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Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation.
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Although conservation attitudes may be challenged by the novelty of some urban ecosystems, it is promising to consider their associated ecosystem services, social benefits, and possible contribution to biodiversity conservation.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 823 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban ecosystem & Conservation biology.read more
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Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere
TL;DR: A general causal theory is presented to explain why human societies gained the capacity to globally alter the patterns, processes, and dynamics of ecology and how these anthropogenic alterations unfold over time and space as societies themselves change over human generational time.
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Advances in restoration ecology: rising to the challenges of the coming decades
Michael P. Perring,Michael P. Perring,Rachel J. Standish,Rachel J. Standish,Jodi N. Price,Michael D. Craig,Michael D. Craig,Todd E. Erickson,Katinka X. Ruthrof,Andrew S. Whiteley,Leonie E. Valentine,Richard J. Hobbs +11 more
TL;DR: This review of conceptual developments in restoration ecology over the last 30 years is reviewed in the context of changing restoration goals which reflect increased societal awareness of the scale of environmental degradation and the recognition that inter-disciplinary approaches are needed to tackle environmental problems.
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Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems
Richard J. Hobbs,Eric Higgs,Carol M. Hall,Peter Bridgewater,F. Stuart Chapin,Erle C. Ellis,John J. Ewel,Lauren M. Hallett,James A. Harris,Kristen B Hulvey,Kristen B Hulvey,Stephen T. Jackson,Patricia L. Kennedy,Christoph Kueffer,Lori Lach,Trevor C. Lantz,Ariel E. Lugo,Joseph Mascaro,Stephen D. Murphy,Cara R. Nelson,Michael P. Perring,David M. Richardson,Timothy R. Seastedt,Rachel J. Standish,Brian M. Starzomski,Katherine N. Suding,Katherine N. Suding,Pedro M. Tognetti,Laith Yakob,Laurie Yung +29 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a landscape management framework that incorporates all systems, across the spectrum of degrees of alteration, provides a fuller set of options for how and when to intervene, uses limited resources more effectively, and increases the chances of achieving management goals.
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Biodiversity in the City: Fundamental Questions for Understanding the Ecology of Urban Green Spaces for Biodiversity Conservation
Christopher A. Lepczyk,Myla F. J. Aronson,Karl L. Evans,Mark A. Goddard,Susannah B. Lerman,J. Scott MacIvor +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the need for research to understand how green spaces size, connectedness, and type influence the community, population, and life-history dynamics of multiple taxa in cities.
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify emerging hypotheses on how urbanization drives eco-evolutionary dynamics and study how human-driven microevolutional changes interact with ecological processes and provide new insights for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function over the long term.
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Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
Nancy B. Grimm,Stanley H. Faeth,Nancy Golubiewski,Charles L. Redman,Jianguo Wu,Xuemei Bai,John M. Briggs +6 more
TL;DR: Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects of an increasingly urbanized world.
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The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective
Rachel Kaplan,Stephen Kaplan +1 more
TL;DR: A study of the natural environment, people, and the relationship between them is presented in this paper, where the authors offer a research-based analysis of the vital psychological role that nature plays.
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Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation
TL;DR: A review by Czech and colleagues (2000) finds that urbanization endangers more species and is more geographically ubiquitous in the mainland United States than any other human activity, emphasizing the uniquely far-reaching transformations that accompany urban sprawl as discussed by the authors.
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Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization
TL;DR: In this paper, a basic conservation challenge is that urban biota is often quite diverse and very abundant, and that, because so many urban species are immigrants adapting to city habitats, urbanites of all income levels become increasingly disconnected from local indigenous species and their natural ecosystems.
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The role of propagule pressure in explaining species invasions.
TL;DR: Propagule pressure is proposed as a key element to understanding why some introduced populations fail to establish whereas others succeed and how the study of propagule pressure can provide an opportunity to tie together disparate research agendas within invasion ecology.