Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

CC Rega-Brodsky, MFJ Aronson, MR Piana… - Urban …, 2022 - Springer
Since the 1990s, recognition of urban biodiversity research has increased steadily.
Knowledge of how ecological communities respond to urban pressures can assist in …

The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi‐trophic: a meta‐analysis

A Filazzola, C Brown, MA Dettlaff, A Batbaatar… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic disturbance has generated a significant loss of biodiversity worldwide and
grazing by domestic herbivores is a contributing disturbance. Although the effects of grazing …

The contribution of constructed green infrastructure to urban biodiversity: A synthesis and meta‐analysis

A Filazzola, N Shrestha… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of buildings and other infrastructure in cities is viewed as a threat to local
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning because natural habitat is replaced. However, there …

Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

L Heidrich, S Bae, S Levick, S Seibold… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis predicts that biodiversity increases with increasing
habitat heterogeneity due to greater niche dimensionality. However, recent studies have …

Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research

F Polazzo, SK Roth, M Hermann… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater ecosystems are strongly influenced by weather extremes such as heatwaves
(HWs), which are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude in the future. In addition …

Trait-based assessments of climate-change impacts on interacting species

M Schleuning, EL Neuschulz, J Albrecht… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Plant–animal interactions are fundamentally important in ecosystems, but have often been
ignored by studies of climate-change impacts on biodiversity. Here, we present a trait-based …

A research agenda for urban biodiversity in the global extinction crisis

S Knapp, MFJ Aronson, E Carpenter… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rapid urbanization and the global loss of biodiversity necessitate the development of a
research agenda that addresses knowledge gaps in urban ecology that will inform policy …

A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

N Eisenhauer, H Schielzeth, AD Barnes… - Advances in ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has
prompted biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most …

Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems

M Schleuning, D García, JA Tobias - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits and associated trait‐based concepts have driven rapid innovation in
ecology over recent years, with most progress based on insights from plants. However …

Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda

L Fahrig, JI Watling, CA Arnillas… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The legacy of the 'SL> SS principle', that a single or a few large habitat patches (SL)
conserve more species than several small patches (SS), is evident in decisions to protect …