Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material
demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and …

The patterns of biodiversity changes in cities are now fairly well established, although
diversity changes in temperate cities are much better studied than cities in other climate …

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Many studies have described the effects of urbanization on species richness. These studies
indicate that urbanization can increase or decrease species richness, depending on several …

We used photo-elicitation studies and a controlled perennial meadow creation experiment at
ten urban green-spaces in southern England (five experimental sites and five control sites) …

Around the world the development and growth of cities and towns are having a significant
impact on local and global biodiversity. There is growing interest in the adaptation of …

By transforming landscapes, human activity creates new types of habitats with altered
environmental characteristics that never existed before. As the process of habitat …

The global decline in biodiversity as a result of urbanization remains poorly understood.
Whereas habitat destruction accounts for losses at the species level, it may not explain …

Rapid urbanization has become an area of crucial concern in conservation owing to the
radical changes in habitat structure and loss of species engendered by urban and suburban …

Despite expanding urban areas and increased awareness of urbanization impacts on
wildlife, trends in urban wildlife studies have not been evaluated systematically. We …