The flora of German cities is naturally species rich

By I. Kühn, R. Brandl, S. Klotz. 2004

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The ecology of urban areas and their functions for species diversity (2011, unknown): “Urban areas mostly evolved in geographical regions that are naturally rich in species (Kühn et al. 2004).”
Effects of settlement size, urban heat island and habitat type on urban plant biodiversity (2017, background): “…input of seeds that increases with the level of urbanization and the city size (Luck & Smallbone, 2011; Pyšek, 1998) lead to high plant species diversity in total urban floras (Deutschewitz, Lausch, Kühn, & Klotz, 2003; Klotz, 1990; Kühn et al., 2004; Stadler, Trefflich, Klotz, & Brandl, 2000).”
Grassland diversity related to the Late Iron Age human population density (2007, background): “biodiversity hotspots or, alternatively, due to increased biodiversity caused by human activities (Cincotta et al. 2000; Kiihn et al. 2004).”
Non-native species in urban environments: patterns, processes, impacts and challenges (2017, background): “Many urban areas have high levels of biodiversity and are therefore important foci for regional and global conservation efforts (e.g. Miller and Hobbs 2002; Kühn et al. 2004; Croci et al. 2008; Kowarik 2011).”
Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals (2008, background): “Several other studies showing high plant diversity in European studies have suggested that high urban plant diversity is caused by the extensive habitat heterogeneity found in urban areas produced by variations in land use (Kowarik 1995, Kuhn et al. 2004 ).”
Native and alien floras in urban habitats: a comparison across 32 cities of central Europe (2012, background): “Their distribution is a result of historical and environmental factors such as bedrock type, landscape productivity, land-use history, development history or planning and management strategies (Kühn et al., 2004).”
How species traits and affinity to urban land use control large‐scale species frequency (2009, background): “…flora (Kleyer et al., 2008; http://www.leda-traitbase.org/LEDAportal/), BiolFlor = biological and ecological traits of the German vascular flora (Klotz et al., 2002; Kühn et al., 2004b; http://www.ufz.de/biolflor), SID = Seed Information Database (Flynn et al., 2004, http://www.kew.org/data/sid).”
Island biogeography for an urbanizing world: how extinction and colonization may determine biological diversity in human-dominated landscapes (2005, background): “Colonization is greatly accentuated as people remove barriers to dispersal, juxtapose a variety of land covers, and directly or indirectly introduce species outside of their native ranges (Kühn et al., 2004).”
Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review (2017, unknown): “As urban areas are hotspots for non-native species occurrence (Kühn et al. 2004), it is important for BES research to focus on both services and disservices of non-native species (Kowarik 2011).”
Motivations for Conserving Urban Biodiversity (2010, background): “Many cities were originally established in riparian areas, ecological transition zones, or other locations that are naturally species rich (Kühn et al. 2004), which creates both problems and opportunities for conservation biology.”
Distance decay of similarity among European urban floras: the impact of anthropogenic activities on β diversity (2008, background): “Urban areas also contain more species of vascular plants than surrounding areas due to the presence of non-native species and also the presence of additional native species ( Kuhn et al. , 2004; Wania et al. , 2006).”