Motivations for Conserving Urban Biodiversity

By Donald C. Dearborn, Salit Kark. Conservation Biology, 2010

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology

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Enhancing urban biodiversity and its influence on city-dwellers: An experiment (2014, background): “Together, these results show that the relationship between biodiversity and city-dwellers is not as straightforward as commonly argued (Dearborn and Kark, 2010), unveiling a people– biodiversity paradox (Fuller and Irvine, 2010).”
Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower‐visiting insects (2014, background): “With the wildlife value of the countryside reducing, the value of urban areas is increasingly being recognized (Frankie & Ehler 1978; Cane 2005; Dearborn & Kark 2010; Sanderson & Huron 2011).”
Informal urban green space: A trilingual systematic review of its role for biodiversity and trends in the literature (2015, positive): “…could be related to ongoing global urbanization, the rise of urban ecology (Douglas and Goode, 2011), as well as increasing recognition of the interconnections between biodiversity and the well-being of urban residents (Dallimer et al., 2012a; Dearborn and Kark, 2010; Keniger et al., 2013).”
Non-native species in urban environments: patterns, processes, impacts and challenges (2017, background): “Motivations for conserving urban biodiversity are changing rapidly (Dearborn and Kark 2009), as are considerations regarding the management of urban ecosystems as part of overall regional and national strategies for biodiversity and sustainable development (Savard et al.”
A comparison of 3 types of green roof as habitats for arthropods (2013, background): “…presence of biodiversity and the services it provides could contribute to the basic human needs, such as health or wellbeing (Costanza et al., 1998; Dearborn and Kark, 2010; Bai et al., 2012), and greening cities and especially of buildings could help accomplish biodiversity (Jim, 2004;…”
Building height matters: nesting activity of bees and wasps on vegetated roofs (2016, background): “Studying how taxa interact with this complex environment may provide new insight into their ecology and conservation (Dearborn & Kark 2010).”
Mitigating and adapting to climate change: multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure. (2014, background): “…focusing on factual knowledge, more practically-oriented and hands-on learning curricula enable people to better understand the depth and delicate balance of cause and effect relationships between their own actions and the urban ecosystem (Dearborn and Kark, 2010; Hashimoto-Martell et al., 2012).”