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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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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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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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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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Evidence that a Highway Reduces Apparent Survival Rates of Squirrel Gliders
Ecology and Society, 2010 Roads and traffic are prominent components of most landscapes throughout the world, and their negative effects on the natural environment can extend for hundreds or thousands of meters beyond the road.
Sarah C. McCall +5 more
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Land, 2022 Intensive urban land use has been proposed as a method to promote sustainable development in the context of rapid urban sprawl. However, a consensus has not been reached on whether this approach is beneficial for ecology and compatible with suitable ...
Bingqing Li, Zhanqi Wang, Ji Chai
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A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology
Evolutionary Applications, 2019 Urban ecosystems are rapidly expanding throughout the world, but how urban growth affects the evolutionary ecology of species living in urban areas remains largely unknown. Urban ecology has advanced our understanding of how the development of cities and
L. Ruth Rivkin +25 more
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iMeta, 2023 Airborne microorganisms, including pathogens, would change with surrounding environments and become issues of global concern due to their threats to human health. Microbial communities typically contain a few abundant but many rare species.
Hu Li +7 more
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