Pinho_et_al_2021

Pinho P, Casanelles-Abella J, Luz AC, et al (2021) Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities. Basic and Applied Ecology S1439179121000402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.02.014

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Keywords: community science, habitat mapping, urban

Citizen scientists can help fill gaps in species distributions and relationships to ES in cities. Research directions for urban habitat mapping include creating ecologically meaningful maps of cities including all land uses, land cover, and habitat sizes and using remote sensing to create spatially complete and temporally replicated sampling design. Research directions for multiple environmental gradients include quantifying multiple environmental drivers of biodiversity considering multiple dimensions and assessing new species assemblages resulting from changing conditions. Emphasized the importance of functional diversity based research.