Beyond ecology: ecosystem restoration as a process for social-ecological transformation

AM Tedesco, S López-Cubillos, R Chazdon… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Ecosystem restoration conventionally focuses on ecological targets. However, while
ecological targets are crucial to mobilizing political, social, and financial capital, they do not …

[HTML][HTML] Defining greenspace: Multiple uses across multiple disciplines

L Taylor, DF Hochuli - Landscape and urban planning, 2017 - Elsevier
Greenspace research has been driven by an emerging interest in the impact that biodiversity
and ecosystem function has on life in urban areas. Studies from multiple disciplines across …

Biodiversity in the city: fundamental questions for understanding the ecology of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation

CA Lepczyk, MFJ Aronson, KL Evans, MA Goddard… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
As urban areas expand, understanding how ecological processes function in cities has
become increasingly important for conserving biodiversity. Urban green spaces are critical …

Biodiversity in cities needs space: a meta‐analysis of factors determining intra‐urban biodiversity variation

J Beninde, M Veith, A Hochkirch - Ecology letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding varying levels of biodiversity within cities is pivotal to protect it in the face of
global urbanisation. In the early stages of urban ecology studies on intra‐urban biodiversity …

Green roofs and green walls for biodiversity conservation: a contribution to urban connectivity?

F Mayrand, P Clergeau - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Green roofs and walls have recently emerged as conservation tools, and they offer
promising additional opportunities to enhance biodiversity in cities. However, their …

Diverse landscapes have a higher abundance and species richness of spring wild bees by providing complementary floral resources over bees' foraging periods

RE Mallinger, J Gibbs, C Gratton - Landscape ecology, 2016 - Springer
Context Anthropogenic landscape simplification and natural habitat loss can negatively
affect wild bees. Alternatively, anthropogenic land-use change may diversify landscapes …

Approaches to urban vegetation management and the impacts on urban bird and bat assemblages

CG Threlfall, NSG Williams, AK Hahs… - Landscape and Urban …, 2016 - Elsevier
To balance the needs of people and biodiversity in cities, local governments are
increasingly incorporating green spaces and urban greening initiatives into urban planning …

Sharing or sparing? How should we grow the world's cities?

BB Lin, RA Fuller - Journal of applied ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There has long been a debate amongst conservation biologists about how agricultural land
use should be distributed spatially. Advocates of land sparing argue that high‐intensity food …

Effects of habitat structure, human disturbance, and habitat connectivity on urban forest bird communities

W Kang, ES Minor, CR Park, D Lee - Urban ecosystems, 2015 - Springer
As urbanization accelerates, urban biodiversity conservation is becoming a great concern
for the maintenance of urban ecosystem functions. In particular, forest bird communities in …

Managing urban ecosystems for goods and services

KJ Gaston, ML Ávila‐Jiménez… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Concomitant with the rise in the proportion of the global human population that resides in
urban areas has been growth in awareness of the importance of the provision of ecosystem …