Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature

2025/03/25 by Ingo Kowarik, Leonie K. Fischer, Dagmar Haase +6 · 4 voices · 6 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Urban Green Space and Health #Urban Agriculture and Sustainability #Land Use and Ecosystem Services

paper · doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00035-y

Citations

• Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands
• A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers
• Biodiversity and the Feel-Good Factor: Understanding Associations between Self-Reported Human Well-being and Species Richness
• Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities
• Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools
• The Biological Deserts Fallacy: Cities in Their Landscapes Contribute More than We Think to Regional Biodiversity

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• Management matters: homogenized plant–soil linkages constrain carbon cycling in urban green spaces
• Airborne assessment uncovers socioeconomic stratification of urban nature in England

Discussions

• Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature Kowarik+ doi.org/10.1038/s443... "urban biodiversity is people’s primary contact with nature" "Biodiversity-sensitive and socially i [bsky, 39 points, 1 comments]
• Promote urban biodiversity to benefit people & nature! 🌍😀🐛 @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s443... [bsky, 35 points, 1 comments]
• Urban biodiversity is challenged by competition for space, human pressures and the declining engagement of urban residents with nature. Developing cities as shared environments for humans and nature c [bsky, 24 points, 0 comments]
• By 2050, 68% of the global population will live in urban areas. How can we best apply biodiversity-sensitive design & management to develop cities as a shared space for humans and nature? Ingo Kowarik [bsky, 12 points, 1 comments]