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2002 • 3,353 citations

Two decades of urban climate research: a review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island

2003 • 3,086 citations

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2001 • 1,582 citations

Land Use and Avian Species Diversity Along an Urban Gradient

1996 • 1,406 citations

Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems

2003 • 1,000 citations

Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World

2001 • 910 citations

Conservation Where People Live and Work

2002 • 834 citations

Worldwide urbanization and its effects on birds

2001 • 772 citations

Behavioural flexibility and invasion success in birds

2002 • 643 citations

Ecology of Urban Arthropods: A Review and a Call to Action

2000 • 570 citations

Urban Bird Diversity and Landscape Complexity: Species-environment Associations Along a Multiscale Habitat Gradient

2003 • 494 citations

Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity and the Successful Colonization of a Novel Environment

2004 • 475 citations

Trophic Dynamics in Urban Communities

2005 • 449 citations

BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES ALONG AN URBAN GRADIENT: SURROGATE TAXA FOR ASSESSING BIODIVERSITY?

1999 • 422 citations

Carbon fluxes, nitrogen cycling, and soil microbial communities in adjacent urban, native and agricultural ecosystems

2005 • 373 citations

An Experimental Demonstration of Exploitation Competition in an Ongoing Invasion

1996 • 347 citations

Assessing the impact of urban land development on net primary productivity in the southeastern United States

2003 • 325 citations

The tale of two climates-Baltimore and Phoenix urban LTER sites

2000 • 317 citations

Credit or debit? Resource input changes population dynamics of city‐slicker birds

2004 • 285 citations

Influence of a large urban park on temperature and convective precipitation in a tropical city

1990 • 275 citations

Lizard species distributions and habitat occupation along an urban gradient in Tucson, Arizona, USA

2001 • 213 citations

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2002 • 206 citations

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

2004 • 195 citations

The city‐fox phenomenon: genetic consequences of a recent colonization of urban habitat

2003 • 192 citations

Vegetation as an urban climate control in the subtropical city of Gaborone, Botswana

2004 • 185 citations

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

1999 • 183 citations

Linking Optimal Foraging Behavior to Bird Community Structure in an Urban‐Desert Landscape: Field Experiments with Artificial Food Patches

2004 • 179 citations

Genetic analysis of spatial foraging patterns and resource sharing in bumble bee pollinators

2003 • 175 citations

RAPID EVOLUTION OF A SEXUALLY SELECTED TRAIT FOLLOWING POPULATION ESTABLISHMENT IN A NOVEL HABITAT

2004 • 171 citations

Comparative Breeding Ecology of Cooper's Hawks in Urban and Exurban Areas of Southeastern Arizona

1999 • 167 citations

Foraging of Gray Squirrels on an Urban‐Rural Gradient: Use of the Gud to Assess Anthropogenic Impact

1996 • 143 citations

The use of multisource satellite and geospatial data to study the effect of urbanization on primary productivity in the United States

2000 • 138 citations

Breeding bird species richness in Taiwan: distribution on gradients of elevation, primary productivity and urbanization

2004 • 137 citations

Molecular and ecological evidence for small‐scale isolation by distance in an endangered damselfly,Coenagrion mercuriale

2004 • 121 citations

Predation rate on artificial nests increases with human housing density in suburban habitats

2003 • 112 citations

Biotic effects of climate change in urban environments: The case of the grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in Melbourne, Australia

2005 • 104 citations

Synurbanization of the magpie in the Palearctic

2001 • 80 citations

Winter bird communities in urban habitats: a comparative study between central and northern Europe

2002 • 70 citations

Nest success and the timing of nest failure of Florida Scrub-Jays in suburban and wildland habitats

2001 • 64 citations

The ecology of Western Gulls in habitats varying in degree of urban influence

2001 • 59 citations

Changes in breeding bird richness and abundance in Montreal parks over a period of 15 years

1999 • 56 citations

Metal and metalloid concentrations in the eggs of threatened Florida scrub-jays in suburban habitat from south-central Florida

2004 • 46 citations

Variation in the timing of breeding between suburban and wildland Florida Scrub-Jays: Do physiologic measures reflect different environments?

2001 • 40 citations

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2002 • 26 citations

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1998 • 23 citations