Urbanization effects on biodiversity conservation

The main topics focused on by the CEC team are related to:

• Effects of land use, vegetation structure and urban greenery on species distribution
• Impacts of urbanization on ecology and behaviour of wild organisms
• Evolutionary and biotic and homogenization of bird communities from anthropized landscapes
• Road ecology: Human related structures effects on wildlife distribution
• Invasive species and human related structures
• Nature-based solutions in urban ecosystems
• Urbanization and aquatic ecosystems
• Effectiveness of protected areas network preventing the biodiversity loss

Some outputs of our recent researches:

https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2049

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.02.006

https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14093