This chapter is aimed at analyzing a review of the empirical literature on some important
features of urban green spaces such as the components, functions, services, community …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

We assessed the impact of domestic cats on population persistence of native and exotic
urban bird populations using a model adjusted for habitat-specific catch rates, cat ownership …

Urban green areas improve the standard of living in cities and affect people's attitude to
nature and conservation. Zoological knowledge may provide data that will help designers to …

Researchers, advocates and policymakers have proposed urban conservation as an
emerging, integrative discipline that can contribute to sustainable cities by delivering co …

Urban areas contain high densities of non‐native species, which in the UK include the
domestic cat F elis catus (L innaeus 1758) and the grey squirrel S ciurus carolinensis (G …

Soil is the vital foundation of terrestrial ecosystems storing water, nutrients, and almost three-
quarters of the organic carbon stocks of the Earth's biomes. Soil organic carbon (SOC) …

Aim To compare macroecological patterns between bird communities of E uropean cities
and regional species assemblages in the surrounding landscape, and to reveal …

Landscape restoration through revegetation is being increasingly used in the conservation
management of degraded landscapes. To effectively plan restoration programs information …

" In an era of global climate change and rapid urbanization, innovations on governance of
urban systems are critically required as 50% people are now living in less than 3% of the …