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The urban heat island accelerates litter decomposition through microclimatic warming in temperate urban forests
Forests worldwide are experiencing fragmentation, with especially important consequences for ecosystems bordering urbanized areas. Urban forests are...
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Urban forests of Moscow: typological diversity, succession status, and fragmentation assessment
ContextUrban forests provide ecosystem services such as temperature regulation, air purification, carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation....
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Carabid specialists respond differently to nonnative plant invasion in urban forests
Forests within urban areas are important for the survival of some native plant and animal communities. Urban forests are negatively affected by...
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Assessing the state of urban forests in Dédougou, a Sahel city in Burkina Faso
The composition and diversity of urban forests are gaining attention in scholarly research, urban development, and sustainability efforts. Despite...
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Designing “Tiny Forests” as a lesson for transdisciplinary urban ecology learning
The sustainability and livability of urban areas call for the next generation of scientists, practitioners and policy makers to understand the...
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Can urban forests provide acoustic refuges for birds? Investigating the influence of vegetation structure and anthropogenic noise on bird sound diversity
As a crucial component of terrestrial ecosystems, urban forests play a pivotal role in protecting urban biodiversity by providing suitable habitats...
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Are southern temperate urban natural forests a suitable habitat for beetle diversity? A case study in Chile
Urban expansion is an important cause of biodiversity loss due to habitat destruction involving the replacement of the natural environment with...
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Living in urban forests strengthens radical scavenging activity to delay aging: a pilot animal study
The aging process is influenced by the accumulation of both beneficial and harmful factors in the external environment. While extensive literature...
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Woody Plant–Soil Relationships in Interstitial Spaces Have Implications for Future Forests Within and Beyond Urban Areas
Relatively unmanaged interstitial areas at the residential–wildland interface can support the development of novel woody plant communities. Community...
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Light availability and anthropogenic stress shape plant understory invasions in understory of urban forests: A case study in Shanghai
Understory vegetation is a vital part of urban forests and provides a habitat for the sustainability of plant and animal biodiversity. Understory...
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Experiencing urban forests for mitigation of negative emotions of people exposed to seasonal PM2.5 in Northeast China
Experiencing urban green and blue spaces (GBSs) can be a nature-based solution to improve mental well-being and cope with negative moods for people...
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Estimating carbon storage in urban forests of New York City
Forests play an important role in mitigating many of the negative effects of climate change. One of the ways trees mitigate impacts of climate change...
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Land use changes and bird diversity in subtropical forests: urban development as the underlying factor
The Serrano Chaco forest is the least extended Gran Chaco forest type with a long history of human disturbances, such as ranching, urbanization,...
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Green Infrastructure and Urban Forests for BioCities: Strategic and Adaptive Management
Urban nature has played an important role in cities around the world since industrialisation in the 18th century. The responsibility for urban nature...
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Multiple facets of avian diversity in pine forests along an urban-agricultural gradient
Increasing land conversion of agriculture and forest by urban growth in the southern United States has altered the landscape matrix surrounding pine...
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Forests
In Central Europe, the focus of forest restoration is less on increasing the forest area than on increasing or improving the multifunctionality and...
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Comparison of avian diversity, breeding communities, and nesting habitats between urban and peri-urban ecosystems of Fez (Central Morocco)
Avian diversity is very poor in urban zones due to the loss of natural ecosystems, breeding sites, nesting substrates, and foraging resources....
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Accuracy differences in aboveground woody biomass estimation with terrestrial laser scanning for trees in urban and rural forests and different leaf conditions
Key MessageTerrestrial laser scanning data can be converted to reliable woody aboveground biomass estimates, but estimation quality is influenced by...
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Neoscytalidium novaehollandiae as a Causative Agent of Tree Decline in Urban Forests and Its Potential for Transmission by Reservoirs
Populations of urban forest trees have declined in recent decades owing to various threats. The present study focused on the role of biotic agents,...
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Forest structure and anthropogenic disturbances regulate plant invasion in urban forests
Urban forest ecosystems, the structure, and functions therein are subjected to anthropogenic disturbances. Native and sensitive species from those...
