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

Approaches to urban vegetation management and the impacts on urban bird and bat assemblages

(2016) Caragh G. Threlfall et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Drivers of biodiversity patterns in parks of a growing South American megacity

(2016) Leonie Katharina Fischer et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Contrasting impacts of pesticides on butterflies and bumblebees in private gardens in France

(2015) Audrey Muratet et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Rich lizards: How affluence and land cover influence the diversity and abundance of desert reptiles persisting in an urban landscape

(2015) Jeffrey W. Ackley 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

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

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

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

The biodiversity-ecosystem service relationship in urban areas: a quantitative review

(2015) Carly Ziter   OIKOS

A broad scale analysis of tree risk, mitigation and potential habitat for cavity-nesting birds

(2015) Brian Kane et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

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

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

The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in planning discourses of European and American cities

(2015) Rieke Hansen et al.   Ecosystem Services

Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation

(2015) Paul A. Sandifer et al.   Ecosystem Services

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

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

Having our yards and sharing them too: the collective effects of yards on native bird species in an urban landscape

(2014) J. Amy Belaire et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

An Ecology of Prestige in New York City: Examining the Relationships Among Population Density, Socio-economic Status, Group Identity, and Residential Canopy Cover

(2014) J. Morgan Grove et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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

A critique of the ‘novel ecosystem’ concept

(2014) Carolina Murcia et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Exotics on exotics: Pollen analysis of urban bees visiting Sedum on a green roof

(2014) J. Scott MacIvor et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Native plants are the bee’s knees: local and landscape predictors of bee richness and abundance in backyard gardens

(2014) Gabriella L. Pardee et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

REVIEW: Managing urban ecosystems for goods and services

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

Covenants, cohesion, and community: The effects of neighborhood governance on lawn fertilization

(2013) James Curtis Fraser et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Sustainable plants in urban parks: A life cycle analysis of traditional and alternative lawns in Georgia, USA

(2013) Sergiy M. Smetana et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Supplying urban ecosystem services through multifunctional green infrastructure in the United States

(2013) Sarah Taylor Lovell et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Why garden for wildlife? Social and ecological drivers, motivations and barriers for biodiversity management in residential landscapes

(2012) Mark A. Goddard et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Homeowner Associations as a Vehicle for Promoting Native Urban Biodiversity

(2012) Susannah B. Lerman et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Local gardening practices shape urban lawn floristic communities

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

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

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecosystem services of urban green spaces in African countries—perspectives and challenges

(2012) Sarel Cilliers et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The value of urban open space: Meta-analyses of contingent valuation and hedonic pricing results

(2011) Luke M. Brander et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The distribution, abundance and composition of street trees in selected towns of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

(2011) Chiyedza Kuruneri-Chitepo et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Residential landscapes as social-ecological systems: a synthesis of multi-scalar interactions between people and their home environment

(2011) Elizabeth M. Cook et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Using bird–habitat relationships to inform urban planning

(2010) Karen Stagoll et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

(2009) Mark A. Goddard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

URban Biotopes of Aotearoa New Zealand (URBANZ) (I): composition and diversity of temperate urban lawns in Christchurch

(2009) Glenn H. Stewart et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Impact of Native Plants on Bird and Butterfly Biodiversity in Suburban Landscapes

(2008) KARIN T. BURGHARDT et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY