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1 gru 2023 · Today, urban ecology not only attempts to uncover ecological patterns and associated functions and mechanisms in cities, it also supports urban ecosystem services, nature-based solutions and a biodiversity-friendly urban development to benefit urban people (Elmqvist et al., 2013, McPhearson et al., 2016, Pauleit et al., 2019, Dushkova and Haase ...
15 sie 2018 · This special feature highlights the power of urban evolutionary biology as a globally replicated experiment that provides an unparalleled opportunity to understand how human altered environments affect evolutionary processes and patterns.
2 sie 2018 · Urban ecosystems are expanding around the world as people migrate to cities and the human population continues to grow. What happens to other species as these urban ecosystems expand, and how species live and interact in established urban ecosystems, is the central focus of urban ecology.
21 cze 2024 · Urbanization, the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities. Whatever the numerical definition of an ‘urban place,’ it is clear that the course of human history has been marked by a process of accelerated urbanization.
3 lis 2017 · The study of urban evolution has rapidly become an important frontier in biology, with implications for healthy and sustainable human populations in urban ecosystems. A gradient in urbanization showing the skyline of Canada’s sixth largest city (Mississauga, Canada) on the horizon, and the Credit Valley and the University of Toronto ...
25 mar 2022 · All are examples of urban evolution: genetic changes that may help living things adapt to life in big city environments. “A city changes an environment dramatically. It creates a completely...
urban ecosystem, any ecological system located within a city or other densely settled area or, in a broader sense, the greater ecological system that makes up an entire metropolitan area.
