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Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress
Steward T. A. Pickett,Mary L. Cadenasso,J. M. Grove,Christopher G. Boone,Peter M. Groffman,Elena G. Irwin,Sujay S. Kaushal,Victoria J. Marshall,Brian McGrath,Charles H. Nilon,Richard V. Pouyat,Katalin Szlavecz,Austin Troy,Paige S. Warren +13 more
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The state factor approach is used to highlight the role of important aspects of climate, substrate, organisms, relief, and time in differentiating urban from non-urban areas, and for determining heterogeneity within spatially extensive metropolitan areas.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2011-03-01. It has received 903 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban density & Human ecosystem.read more
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A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers
Myla F. J. Aronson,Frank A. La Sorte,Charles H. Nilon,Madhusudan Katti,Mark A. Goddard,Christopher A. Lepczyk,Paige S. Warren,Nicholas S.G. Williams,Sarel S. Cilliers,Bruce D. Clarkson,Cynnamon Dobbs,Rebecca W. Dolan,Marcus Hedblom,Stefan Klotz,Jip Louwe Kooijmans,Ingolf Kühn,Ian MacGregor-Fors,Mark J. McDonnell,Ulla Mörtberg,Petr Pyšek,Petr Pyšek,Petr Pyšek,Stefan J. Siebert,Jessica Sushinsky,Peter Werner,Marten Winter +25 more
TL;DR: It is found that the majority of urban bird and plant species are native in the world's cities, with the most common being Columba livia and Poa annua and few plants and birds are cosmopolitan.
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Urban ecology and sustainability: The state-of-the-science and future directions
Jianguo Wu,Jianguo Wu +1 more
TL;DR: The most salient thrust of current research activities in the field of urban ecology is the emerging urban sustainability paradigm which focuses on urban ecosystem services and their relations to human well-being.
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From Multifunctionality to Multiple Ecosystem Services? A Conceptual Framework for Multifunctionality in Green Infrastructure Planning for Urban Areas
Rieke Hansen,Stephan Pauleit +1 more
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for the assessment of multifunctionality from a social–ecological perspective is proposed that can inform the design of planning processes and support stronger exchange between GI and ES research.
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Urbanization and Disease Emergence: Dynamics at the Wildlife–Livestock–Human Interface
TL;DR: It is argued that these interfaces represent a critical point for cross-species transmission and emergence of pathogens into new host populations, and thus understanding their form and function is necessary to identify suitable interventions to mitigate the risk of disease emergence.
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The urban watershed continuum: evolving spatial and temporal dimensions
Sujay S. Kaushal,Kenneth T. Belt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an urban watershed continuum framework recognizes a continuum of engineered and natural hydrologic flowpaths that expands hydrologics networks in ways that are seldom considered. And the authors propose testable hypotheses of how transport/transformation of materials and energy vary along a continuous flowpath in space and time.
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