The accelerated rate of urban growth has become of major environmental concern,
especially in less developed countries where urban development is expected to rise …

South America sustains an important part of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and its
population is highly urbanized. Global syntheses have revealed a paucity of urban …

Several studies around the world have shown that species richness and proportion of
migrant species in bird communities increase toward the poles as a result of increased …

Wooded streets diminish the negative consequences of urban growth on biodiversity.
However, bird use of wooded streets has been little studied, in most cases analyzing bird …

Biodiversity mapping in urban areas is imperative for their conservation. Remote sensors
produce environmental information, such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index …

The urbanization process leads to changes in bird communities' taxonomic and functional
compositions. Highly urbanized areas generally exhibit a reduced number of bird species …

Metacommunities are the set of local communities that are linked by the dispersion of
potentially interacting species. The study of metacommunities is important to elucidate the …

Background Urbanisation is a dominant geographical trend and an important component of
global change, with unprecedented implications for socio-economic, cultural and …

We here provide a general overview of the study of bird abundance, demography, and
populations in urban environments with special attention on those from Latin America. We …

Urbanization transforms the landscape and generates loss of pristine habitats. We
investigated the urbanization effect on bird communities in a growing South American city …