How to improve urban greenspace for woodland birds: site and local-scale determinants of bird species richness

Local and management variables outweigh landscape effects in enhancing the diversity of different taxa in a big metropolis

(2012) Assaf Shwartz et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity and the Feel-Good Factor: Understanding Associations between Self-Reported Human Well-being and Species Richness

(2012) Martin Dallimer et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The conservation value of residential yards: linking birds and people

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

Avifauna richness enhanced in large, isolated urban parks

(2011) Amanda J. Oliver et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

How to manage the urban green to improve bird diversity and community structure

(2011) Simone Fontana et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Birds are also sensitive to landscape composition and configuration within the city centre

(2011) Vincent Pellissier et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Does size really matter? Species-area relationships in human settlements

(2010) Ian MacGregor-Fors et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems

(2010) Marco Pautasso et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Avian population dynamics and human induced change in an urban environment

(2010) Philip James et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Urbanization and riparian forest woody communities: Diversity, composition, and structure within a metropolitan landscape

(2009) Derric N. Pennington et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The effects of diet quality and quantity on plumage colour and growth of great titParus majornestlings: a food manipulation experiment along a pollution gradient

(2009) Tapio Eeva et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

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

Forest bird communities across a gradient of urban development

(2009) Emily Minor et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Assessing the impact of local habitat variables and landscape context on riparian birds in agricultural, urbanized, and native landscapes

(2008) David Luther et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Determinants of native avian richness in suburban remnant vegetation: Implications for conservation planning

(2008) Grant C. Palmer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Habitat influences on urban avian assemblages

(2008) KARL L. EVANS et al.   IBIS

Seasonal variation in species composition of an urban bird community in Mediterranean France

(2008) Sabina Caula et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Bird community responses along urban–rural gradients: Does the size of the urbanized area matter?

(2008) Pablo I. Garaffa et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Suburban habitats and their role for birds in the urban–rural habitat network: points of local invasion and extinction?

(2008) Robert B. Blair et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Small urban woodlands as biodiversity conservation hot-spot: a multi-taxon approach

(2008) Solène Croci et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

How do habitat variability and management regime shape the spatial heterogeneity of birds within a large Mediterranean urban park?

(2007) Assaf Shwartz et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING