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Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2023 Urban ecology is a rapidly growing research field that has to keep pace with the pressing need to tackle the sustainability crisis. As an inherently multi‐disciplinary field with close ties to practitioners and administrators, research synthesis and ...
S. Lokatis +15 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2023 Today, design disciplines such as ecological urbanism aim at fusing natural and social sciences to restore the equilibrium between social and natural systems, and in extenso the urban and natural environment.
Koenraad Danneels
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Force of Urbanization and Its Impact on Urban Ecology
Remote Sensing, 2022 Urbanization inevitably poses a threat to urban ecology by altering its external structure and internal attributes. Nighttime light (NTL) has become increasingly extensive and practical, offering a special perspective on the world in revealing ...
Meng Zhang +8 more
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A global assessment of research on urban ecology of reptiles: patterns, gaps and future directions
Animal Conservation, 2022 Global urban expansion has multiple impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Still, urban centres may play an important role in the conservation of reptiles, an undersampled, megadiverse and unevenly distributed group especially vulnerable to ...
P. Brum +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2022 In China, traditional food is a significant element of culture that affects human behaviors. The point of interest (POI) of traditional food restaurants’ location and their volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions affect the urban ecology. Rather than
Xiwei Shen +3 more
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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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Why Urban Ecology Matters in Ethiopia
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Three concurrent global environmental trends are particularly apparent: human population growth, urbanization, and climate change. Especially in countries such as Ethiopia in the Global South, all three are impacted by, and in turn have bearing upon ...
G. Perry +6 more
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A Review on Coastal Urban Ecology: Research Gaps, Challenges, and Needs
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Coastal urban areas have dramatically increased during the last decades, however, coastal research integrating the impacts and challenges facing urban areas is still scarce.
G. Graells +6 more
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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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