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Concrete jungle to urban oasis: evaluating scale, vegetation cover, and aggregation of urban greenspaces on wildlife

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban greenspaces are a haven for wildlife in densely populated cities. Wildlife use greenspaces for resource acquisition, shelter, and travel across urbanized landscapes. Greenspace metrics such as herbaceous or woody landcover, size, patchiness, and human land use influence species richness.
Adrianna J. Elihu, Janel L. Ortiz
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 1641-1661, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
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Monitoring urban growth and landscape fragmentation in Kaduna, Nigeria, using remote sensing approach

Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management
This study assessed urban growth in Kaduna using remote sensing indices, landscape metrics, and Landsat images (2003, 2013, and 2023). Land use/land cover was carried out using the decision tree algorithm, while the transition matrix was computed using ...
Kabir Musa, Muhammad Lawal Abubakar
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Species Distribution Models and Abundance Estimates Enhance Breeding Bird Atlas Data

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
Our primary goal was to leverage the large amount of systematic and volunteer‐based data produced by the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas to develop species distribution models and population estimates for as many breeding bird species as possible. We utilized three complementary techniques to develop species distribution models and maps for 136 breeding ...
Nicholas G. Walton, Edmund J. Zlonis, Péter Sólymos, Alexis R. Grinde, Gerald J. Niemi   +4 more
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Influence of land cover features on avian community and potential conservation priority areas for biodiversity at a Ramsar site in India

Ecological Processes, 2022
Background Wetlands provide diverse ecological services to sustain rich biodiversity, but they are recklessly exploited around the globe. East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW; Ramsar site No.
Souvik Barik, Goutam Kumar Saha, Subhendu Mazumdar   +2 more
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Variations in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Two Anurans Along an Urbanization Gradient in Shanghai: Assessment of Rensch's Rule

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Variations in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) have important consequences for animal ecology, behavior, population dynamics, and the evolution of life‐history traits, and can be explained by many intraspecific and interpopulation hypotheses. Urbanization is an important factor that affects anuran phenotypic characteristics (including morphology),
Ben Li, Ningning Liu, Shurong Zhong, Tianhou Wang, Rongquan Zheng, Qing Song, Zhenghuan Wang, Wei Zhang   +7 more
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Application of landscape metrics in the evaluation of geodiversity

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2013
The purpose of this study is to present opportunities for using landscape metrics to evaluate geodiversity on individual landscape levels. The research area is located to the west of the Płock Urban and Industrial Agglomeration in Poland.
Malinowska Ewa, Szumacher Iwona
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Biodiversity and biomass co‐regulate urban forest drought resistance

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 24, Issue 5, June 2026.
Severe droughts induced by climate change present substantial challenges to urban forests. While the role that species richness plays in enhancing drought resistance in natural ecosystems has been highlighted in previous studies, its impact within urban forests remains less understood.
Xiaoling Wang, Bin Chen, Zhiwen Gao, Alice Hughes, Kun Song, Liangjun Da   +5 more
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Análise temporal da fragmentação florestal no leste da Amazônia legal

Novos Cadernos NAEA, 2019
Neste estudo foram avaliadas as mudanças estruturais dos fragmentos florestais superiores a 1km2 localizados na porção norte da área do Centro de Endemismo Belém (CEB).
Leila Sheila Lisboa, Arlete Silva de Almeida, Wanja Janayna Lameira   +2 more
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The Power of Land: Structure and Function Transitions Steering China's Sustainable Development Goal Pathways

Earth's Future, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract In the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) entering its final critical window, it is essential that a more forward‐looking urban land‐management system be constructed, as land space constitute the core spatial carriers of the SDGs.
Guoen Wei, Zixuan Rao, Ruzi Li, Changjia Li, Xiao Ouyang, Tongning Li, Shuoshuo Li, Xi Tian, Christopher Lyon, Weifeng Deng, Longwu Liang, Yiting Yang, Kang Luo, Yaobin Liu, Chuanglin Fang   +14 more
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