Mutualistic relationships versus hyper-efficiencies in the sustainable building and citySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 195-204 - 2013
Ebru Ozer
The quest for sustainability in the design and development of buildings and cities has expressed itself predominantly as a pursuit of ever-greater efficiency. Urban systems have been developed to achieve energy and resource savings in an attempt to eliminate their environmentally negative impacts. The end goal would seem to be to make buildings and cities virtually invisible within the context of ...... hiện toàn bộ
Suburban forest patches have high functional and phylogenetic diversity in bird communitiesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - Trang 1-10 - 2023
Gabriela Franzoi Dri, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Cristian de Sales Dambros
The fast conversion of natural habitats into cities is a worldwide environmental change, negatively affecting ecosystem processes and functioning. Understanding how changes in taxonomic richness and composition are associated with the reduction in functional traits and evolutionary history in different levels of urbanization is important to minimize the impacts of urban landscapes on ecological co...... hiện toàn bộ
Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction systemSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - Trang 1-15 - 2024
Corina Vissio, Eugenia M. Drewniak, Andrea A. Cocucci, Marcela Moré, Santiago Benitez-Vieyra, Adrián Giaquinta, Florencia Soteras
Night-flying pollinators, such as hawkmoths, are particularly vulnerable to the global spread of urban artificial lighting which is changing nighttime environments worldwide, impacting organisms and their interactions. Incident light quality can alter flower and leaf color perception by insects, depending on the emission spectra of light sources and the spectral sensitivity of insects. We asked, u...... hiện toàn bộ
Structural elements as barriers against wear in urban woodlandsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 45-56 - 1999
S. Lehvävirta
The effect of structural elements of woodlands (trees, rocks, topography, etc.) on the spatial distribution of wear was studied in 30 sites in the cities of Helsinki and Vantaa, Finland. Discriminant analysis showed that the size of the adjacent human population and structural elements within study sites were important in distinguishing sample plots with a lot of path area (≥6 m2/30 m2) from those...... hiện toàn bộ
Notes on the evolution and organization of the urban ecosystemSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 - Trang 291-298 - 2006
Krunica Hruska
The continual spread of human settlements over the world’s surface has transformed the natural environment on a global scale. Human’s intervention has changed primary ecosystems (protoecosystems or euecosystems) into anthropoecosystems. The spread of urban ecosystems, cultivated surfaces (agroecosystems), and various areas differentiated by their level of anthropization has facilitated the progres...... hiện toàn bộ
Predicting burrowing owl flight trajectories in urban environmentsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 25 - Trang 499-509 - 2021
Eduardo Guimarães Santos, Helga Correa Wiederhecker, Ricardo Bomfim Machado
It is important to understand how animals respond to changes in landscape structure, especially when considering habitat alteration and urbanization. Using the burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) as an ecological model we tested two hypotheses: (1) the landscape of urban areas influences trajectories of the burrowing owl, which responds changing its displacement patterns, and (2) models incorporati...... hiện toàn bộ
Conservation of skinks in New Zealand citiesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2023
Christopher Woolley, Stephen Hartley, John Innes, Danielle F. Shanahan, Yolanda van Heezik, Deborah Wilson, Nicola J. Nelson
AbstractUrbanisation dramatically alters ecosystems, disrupting key processes and threatening species persistence. Despite growing knowledge of the impacts of cities on wildlife, particularly for birds and mammals, there remains a paucity of research on how urbanisation impacts other taxa, including reptiles. We examined how urbanisation affects skink communities a...... hiện toàn bộ