin America: Current conditions and research needs

(2020) Jeymmy M. Walteros et al.   REVISTA DE BIOLOGIA TROPICAL

If you build it, they will come: rapid colonization by dragonflies in a new effluent-dependent river reach

(2020) Michael T. Bogan et al.   PeerJ

Environmental variables drive differences in the beta diversity of dragonfly assemblages among urban stormwater ponds

(2019) F. Johansson et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Heterogenic aquatic vegetation promotes abundance and species richness of Odonata (Insecta) in constructed agricultural wetlands

(2019) Ida‐Maria Huikkonen et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Road related pollutants induced DNA damage in dragonfly nymphs (Odonata, Anisoptera) living in highway sedimentation ponds

(2019) Sondre Meland et al.   Scientific Reports

Stormwater ponds as habitat for Odonata in urban areas: the importance of obligate wetland plant species

(2019) Mary Ann C. Perron et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The odonate phenotypic database, a new open data resource for comparative studies of an old insect order

(2019) John T. Waller et al.   Scientific Data

Are Odonata nymph adversely affected by impaired water quality in urban streams

(2018) Carl Tippler et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Determinant landscape-scale factors on pond odonate assemblages

(2018) Mickaël Le Gall et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Lentic and lotic odonate communities and the factors that influence them in urban versus rural landscapes

(2018) Victoria A. Prescott et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

phylopath: Easy phylogenetic path analysis in R

(2018) Wouter van der Bijl   PeerJ

Urbanization versus other land use: Diverging effects on dragonfly communities in Germany

(2018) Diana Goertzen et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Body size evolution in an old insect order: No evidence for Cope's Rule in spite of fitness benefits of large size

(2017) John T. Waller et al.   EVOLUTION

Sexual selection reinforces a higher flight endurance in urban damselflies

(2017) Nedim Tüzün et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The impacts of habitat disturbance on adult and larval dragonflies (Odonata) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

(2017) Sarah H. Luke et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Environmental noise reduces predation rate in an aquatic invertebrate

(2017) Giovanna Villalobos-Jiménez et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Evolution of life in urban environments

(2017) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Export of aquatic productivity, including highly unsaturated fatty acids, to terrestrial ecosystems via Odonata

(2017) Olga N. Popova et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A balancing act in urban social-ecology: human appreciation, ponds and dragonflies

(2017) Robin Wen Jiang Ngiam et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Artificial ponds increase local dragonfly diversity in a global biodiversity hotspot

(2016) John P. Simaika et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Agonistic urban birds: elevated territorial aggression of urban song sparrows is individually consistent within a breeding period

(2016) Scott Davies et al.   Biology Letters

Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) in urban ecosystems: A review

(2016) Giovanna VILLALOBOS-JIMENEZ et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) in urban ecosystems: A review

(2016) Giovanna VILLALOBOS-JIMENEZ et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Analysis of urban impacts on aquatic habitats in the central Amazon basin: Adult odonates as bioindicators of environmental quality

(2015) Cláudio da Silva Monteiro Júnior et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Fine-scale urbanization affects Odonata species diversity in ponds of a megacity (Paris, France)

(2014) Martin Jeanmougin et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes in occurrence, richness, and biological traits of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) in California and Nevada over the past century

(2014) Joan E. Ball-Damerow et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Risk of Local Extinction of Odonata Freshwater Habitat Generalists and Specialists

(2014) JUKKA SUHONEN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Patterns in the diversity of dragonflies (Odonata) in cities across Central Europe

(2014) Christoph WILLIGALLA et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Central European cities maintain substantial dragonfly species richness - a chance for biodiversity conservation?

(2014) Diana Goertzen et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Effects of urbanization on stream habitats and associated adult dragonfly and damselfly communities in central Brazilian Amazonia

(2014) C.S. Monteiro-Júnior et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The Odonata of Wayne County, MI: Inspiration for Renewed Monitoring of Urban Areas

(2013) Julie A. Craves et al.   NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST

Signatures of Rapid Evolution in Urban and Rural Transcriptomes of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in the New York Metropolitan Area

(2013) Stephen E. Harris et al.   PLoS One

DISENTANGLING EVOLUTIONARY CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHYLOGENETIC CONFIRMATORY PATH ANALYSIS

(2012) Achaz von Hardenberg et al.   EVOLUTION

Implications of anthropogenic disturbance factors on the Odonata assemblage in a Mediterranean fluvial system

(2012) Manuel Ferreras-Romero et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ODONATOLOGY

Ecology of Sexual Dimorphism and Clinal Variation of Coloration in a Damselfly

(2010) Idelle A. Cooper   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Urban drainage systems: An undervalued habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrates

(2009) Kim Vermonden et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

(2009) Marc L. Imhoff et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative biodiversity of aquatic habitats in the European agricultural landscape

(2007) Bella Davies et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT