Citizen Science and the Urban Ecology of Birds and Butterflies - A Systematic Review. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Citizen science has gained widespread currency as a tool for ecological research over the past decade. However, in the discipline of urban ecology, the existing contributions and future potential of citizen science engagement, specifically in terms of ...
James Wang Wei +2 more
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Research on Urban Waterfront Landscape Design Based on Ecological Urbanism [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 In the overall urban environment the urban waterfront landscape area plays a dual function of landscape and culture, and is an important incubator for the natural ecology of the city.
Wu Xukun
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Decline in Distribution and Abundance: Urban Hedgehogs under Pressure
Animals, 2020 Increasing urbanization and densification are two of the largest global threats to biodiversity. However, certain species thrive in urban spaces. Hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus have been found in higher densities in green areas of settlements as compared ...
Anouk L. Taucher +5 more
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Seeing the invisible: from imagined to virtual urban landscapes [PDF]
, 2020 Urban ecosystems consist of infrastructure features working together to provide services for inhabitants. Infrastructure functions akin to an ecosystem, having dynamic relationships and interdependencies.
Gopal, Sucharita +3 more
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Urban political ecology in prospect and retrospect
Sub\urban, 2021 The contemporary theorization of the urban biosphere has reached something of an impasse between the perceived limitations of urban political ecology, the neo-Lefebvrian emphasis on global patterns of urbanization, and the rise of “new materialisms ...
Matthew Gandy
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Diet contributes to urban-induced alterations in gut microbiota : experimental evidence from a wild passerine [PDF]
, 2020 Urban sprawl increasingly affects the ecology of natural populations, including host-microbiota interactions, with observed differences in the gut microbiota between urban and rural hosts.
De Neve, Liesbeth +5 more
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Say where you sample: Increasing site selection transparency in urban ecology
Ecosphere, 2023 Urban ecological studies have the potential to expand our understanding of socioecological systems beyond that of an individual city or region. Cross‐comparative empirical work and synthesis are imperative to develop a general urban ecological theory ...
Karen Dyson +4 more
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New directions of biology and biotechnology in urban environmental sciences [PDF]
Hemijska Industrija, 2021 Living organisms and biological methods are widely used in recycling urban waste and improving the quality of the urban environment. Urban biology is a branch of biology that studies organisms living in cities.
Gladkov Evgeny Aleksandrovich +1 more
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The Transformation of the Concept of an Urban Ecosystem: Classical and Modern Urban Ecology
Sociologija: Mintis ir Veiksmas, 2018 Contemporary trends in urban development indicate that its processes rarely observe ecocentric perspectives, under which nature is considered as a value. This concept is represented by modern urban ecology. Meanwhile, the urban ecosystem, as a concept of
Darius Žiemelis
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Habitat structure: a fundamental concept and framework for urban soil ecology [PDF]
, 2007 Habitat structure is defined as the composition and arrangement of physical matter at a location. Although habitat structure is the physical template underlying ecological patterns and processes, the concept is relatively unappreciated and underdeveloped
BC Scharenbroch +62 more
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