Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14(1)

Опубликована: Авг. 7, 2023

Cities can host significant biological diversity. Yet, urbanisation leads to the loss of habitats, species, and functional groups. Understanding how multiple taxa respond globally is essential promote conserve biodiversity in cities. Using a dataset encompassing six terrestrial faunal (amphibians, bats, bees, birds, carabid beetles reptiles) across 379 cities on 6 continents, we show that produces taxon-specific changes trait composition, with traits related reproductive strategy showing strongest response. Our findings suggest results four syndromes (mobile generalists, site specialists, central place foragers, mobile specialists), resources associated reproduction diet likely driving patterns mobility body size. Functional diversity measures showed varied responses, leading shifts space driven by critical resource distribution abundance, syndromes. Maximising opportunities support different urban should be pivotal conservation management programmes within among This will reduce likelihood biotic homogenisation helps ensure environments have capacity future challenges. These actions are reframe role global loss.

Язык: Английский

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Global patterns in urban green space are strongly linked to human development and population density

Urban forestry & urban greening, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 86, С. 127980 - 127980

Опубликована: Май 31, 2023

Urban green space is important for alleviating high temperatures, pollution, and flooding in cities. Furthermore, it becoming increasingly clear that urban the mental physical health of humans residing cities may harbor unique biodiversity. Understanding extent drivers thus important. While has been mapped studied at local to national scales, global patterns remain unknown, potentially hampering effective planning allocation resources toward reaching sustainable development goals. Here, we quantified effect environmental socio-economic (temperature, precipitation, human development, population density) on globally by focusing capital We used satellite imagery map using two measures: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), fractional cover "green" land classes. NDVI useful as includes all vegetated surfaces, also small ones like gardens. However, classes allow exclusion certain such sports fields or cropland. boosted regression trees show climatic variables accounted 75% relative influence space, with a positive precipitation negative temperature. Importantly, socioeconomic 25% index (HDI) density. HDI relation not previously tested globally, our study shows significantly affects greenspace. The results demonstrate where status low densities are high, typically Global South, have less than climate would predict. therefore suggest wellbeing does only benefit directly from increasing decreasing areas, but these effects be compounded improving nature's contribution people.

Язык: Английский

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Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature

Опубликована: Март 25, 2025

In an increasingly urbanized world, urban biodiversity is people's primary contact with nature. However, as cities expand and densify, green blue spaces their are under pressure, risking declines in liveability. This Review discusses the benefits of multiple challenges it faces, identifies opportunities pathways towards developing sustainable, biodiverse for both humans The substantial biological richness that areas can harbour helps to mitigate environmental pressures, address adapt climate change, human health well-being. challenged by competition space, pressures declining engagement residents Understanding underlying mechanisms informs efforts create maintain high-quality blue–green infrastructure. Biodiversity-sensitive socially inclusive governance planning key biodiverse, cities. Urban policies should move cross-sectional approaches coordinate sectors such health, education, design. Developing shared environments nature contributes global conservation offers solutions social faced underpins ecosystem services cities, but faces from activities, nature, inadequate systems. provided biodiversity, its promotion conservation.

Язык: Английский

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Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers

Conservation Letters, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(3)

Опубликована: Март 14, 2023

Abstract Urban biodiversity conservation is critical if cities are to tackle the biodiversity‐extinction crisis and connect people with nature. However, little attention has been paid how urban environmental managers navigate complex socio‐ecological contexts conserve in cities. We interviewed from Australian identify (1) breadth of actions undertaken (2) barriers enablers action. found current practice be more diverse, innovative, proactive than previously described (318 across nine categories). Conversely, priority identified by literature yet “mainstream” (e.g., designing for human–nature connection, securing space nature cities). Further, we a suite levers overcome barriers. Our research provides scientists practitioners an understanding multiple facets emphasizes importance interdisciplinary approaches future practice.

Язык: Английский

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Urban biodiversity, ecosystems and the city. Insights from 50 years of the Berlin School of urban ecology

Landscape and Urban Planning, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 240, С. 104877 - 104877

Опубликована: Сен. 6, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Urbanization, climate and species traits shape mammal communities from local to continental scales

Nature Ecology & Evolution, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 7(10), С. 1654 - 1666

Опубликована: Сен. 4, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Urban oases: the social-ecological importance of small urban green spaces

Ecosystems and People, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 20(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 20, 2024

Global challenges around biodiversity loss, climate change, and public health are heightening the importance of urban green spaces for supporting ecosystem services human wellbeing. Trees, parks forests integrated across cityscapes proposed strategies to combat change promote current future cities. This is true small spaces, perhaps just < 1 ha in size. Depending on their structure size, these can provide structural vegetation complexity, species diversity, regulate temperatures offer thermal comfort. These also recreation opportunity, nature experience, sense belonging, restoration people. As cities densify, it crucial understand where dimensions intersect theory practice design manage particular, as systems may be easier than large implement planning. In this paper, we narratively review known biophysical ecological properties that support biodiversity, temperature regulation resilience, ultimately benefit residents' through different use activities multisensory experiences Furthermore, how stakeholder engagement participatory processes guide equitable space provision design, case studies our own research examples. doing so, paper aims further understanding social-ecological calls inter- transdisciplinary generates insight protect places a changing climate.

Язык: Английский

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Urbanization reduces diversity, simplifies community and filter bird species based on their functional traits in a tropical city

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 935, С. 173379 - 173379

Опубликована: Май 24, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Urban biodiversity is affected by human-designed features of public squares

Nature Cities, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Сен. 11, 2024

Язык: Английский

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A systematic literature review of citizen science in urban studies and regional urban planning: policy, practical, and research implications

Urban Ecosystems, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 28(2)

Опубликована: Фев. 21, 2025

Язык: Английский

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