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Data from: Effects of fragmentation on plant adaptation to urban environments
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Data from: Estimating feral cat densities using distance sampling in an urban environment
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Data from: Predation risk shaped by habitat and landscape complexity in urban environments
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Spatiotemporal interactions of a novel mesocarnivore community in an urban environment before and during SARS‐CoV‐2 lockdown
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Camera-traps and the city: spatiotemporal adaptations of wildlife to urban environments
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Analysis of rooftop surface temperatures in an urban residential environment
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is an important worldwide problem caused by rapid urbanization. The mitigation efforts include using high albedo rooftops, green rooftops, and planting vegetation around the buildings. Rooftop properties such as albedo, color, material, slope, area, aspect, and height are factors that potentially contribute. Nearby landscaping is also important factors to be considered. To analyze rooftop parameters and outdoor landscaping, high spatial resolution satellite imagery, LIDAR (light detection and ranging) data and high resolution thermal imagery are necessary. Using data from the City of Tempe AZ, we digitized residential rooftop footprints and derived rooftop configuration parameters from airborne LIDAR data and QuickBird imagery (2.4 m resolution imagery). High resolution daytime and nighttime surface temperature data (7m) were derived from the MODIS/ASTER airborne simulator (MASTER). Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression was utilized to explore the relationships between residential building rooftops and rooftop surface temperature in Tempe. The results showed that daytime rooftop surface temperature was related to rooftop spectral attributes, slope, aspect, and surrounding trees. Night time temperature was only affected by rooftop spectral attributes and slope.
Evaluating water and energy fluxes across three distinct land cover types in a desert urban environment
Urbanization impacts surface energy and water balances across multiple spatial and temporal scales, which can be particularly important in desert cities where resources are limited. Urban climate observations are limited, especially over a variety of locations that represent urban land cover. To help address the lack of observations over different urban land cover types, a mobile eddy covariance tower (ECT) was deployed at three different locations in the Phoenix metropolitan area, representing a xeric landscape (drip irrigated palo verde trees with gravel), a parking lot, and a mesic landscape (sprinkler irrigated turf grass). In this project, data obtained from the mobile ECT deployments will be coupled with data from an eddy covariance tower managed by CAP LTER in the Maryvale suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. Data is processed to obtain energy and water fluxes, which are controlled by land surface characteristics, over the four distinct land cover types.
Data from: Lower bumblebee colony reproductive success in agricultural compared to urban environments
Urbanisation represents a rapidly growing driver of land-use change. While it is clear that urbanisation impacts species abundance and diversity, direct effects of urban land-use on animal reproductive success are rarely documented. Here we show that urban land-use is linked to long-term colony reproductive output in a key pollinator. We reared colonies from wild-caught bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queens, placed them at sites characterised by varying degrees of urbanisation from inner city to rural farmland, and monitored the production of sexual offspring across the entire colony cycle. Our land-use cluster analysis identified three site categories, and this categorization was a strong predictor of colony performance. Crucially, colonies in the two clusters characterized by urban development produced more sexual offspring than those in the cluster dominated by agricultural land. These colonies also reached higher peak size, had more food stores, encountered fewer parasite invasions and survived for longer. Our results show a link between urbanisation and bumblebee colony reproductive success, supporting the theory that urban areas provide a refuge for pollinator populations in an otherwise barren agricultural landscape.
Data from: Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments
Evidence is growing that human modification of landscapes has dramatically altered evolutionary processes. In urban population genetic studies, urbanization is typically predicted to act as a barrier that isolates populations of species, leading to increased genetic drift within populations and reduced gene flow between populations. However, urbanization may also facilitate dispersal among populations, leading to higher genetic diversity within and lower differentiation between urban populations. We reviewed the literature on non-adaptive urban evolution to evaluate the support for each of these urbanse urban fragmentation and facilitation models. In a review of the literature with supporting quantitative analyses of 167 published urban population genetics studies, we found a weak signature of reduced within-population genetic diversity, and no evidence of consistently increased between-population genetic differentiation associated with urbanization. In addition, we found that urban landscape features act as barriers or conduits to gene flow, depending on the species and city in question. Thus, we speculate that dispersal ability of species and environmental heterogeneity between cities contribute to the variation exhibited in our results. However, greater than 90% of published studies reviewed here showed an association of urbanization with genetic drift or gene flow, highlighting the strong impact of urbanization on non-adaptive evolution. It is clear that organism biology and city heterogeneity obscure patterns of genetic drift and gene flow in a quantitative analysis. Thus, we suggest that future research makes comparisons of multiple cities and nonurban habitats, and takes into consideration species' natural history, environmental variation, spatial modelling, and marker selection.
