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People and Nature, 2022 Cities are seen as quintessentially human; however, because they can offer viable habitat to many plants, animals and other forms of life, cities are also dynamic ecosystems.
Cria A. M. Kay +11 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Encounters with rats in urban areas increase risk of human exposure to rat-associated zoonotic pathogens and act as a stressor associated with psychological distress.
Maureen H. Murray +6 more
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Behavior Change in Urban Mammals: A Systematic Review
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 As cities expand to accommodate a growing human population, their impacts to natural ecosystems and the wildlife residing within them increase.
Kate Ritzel, Travis Gallo
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CityScapeLab Berlin: A Research Platform for Untangling Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2020 Urban biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of how urbanization modulates biodiversity patterns and the associated ecosystem services. While important advances have been made in the conceptual development of urban biodiversity research over
Buchholz, Sascha +4 more
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Evolving Urban Wildlife Health Surveillance to Intelligence for Pest Mitigation and Monitoring
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 This paper introduces the concept of harm reduction-based health intelligence as the next step in the evolution of urban wildlife surveillance.
Craig Stephen
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Influences of roaming domestic cats on wildlife activity in patchy urban environments
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are recognised as a threat to wildlife globally. Yet management of pet cats in urbanised areas is not regularly mandated, and management of feral cats in urbanised areas is rarely implemented.
Loren L. Fardell +3 more
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It Is a Wild World in the City: Urban Wildlife Conservation and Communication in the Age of COVID-19
Diversity, 2022 Most ecosystems are increasingly being degraded and reduced by human activities at the local and global scales. In contrast, urban environments are expanding as increasing portions of humanity move into cities.
Ioana A. Coman +3 more
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Landscape metrics and indices : an overview of their use in landscape research [PDF]
, 2009 The aim of this overview paper is to analyze the use of various landscape metrics and landscape indices for the characterization of landscape structure and various processes at both landscape and ecosystem level.
Antrop, Marc +4 more
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Public Complaints Reflect Rat Relative Abundance Across Diverse Urban Neighborhoods
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Preventing infestations of rats is crucial for minimizing property damage and the transmission of rat-associated pathogens to humans. Due to the logistical challenges in assessing rat abundance over large areas, public officials must often use the number
Maureen H. Murray +10 more
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Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2022 Background: The human-opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) conflict has increased during the last decades mainly due to natural habitat loss, and mediated by generalist and opportunistic habits of opossums.
Karen N Rodríguez +2 more
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