Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

Science, Journal Year: 2008, Volume and Issue: 319(5864), P. 756 - 760

Published: Feb. 7, 2008

Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use cover, biodiversity, hydrosystems locally to regionally, urban waste discharge affects local global biogeochemical cycles climate. For urbanites, however, changes swamped by dramatic in the environment. ecology integrates natural social sciences study these radically altered environments their regional effects. Cities themselves present both problems solutions sustainability challenges an increasingly urbanized world.

Language: Английский

---

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 232, P. 8 - 27

Published: Jan. 31, 2019

Language: Английский

---

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

Urban Ecosystems, Journal Year: 2008, Volume and Issue: 11(2), P. 161 - 176

Published: Jan. 28, 2008

Language: Английский

---

Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2009, Volume and Issue: 24(12), P. 686 - 693

Published: Aug. 26, 2009

Language: Английский

---

How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation?

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2015, Volume and Issue: 31(1), P. 67 - 80

Published: Dec. 17, 2015

Language: Английский

---

Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2010, Volume and Issue: 92(3), P. 331 - 362

Published: Oct. 21, 2010

Language: Английский

---

Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation

Environmental Pollution, Journal Year: 2011, Volume and Issue: 159(8-9), P. 1974 - 1983

Published: April 14, 2011

Language: Английский

---

Urban ecology and sustainability: The state-of-the-science and future directions

Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2014, Volume and Issue: 125, P. 209 - 221

Published: March 4, 2014

Language: Английский

---

Evolution of life in urban environments

Science, Journal Year: 2017, Volume and Issue: 358(6363)

Published: Nov. 2, 2017

Our planet is an increasingly urbanized landscape, with over half of the human population residing in cities. Despite advances urban ecology, we do not adequately understand how urbanization affects evolution organisms, nor this may affect ecosystems and health. Here, review evidence for effects on microbes, plants, animals that inhabit Urbanization adaptive nonadaptive evolutionary processes shape genetic diversity within between populations. Rapid adaptation has facilitated success some native species areas, but it also allowed pests disease to spread more rapidly. The nascent field brings together efforts response environmental change while developing new hypotheses concerning infrastructure socioeconomic activity. next generation research will provide critical insight into importance sustainable interactions humans our city environments.

Language: Английский

---

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Journal Year: 2012, Volume and Issue: 88(3), P. 537 - 549

Published: Dec. 24, 2012

Increased urbanization represents a formidable challenge for wildlife. Nevertheless, few species appear to thrive in the evolutionarily novel environment created by cities, demonstrating remarkable adaptability of some animals. We argue that individuals can adjust their behaviours new selection pressures presented cities should have greater success urban habitats. Accordingly, wildlife often exhibit differ from those rural counterparts, changes food and den preferences adjustments structure signals. Research suggests behavioural flexibility (or phenotypic plasticity) may be an important characteristic succeeding environments. Moreover, or might possess traits (a particular temperament) are inherently well suited occupying habitats, such as high level disturbance tolerance. This members less ‘plastic’ naturally timid temperament likely disadvantaged high‐disturbance environments consequently precluded colonizing towns.

Language: Английский

---