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Acknowledgements

I thank Theodore Evans and Joanna Coleman for giving me the opportunity to take their urban ecology course, which provided the inspiration for this paper. I am grateful to an anonymous reviewer for encouraging me to extend my theoretical boundaries. I also thank Lin Shuyan and Shirlena Huang for productive comments that helped enhanced the clarity of the paper. That said, I take responsibility for, what hopefully is, an improved version of the original submission.

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Ho, E. What is an everyday urban ecology?. J Environ Stud Sci 5, 745–749 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-015-0269-1

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