1. Big data from tiny flies: patterns revealed from over 42,000 phorid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae) collected over one year in Los Angeles, California, USA

   • Brian V. Brown
   • Emily A. Hartop

   OriginalPaper Open access 01 December 2016 Pages: 521 - 534

   

2. Determining urban exploiter status of a termite using genetic analysis

   • Manping Zhang
   • Theodore A. Evans

   OriginalPaper 17 December 2016 Pages: 535 - 545

   

3. Habitat type, food resources, noise and light pollution explain the species composition, abundance and stability of a winter bird assemblage in an urban environment

   • Michał Ciach
   • Arkadiusz Fröhlich

   OriginalPaper Open access 21 November 2016 Pages: 547 - 559

   

4. Forest cover is important across multiple scales for bird communities in vacant lots

   • Christine C. Rega-Brodsky
   • Charles H. Nilon

   OriginalPaper 16 November 2016 Pages: 561 - 571

   

5. Urban land cover decreases the occurrence of a wetland endemic mammal and its associated vegetation

   • Chelsey R. Faller
   • Robert A. McCleery

   OriginalPaper 17 December 2016 Pages: 573 - 580

   

6. The spatial genetic structure of the yellow-necked mouse in an urban environment – a recent invader vs. a closely related permanent inhabitant

   • Tomasz Gortat
   • Robert Rutkowski
   • Michał Kozakiewicz

   OriginalPaper Open access 28 November 2016 Pages: 581 - 594

   

7. Contrasting effects of urban habitat complexity on metabolic functional diversity and composition of litter and soil bacterial communities

   • Alessandro Ossola
   • Cristina Aponte
   • Stephen J. Livesley

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2016 Pages: 595 - 607

   

8. Sociality enhances birds’ capacity to deal with anthropogenic ecosystems

   • Zina Skandrani
   • Dalila Bovet
   • Anne-Caroline Prévot

   OriginalPaper 22 November 2016 Pages: 609 - 615

   

9. A citizen science survey: perceptions and attitudes of urban residents towards vervet monkeys

   • Lindsay Patterson
   • Riddhika Kalle
   • Colleen Downs

   OriginalPaper 28 November 2016 Pages: 617 - 628

   

10. Trends in bird species richness, abundance and biomass along a tropical urbanization gradient

    • Dan Chamberlain
    • Micheal Kibuule
    • Derek Pomeroy

    OriginalPaper 28 November 2016 Pages: 629 - 638

    

11. Ecological lands for conservation of vascular plant diversity in the urban environment

    • Marcin K. Dyderski
    • Dorota Wrońska-Pilarek
    • Andrzej M. Jagodziński

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 December 2016 Pages: 639 - 650

    

12. Urban development in the southern Great Plains: effects of atmospheric NO_x on the long-lived post oak tree (Quercus stellata)

    • Michelle L Green
    • Kalee Foster
    • Laura Gough

    OriginalPaper 19 December 2016 Pages: 651 - 661

    

13. Photosynthetic CO₂ uptake and carbon sequestration potential of deciduous and evergreen tree species in an urban environment

    • L. F. Weissert
    • J. A. Salmond
    • L. Schwendenmann

    OriginalPaper 15 December 2016 Pages: 663 - 674

    

14. Urban sacred natural sites – a call for research

    • Wendy Jackson
    • Alison Ormsby

    OriginalPaper 05 December 2016 Pages: 675 - 681

15. Ecosystem services assessment of the urban forests of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    • Tekle Woldegerima
    • Kumelachew Yeshitela
    • Sarah Lindley

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2017 Pages: 683 - 699

    

16. Coupling ecosystem services supply and human ecological demand to identify landscape ecological security pattern: A case study in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, China

    • Liqing Zhang
    • Jian Peng
    • Jiansheng Wu

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2016 Pages: 701 - 714

    

17. Experts’ versus laypersons’ perception of urban cultural ecosystem services

    • Maraja Riechers
    • Eva Maria Noack
    • Teja Tscharntke

    OriginalPaper 22 November 2016 Pages: 715 - 727