Urban biodiversity
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As more people live in cities and urban areas expand, there has also been a growing interest in understanding and protecting the biodiversity within them. While often perceived as bare, homogenous concrete jungles, urban areas can hold surprisingly great numbers of species, often of conservation concern, and setting the scene for complex evolutionary and ecological dynamics. Urban biodiversity equally provides benefits for human well-being, in the form of improving environmental quality, natural hazard protection, better physical and mental health, appreciation of nature, etc.
This Collections invites submissions on the latest research focusing on urban biodiversity, including integrative and multidisciplinary studies.
Editors
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Mark C. Mainwaring
Montana University, USA
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Guobao Song
Dalian University of Technology, China
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Shuping Zhang
Shandong University, China
Mark C. Mainwaring is a Drollinger-Dial Post-Doctoral Fellow in Functional Ecology at Montana University in North America. His research examines how environmental conditions influence avian reproduction and life histories but pertinently, he examines how urbanisation influences birds by, for example, incorporating anthropogenic materials into their nests. Dr Mainwaring has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2013.
Guobao Song is a Researcher in School of Environmental Science and Technology at Dalian University of Technology. He conducted interdisciplinary studies in the dual contexts of climate change and urbanization, such as sustainable food and diet, environmental sustainability, and biodiversity. Dr Song has been an Editorial Board Member at Scientific Reports since 2021.
Shuping Zhang is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity at the School of Life Sciences of Shandong University, China. She specializes in biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and their synergies in different forest ecosystems and landscape contexts. Dr Zhang has been an Editorial Board Member at Scientific Reports since 2019.
