Biodiversity and socioeconomics in the city: a review of the luxury effect

Is there a relationship between socio-economic factors and biodiversity in urban ponds? A study in the city of Stockholm

(2017) Malgorzata Blicharska et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Exoskeletons and economics: indoor arthropod diversity increases in affluent neighbourhoods

(2016) Misha Leong et al.   Biology Letters

A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology

(2016) J. T. Reager et al.   SCIENCE

Birds and the City: Urban Biodiversity, Land Use, and Socioeconomics

(2016) Michael W. Strohbach et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Urban mesopredator distribution: examining the relative effects of landscape and socioeconomic factors

(2015) S. B. Magle et al.   ANIMAL 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

Urban stress is associated with variation in microbial species composition—but not richness—in Manhattan

(2015) Aspen T Reese et al.   ISME Journal

Influence of socioeconomic status on design of Batswana home gardens and associated plant diversity patterns in northern South Africa

(2015) Elandrie Davoren et al.   Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Different social drivers, including perceptions of urban wildlife, explain the ecological resources in residential landscapes

(2015) J. Amy Belaire et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and direct ecosystem service regulation in the community gardens of Los Angeles, CA

(2015) Lorraine Weller Clarke et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

Trees Grow on Money: Urban Tree Canopy Cover and Environmental Justice

(2015) Kirsten Schwarz et al.   PLoS One

Microbial ‘old friends’, immunoregulation and socioeconomic status

(2014) G. A. W. Rook et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY

Socioeconomic drivers of yard sustainable practices in a tropical city

(2014) Elvia J. Meléndez-Ackerman et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

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

Patch or mosaic: bat activity responds to fine-scale urban heterogeneity in a medium-sized city in the United States

(2014) Han Li et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Garden Size, Householder Knowledge, and Socio-Economic Status Influence Plant and Bird Diversity at the Scale of Individual Gardens

(2013) Yolanda van Heezik et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Heat Risk–Related Land Cover in Relation to Residential Segregation

(2013) Bill M. Jesdale et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Urban vegetation and income segregation in drylands: a synthesis of seven metropolitan regions in the southwestern United States

(2013) G Darrel Jenerette et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The luxury of vegetation and the legacy of tree biodiversity in Los Angeles, CA

(2013) Lorraine Weller Clarke et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Determining socioeconomic drivers of urban forest fragmentation with historical remote sensing images

(2013) Chongfeng Gong et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban Warming Drives Insect Pest Abundance on Street Trees

(2013) Emily K. Meineke et al.   PLoS One

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

Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome

(2012) Steven W Kembel et al.   ISME Journal

Domestic garden plant diversity in Bujumbura, Burundi: Role of the socio-economical status of the neighborhood and alien species invasion risk

(2012) Joseph Bigirimana et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated

(2012) I. Hanski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Socio-economic variables as indicators of pond conservation value in an urban landscape

(2012) David G Gledhill et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The conservation value of residential yards: linking birds and people

(2011) Susannah B. Lerman et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Temporal and spatial variation in garden and street trees in six eastern Australian cities

(2011) J.B. Kirkpatrick et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Time for a change: dynamic urban ecology

(2011) Cristina E. Ramalho et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Determinants of urban tree canopy in residential neighborhoods: Household characteristics, urban form, and the geophysical landscape

(2011) John H. Lowry et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Global Mapping of Ecosystem Disservices: The Unspoken Reality that Nature Sometimes Kills us

(2010) Robert R. Dunn   BIOTROPICA

Relationships between avian diversity, neighborhood age, income, and environmental characteristics of an urban landscape

(2009) Scott R. Loss et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Socio-Economics and Vegetation Change in Urban Ecosystems: Patterns in Space and Time

(2009) Gary W. Luck et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A new dawn for citizen science

(2009) Jonathan Silvertown   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

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