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

By N. McIntyre. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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An Exploratory Study of Domestic Violence: Perpetrators’ Reports of Violence Against Animals (2018, neutral): “Arthropods perform myriad ecosystem functions, from decomposition and soil aeration to pollination and seed dispersal, that are essential in the provisioning of regulatory, supportive, and cultural ecosystem services worth billions of dollars (Cardoso, Erwin, Borges, & New, 2011; Losey & Vaughan, 20”
Global Urbanization and the Separation of Humans from Nature (2004, background): “June 2004 / Vol. 54 No. 6 • BioScience 585 Urbanization is thought to depress biodiversity formany taxa (Kowarik 1995, McIntyre 2000, Marzluff 2001).”
Urbanization Shapes the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Arthropod Herbivore Interactions (2019, background): “On average, native species experience reduced abundance and extirpation in urban areas (McIntyre, 2000; Faeth et al., 2005, 2011; Sadler et al., 2006; Sánchez-Bayo and Wyckhuys, 2019).”
Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals (2008, background): “This trend of increasing proportion of nonnative species toward the urban core is also found in birds (Marzluff 2001), mammals (Mackin-Rogalska et al. 1988), and insects (McIntyre 2000).”
Changes in home range sizes and population densities of carnivore species along the natural to urban habitat gradient (2014, background): “Definitions of selected habitats in the ecological literature about carnivores vary significantly, reflecting national and cultural differences in perceiving each category (McIntyre 2000).”
Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major) (2017, neutral): “During the chick-rearing period, great tits rely mainly on arthropods to feed their young and arthropod biomass and diversity is overall reduced in cities (McIntyre, 2000; Helden et al., 2012).”
Predation rate on artificial nests increases with human housing density in suburban habitats (2003, background): “Throughout this gradient, urbanization results in the loss, fragmentation, and perforation of natural habitats (Miller et al. 2001) and in the concordant changes in the structure and composition of floral (Reichard et al. 2001) and faunal (Mackin-Rogalska et al. 1988, McIntyre 2000 ) communities.”
A comparison of 3 types of green roof as habitats for arthropods (2013, background): “Arthropods are rarely a priority in conservation actions or ecological studies (McIntyre, 2000; Hunter and Hunter, 2008).”
Climatic variability and landscape heterogeneity impact urban mosquito diversity and vector abundance and infection (2011, background): “Cities provide unique opportunities to test hypothesis regarding the drivers of biodiversity patterns and to measure their associated ‘‘ecosystem services’’ (McIntyre 2000, Grimm et al. 2008).”
Interspecific Competition Between Two Invasive Species of Container Mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), in Brazil (2004, background): “Juliano et al. (2002) and Lounibos et al. (2002) suggested that abiotic factors may also contribute to thedescribedhabitat segregation,becauseurbanareas may be warmer than surrounding areas (McIntyre 2000).”
Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management (2010, background): “Due to the inherent challenges of investigating abundant and species-rich systematic groups (McIntyre 2000) most studies on arthropods in urban areas concentrate on specific taxa or metrics of species diversity.”
The origin of urban communities: From the regional species pool to community assemblages in city (2020, background): “We expect our model city to select for drought-tolerant species with broad ecological niches, broad diet and good dispersal ability that are active early and for long periods during the season (McIntyre, 2000; Piano et al., 2017).”
Adaptability and vulnerability of high flying Neotropical aerial insectivorous bats to urbanization (2011, background): “Furthermore, previous studies (Blair & Launer, 1997; McIntyre, 2000) revealed lower insect abundance and diversity in the city compared to forest habitats and parklands.”