575 Citations
A review of drivers of tree diversity in suburban areas: Research needs for North American cities
- Environmental Science
- 2016
Tree diversity is crucial to urban forest management. More diverse urban forests provide habitat for a wider range of organisms, increase resilience to pests and disease and, in cases where native…
Importance of Urban Biodiversity: A Case Study of Udaipur, India
- Environmental Science
- 2014
Urban ecosystems are complex social-ecological systems with important functions. These man-made ecosystems have certain areas with high biological diversity, including both remnant species and…
Urban Biodiversity and Cities’ Sustainable Development
- Environmental Science
- 2016
Urban growth and human competition for land have led to deep structural changes in the composition and dynamics of the landscape, significantly affecting the fragile rural/urban equilibrium.…
Urban biodiversity in an era of climate change: Towards an optimised landscape pattern in support of indigenous wildlife species in urban New Zealand
- Environmental Science
- 2018
Biodiversity is the basis of life on the planet Earth. Without biodiversity, ecosystems and the life within them will not thrive. Nevertheless, biodiversity currently grapples with unprecedented…
Plant and microbial biodiversity in urban forests and public gardens: Insights for cities’ sustainable development
- Environmental Science
- 2018
Differences in Response of Butterfly Diversity and Species Composition in Urban Parks to Land Cover and Local Habitat Variables
- Environmental ScienceForests
- 2021
Background and Objectives: As urbanisation is a significant global trend, there is a profound need for biodiversity protection in urban ecosystems. Moreover, the potential of urban green space to…
Interrelationship of birds and habitat features in urban greenspaces in Delhi, India
- Environmental Science
- 2009
Assessing the Effectiveness of Urban Nature Reserves on Biodiversity Conservation
- Environmental Science
- 2014
Around the globe, environmental policies have always favouredurban green spaces for recreation and tourism. But, these green spaces also serve as habitats for plant and animal species, facilitate…
Estimating the potential biodiversity impact of redeveloping small urban spaces: the Natural History Museum’s grounds
- Environmental SciencePeerJ
- 2017
Mixed-effects models were used to model the impact on species richness and species density of different habitat types, and to estimate these metrics in the current grounds and under proposed plans for redevelopment, which are estimated to result in a net gain in average biodiversity.
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Biodiversity relationships in urban and suburban parks in Flanders
- Environmental Science
- 2004
Conservation Where People Live and Work
- Environmental Science
- 2002
Abstract: Effective conservation planning requires information from well‐designed studies across a spectrum of land uses, ranging from wildlands to highly modified production landscapes and large…
The potential role of natural colonisation as a design tool for urban forestry — a pilot study
- Environmental Science
- 2000
Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation
- Environmental Science
- 2002
A the many human activities that cause habitat loss (Czech et al. 2000), urban development produces some of the greatest local extinction rates and frequently eliminates the large majority of native…
Species diversity of three major urban forest types in Guangzhou city, China
- Environmental Science
- 2001
The Effects of Human Socioeconomic Status and Cultural Characteristics on Urban Patterns of Biodiversity
- Environmental Science
- 2005
We present evidence that there can be substantial variation in species richness in residential areas differing in their socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. Many analyses of the impacts of…
Adapting silvicultural management systems to urban forests
- Environmental Science
- 2002
Abstract An important objective of forest science today is to better serve the cultural and recreational needs of a growing urban population. Forests are complex open systems with multiple functions…
How important are large vs. small forest remnants for the conservation of the woodland flora in an urban context
- Environmental Science
- 2003
Although overall the data showed a higher conservation value for large woods, some plant functional groups responded differently to fragmentation, illustrating that, for conservation strategies, studies considering the biotic characteristics of remnants should focus on the species number of particular plantfunctional groups, especially those with high conservation value.
Natural regeneration of trees in urban woodlands
- Environmental Science
- 2002
Abstract We studied tree regeneration, a key process for the existence of urban woodlands. We hypothesized that, besides the usual biological factors, anthropogenic ones (fragmentation, wear,…