Browsing Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Urban ecology"
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Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools
(ESA, 2016)The majority of humanity now lives in cities or towns, with this proportion expected to continue increasing for the foreseeable future. As novel ecosystems, urban areas offer an ideal opportunity to examine multi-scalar ... -
Landscape history, time lags and drivers of change: urban natural grassland remnants in Potchefstroom, South Africa
(Springer, 2016)Context The history of the landscape directly affects biotic assemblages, resulting in time lags in species response to disturbances. In highly fragmented environments, this phenomenon often causes extinction debts. ... -
Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century
(Nature, 2019)We have entered the urban century and addressing a broad suite of sustainability challenges in urban areas is increasingly key for our chances to transform the entire planet towards sustainability. For example, cities are ... -
Sustainable urban landscapes: South African perspectives on transdisciplinary possibilities
(Elsevier, 2014)The development of sustainable urban landscapes challenges all stakeholders, including local governments as the major custodians thereof. The majority of urban ecological research done describes European and North American ... -
Urban ecology in Cape Town: South African comparisons and reflections
(Ecology & Society, 2012)Little urban ecological research has been done in South Africa. The papers in the Ecology and Society special feature Urban Ecological and Social-Ecological Research in the City of Cape Town make, therefore, an important ... -
Urbanization erodes ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and may cause microbial communities to converge
(Springer Nature, 2017)Urbanization alters the physicochemical environment, introduces non-native species and causes ecosystem characteristics to converge. It has been speculated that these alterations contribute to loss of regional and global ...