Supplementary material 1 from: Balzan MV, Debono I (2018) Assessing urban recreation ecosystem services through the use of geocache visitation and preference data: a case-study from an urbanised island environment. One Ecosystem 3: e24490. https://doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.3.e24490
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Dataset for AR article: New particle formation dynamics in the central Andes: contrasting urban and mountaintop environments
<p>Dataset for Article New particle formation dynamics in the central Andes:<br>contrasting urban and mountaintop environments (Aliaga et al. 2024; Aerosol research)</p> <p>It contains four key data files with clustered model output and measurement data from FLEXPART simulations and in situ observations. Details on each file are provided below:</p> <p>1. flx_clust20_alto.nc</p> <p> - Description: Contains clustered output from FLEXPART simulations at EAC site .</p> <p><br>2. flx_clust20_chc.nc</p> <p> - Description: Stores the clustered output from FLEXPART simulations at the CHC site.</p> <p><br>3. particle_number_size_dist.nc</p> <p> - Description: Provides particle number concentrations measured at CHC and EAC sites, utilizing instruments NAIS and DMPS.</p> <p><br>4. hourly_data.nc</p> <p> - Description: dataset with all relevant parameters, including meteorological variables, cloud fraction, chemical composition, and particle concentration across various sizes.</p> <p> </p>
Figure 3 from: Szlavecz K, Vilisics F, Tóth Z, Hornung E (2018) Terrestrial isopods in urban environments: an overview. In: Hornung E, Taiti S, Szlavecz K (Eds) Isopods in a Changing World. ZooKeys 801: 97-126. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.801.29580
Figure 3 Responses of three synanthropic isopod species to urbanization gradient. Each data point is percentage of total number of individuals (N) of a given species caught in pitfall traps. Philosciamuscorum: N = 7473, Porcellioscaber: N = 12314, Armadillidiumvulgare: N = 816. The study was carried out in urban, suburban, and rural forest patches and parks in Sorø, Denmark. Data from Vilisics et al. (2007); original figure.
Figure 1 from: Szlavecz K, Vilisics F, Tóth Z, Hornung E (2018) Terrestrial isopods in urban environments: an overview. In: Hornung E, Taiti S, Szlavecz K (Eds) Isopods in a Changing World. ZooKeys 801: 97-126. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.801.29580
Figure 1 Publications on urban isopods in the past three decades. Source: Web of Science using the following keywords: terrestrial isopods, woodlice, oniscid, urban, anthropogenic A Number of publications per year B Frequency of publications by subdisciplines.
Figure 2 from: Szlavecz K, Vilisics F, Tóth Z, Hornung E (2018) Terrestrial isopods in urban environments: an overview. In: Hornung E, Taiti S, Szlavecz K (Eds) Isopods in a Changing World. ZooKeys 801: 97-126. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.801.29580
Figure 2 Cities with records on urban isopod diversity. Names of cities with references are listed in Suppl. material 1: Table S1. Publications with isopod abundance but without species composition are not included in the map, but referenced elsewhere in the text.
Fig. 4 in Larval Development And Habitat Usage Of Stream-Breeding Fire Salamanders In An Urban Environment
Fig. 4. Principal components analysis of stream substrate composition at 16 stream segments, "Hűvös-ér" stream. PC1 described a gradient from stream segments with a high % cover of fine gravel to segments with a high % cover of concrete. PC2 described a gradient from segments with a high % cover of sand to segments with a high cover of stones
Urban environments provide new perspectives for forecasting vegetation phenology responses under climate warming
<p>The temperature sensitivity of 343 cities in China</p>
Data from: Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments
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Data from: Lower bumblebee colony reproductive success in agricultural compared to urban environments
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Database used in the article: The consumption of alcohol by adolescent schoolchildren: Differences in the triadic relationship pattern between rural and urban environments.
<p>Database used in the study: The consumption of alcohol by adolescent schoolchildren: Differences in the triadic relationship pattern between rural and urban environments.</p>
Questionnares used in the article: The consumption of alcohol by adolescent schoolchildren: Differences in the triadic relationship pattern between rural and urban environments.
<p>Questionnaires used in the study: The consumption of alcohol by adolescent schoolchildren: Differences in the triadic relationship pattern between rural and urban environments.</p>
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