Community (or citizen) science, the involvement of volunteers in scientific endeavors, has a
long history. Over the past few centuries, the contributions of volunteers to our …

Highlights•Insect biodiversity can increase, decrease, or be maintained across urban
gradients.•Biological and methodological factors can influence biodiversity trends.•A …

Our world is becoming increasingly urbanized with a growing human population
concentrated around cities. The expansion of urban areas has important consequences for …

Native bees are declining in many regions, often associated with loss of natural habitat.
Urbanisation replaces natural vegetation with a highly-modified landscape, where …

Residential yards are a form of urban land use that cover a considerable amount of area in
cities worldwide and provide important habitat for wildlife, especially when landscaped with …

Introduction A major goal for conservation planning is the prioritized protection and
management of areas that harbor maximal biodiversity. However, such spatial prioritization …

Passive acoustic monitoring has developed rapidly as a tool for ecological assessments,
and the use of acoustic indices to assess biodiversity in urban forests promises to be a low …

Urban environments are vulnerable to the introduction of non-native species and sometimes
contribute to their invasion success. Knowing how urban landscape features affect the …

Anthropogenic landscape transformation has an important effect on vector-borne pathogen
transmission, especially under the perspective of an increase in their distribution and …

The intensification of urban and agricultural use in the landscape is the major driver of
biodiversity loss and the consequent decrease of ecosystem services provided by insects …