Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

Climate change 2007: the physical science basis

2007 • 23,790 citations

Climate change 2007 : the physical science basis : contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

2007 • 17,577 citations

The Physical Science Basis : Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

2007 • 4,169 citations

Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation

2002 • 3,353 citations

Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization

2005 • 3,294 citations

Streams in the Urban Landscape

2001 • 2,523 citations

The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure

2005 • 2,504 citations

Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

2007 • 2,363 citations

Streams in the Urban Landscape

2008 • 2,249 citations

Impact of urbanization and land-use change on climate

2003 • 2,202 citations

Urban effects on native avifauna: a review

2004 • 1,564 citations

Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas

2001 • 1,499 citations

Human development report, 2006: beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis

2007 • 1,160 citations

From patterns to emerging processes in mechanistic urban ecology

2005 • 1,154 citations

Heavy metal contamination of urban soils and street dusts in Hong Kong

2001 • 1,037 citations

Integrated Approaches to Long-TermStudies of Urban Ecological Systems

2000 • 1,013 citations

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2002 • 877 citations

Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and Ecosystems for Human Welfare

2007 • 876 citations

Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity

2003 • 809 citations

Megacities and Atmospheric Pollution

2004 • 778 citations

SETTING EXPECTATIONS FOR THE ECOLOGICAL CONDITION OF STREAMS: THE CONCEPT OF REFERENCE CONDITION

2006 • 748 citations

The dark side of light at night: physiological, epidemiological, and ecological consequences

2007 • 739 citations

Quantifying Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Land-use Change in Four Cities of China with Time Series Landscape Metrics

2005 • 655 citations

A distinct urban biogeochemistry?

2006 • 641 citations

Avoiding Green Marketing Myopia: Ways to Improve Consumer Appeal for Environmentally Preferable Products

2006 • 619 citations

ECOLOGICAL MECHANISMS LINKING PROTECTED AREAS TO SURROUNDING LANDS

2007 • 604 citations

Biotic homogenization: a new research agenda for conservation biogeography

2006 • 536 citations

Spatial heterogeneity in urban ecosystems: reconceptualizing land cover and a framework for classification

2007 • 530 citations

Restoring streams in an urbanizing world

2007 • 498 citations

Biodiversity in urban habitat patches

2005 • 453 citations

Trophic Dynamics in Urban Communities

2005 • 449 citations

Urban ecosystems and the North American carbon cycle

2006 • 437 citations

Urbanization effects on tree growth in the vicinity of New York City

2003 • 430 citations

Human Impact on Ancient Environments. By Charles L. Redman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xiv + 239 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, references, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.95

2000 • 425 citations

Characterization of Households and its Implications for the Vegetation of Urban Ecosystems

2006 • 397 citations

Ground arthropod community structure in a heterogeneous urban environment

2001 • 387 citations

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth

2003 • 313 citations

Win-Win Ecology

2003 • 312 citations

Ecological consequences of rapid urban expansion: Shanghai, China

2006 • 312 citations

The Pigeon Paradox: Dependence of Global Conservation on Urban Nature

2006 • 295 citations

Multilevel Cycle of Anthropogenic Copper

2004 • 282 citations

Sustainability Indicators at the Firm Level

1998 • 279 citations

Escalating Trends in the Urban Metabolism of Hong Kong: 1971–1997

2001 • 229 citations

The environmental impact of suburbanization

2000 • 228 citations

The Ecological city: preserving and restoring urban biodiversity

1994 • 208 citations

Twenty-five years of sprawl in the Seattle region: growth management responses and implications for conservation

2004 • 206 citations

Island Biogeography for an Urbanizing World How Extinction and Colonization May Determine Biological Diversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes

2008 • 203 citations

URBANIZATION AND SPIDER DIVERSITY: INFLUENCES OF HUMAN MODIFICATION OF HABITAT STRUCTURE AND PRODUCTIVITY

2004 • 195 citations

Urbanization, sustainability and the utilization of energy and mineral resources in China

2005 • 192 citations

Island biogeography for an urbanizing world: how extinction and colonization may determine biological diversity in human-dominated landscapes

2005 • 192 citations

INCREASED SEDENTARINESS IN EUROPEAN BLACKBIRDS FOLLOWING URBANIZATION: A CONSEQUENCE OF LOCAL ADAPTATION?

2007 • 189 citations

Resource Consumption of New Urban Construction in China

2007 • 187 citations

The Urban Funnel Model and the Spatially Heterogeneous Ecological Footprint

2001 • 181 citations

Weekly cycles of air pollutants, precipitation and tropical cyclones in the coastal NW Atlantic region

1998 • 179 citations

N processing within geomorphic structures in urban streams

2005 • 178 citations

Living in the city: Resource availability, predation, and bird population dynamics in urban areas

2007 • 138 citations

Why ecology needs archaeologists and archaeology needs ecologists

2006 • 128 citations

Forest Remnants Along Urban-Rural Gradients: Examining Their Potential for Global Change Research

2005 • 128 citations

Predation on artificial bird nests along an urban gradient: predatory risk or relaxation in urban environments?

1999 • 124 citations

Biocomplexity in Coupled Natural–Human Systems: A Multidimensional Framework

2005 • 113 citations

Applied climatology: principles and practice

1998 • 112 citations

Urbanization alters the functional composition, but not taxonomic diversity, of the soil nematode community

2006 • 82 citations

The composition, trend and impact of urban solid waste in Beijing

2007 • 75 citations

Songbird Abundance And Parasitism Differ Between Urban And Rural Shrublands

2006 • 64 citations

Agrarian legacy in soil nutrient pools of urbanizing arid lands

2006 • 60 citations

Changes in Bird Abundance in Eastern North America: Urban Sprawl and Global Footprint?

2007 • 59 citations

Migration and environment in the context of globalization

2007 • 59 citations

HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN SCALING OF SOIL PROPERTIES ACROSS URBAN, AGRICULTURAL, AND DESERT ECOSYSTEMS

2008 • 52 citations

East west perspectives on 21st century urban development : sustainable eastern and western cities in the new millennium

1999 • 48 citations

Use of computer simulation for cycle length adjustment in sequencing batch reactor

2001 • 36 citations

Human Development Report 2006: Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis

2006 • 19 citations

Coal Tar‐Containing Asphalt Resource or Hazardous Waste?

2007 • 18 citations