Aronson_et_al_2017

Aronson MF, Lepczyk CA, Evans KL, et al (2017) Biodiversity in the city: key challenges for urban green space management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15:189–196. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.l480

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1480

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Keywords: biodiversity, urban green space, management, wicked problems

Common management practices threaten urban biodiversity, need to balance human needs, cities can be critical for native biodiversity conservation (usually through green spaces), management at different scales affects UGS capacity for biodiversity and provision of ES, four main challenges: public/private land managed individually, UGS management driven by socioeconomic factors, many management techniques are barriers to biodiversity conservation, UGS support novel plant and animal communities