City “Green” Contributions: The Role of Urban Greenspaces as Reservoirs for Biodiversity

Árboles y arbustos registrados en el Parque Ecológico Molino de San Roque, Municipio de Xalapa, Veracruz

(2017) César Ruiz-Montiel et al.   Madera y Bosques

The ecological future of cities

(2016) M. J. McDonnell et al.   SCIENCE

Categorizing wildlife responses to urbanization and conservation implications of terminology

(2015) Jason D. Fischer et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How Many Butterflies Are There in a City of Circa Half a Million People?

(2015) Lorena Ramírez-Restrepo et al.   Sustainability

Birds at the urban fringe: avian community shifts in different peri-urban ecotones of a megacity

(2014) Aura Puga-Caballero et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Birds of a neotropical green city: an up-to-date review of the avifauna of the city of Xalapa with additional unpublished records

(2014) Fernando González-García et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

High diversity in an urban habitat: are some animal assemblages resilient to long-term anthropogenic change?

(2014) Benoit Guénard et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Multi-taxonomic diversity patterns in a neotropical green city: a rapid biological assessment

(2014) Ian MacGregor-Fors et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Selection of Multiple Umbrella Species for Functional and Taxonomic Diversity to Represent Urban Biodiversity

(2013) T. SATTLER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Contrasting Diversity Values: Statistical Inferences Based on Overlapping Confidence Intervals

(2013) Ian MacGregor-Fors et al.   PLoS One

Species richness in urban parks and its drivers: A review of empirical evidence

(2013) Anders Busse Nielsen et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages

(2012) R. K. Colwell et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Multitaxonomic Diversity Patterns along a Desert Riparian–Upland Gradient

(2012) Candan U. Soykan et al.   PLoS One

Conserving urban biodiversity? Creating green infrastructure is only the first step

(2011) Mark Hostetler 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

Fading from the forest: Bird community shifts related to urban park site-specific and landscape traits

(2011) Ian MacGregor-Fors et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

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

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

How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: redefining ‘peri-urban’ areas

(2010) Ian MacGregor-Fors   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress

(2010) S.T.A. Pickett et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Grasshopper response to reductions in habitat area as mediated by subfamily classification and life history traits

(2010) César R. Nufio et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas

(2009) Amy K. Hahs et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Living in the big city: Effects of urban land-use on bird community structure, diversity, and composition

(2009) Rubén Ortega-Álvarez et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Quantifying Plant Population Persistence in Human-Dominated Landscapes

(2008) DAWN M. LAWSON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Habitat influences on urban avian assemblages

(2008) KARL L. EVANS et al.   IBIS

The Urban Transformation of the Developing World

(2008) M. R. Montgomery   SCIENCE

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