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Urban Ecosystems

Published April 1, 2020 Calls for Papers Collections

PLOS ONE is calling for submissions spanning the intersection of ecological, climatological, and sociological patterns and processes within urban systems. Urbanisation is a key aspect of anthropogenic global change in the 21st century, and understanding its impacts is a critical challenge for contemporary science. Urban ecosystems occur at the nexus between urbanisation, microclimate, natural resources, organisms and human societies, and PLOS ONE recognises the significance of research that makes connections across these dynamic and complex systems. From the effects of urbanisation on the ecology of urban biota to the social benefits of urban biodiversity, and from the influence of the built environment on global climate change to innovation in microclimatic monitoring, this call for papers aims to bring together diverse perspectives on the physical, biological and social functioning of urban ecosystems.

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Guest Editors

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Mary Cadenasso

Mary Cadenasso Prof. Mary Cadenasso
February 11, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE
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Gina Cavan

Gina Cavan Dr. Gina Cavan
February 11, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE
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Mariana Mayer-Pinto

Mariana Mayer-Pinto Dr. Mariana Mayer-Pinto
February 11, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE
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Chris Lepczyk

Chris Lepczyk Prof. Chris Lepczyk
February 11, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE

Research Articles

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PLOS ONE Composition of nitrogen in urban residential stormwater runoff: Concentrations, loads, and source characterization of nitrate and organic nitrogen
February 28, 2020 Jariani Jani, Yun-Ya Yang, Mary Lusk, Gurpal Toor
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10.1371/journal.pone.0229764

PLOS ONE Investigation of mosquito larval habitats and insecticide resistance in an area with a high incidence of mosquito-borne diseases in Jining, Shandong Province
March 4, 2020 Yang Wang, Peng Cheng, Boyan Jiao, Xiao Song, Haiyang Wang, Haifang Wang, Huaiwei Wang, Xiaodan Huang, Maoqing Gong, Hongmei Liu
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10.1371/journal.pone.0219331

PLOS ONE The role of cultural norms in shaping attitudes towards amphibians in Cape Town, South Africa
February 24, 2020 Peta Brom, Pippin Anderson, Alan Channing, Leslie G. Underhill
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PLOS ONE Wet Season Nitrogen Export from a Residential Stormwater Pond
April 1, 2020 Jariani Jani, Mary Lusk, Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal Toor
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10.1371/journal.pone.0228295

PLOS ONE Urban water systems: Development of micro-level indicators to support integrated policy
February 24, 2020 Olivia Jensen, Adilah Khalis
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10.1371/journal.pone.0228965

PLOS ONE A botanic garden as a tool to combine public perception of nature and life-science investigations on native/exotic plants interactions with local pollinators
February 20, 2020 Manuela Giovanetti, Claudia Giuliani, Samuel Boff, Gelsomina Fico, Daniela Lupi
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PLOS ONE Urban land cover type determines the sensitivity of carbon dioxide fluxes to precipitation in Phoenix, Arizona
February 12, 2020 Elí R. Pérez-Ruiz, Enrique R. Vivoni, Nicole P. Templeton
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PLOS ONE Sex, personality and conspecific density influence natal dispersal with lifetime fitness consequences in urban and rural burrowing owls
February 12, 2020 Álvaro Luna, Antonio Palma, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, José L. Tella, Martina Carrete
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PLOS ONE Examining the distributional equity of urban tree canopy cover and ecosystem services across United States cities
February 11, 2020 Christopher Riley, Mary Gardiner
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PLOS ONE Effects of urbanization on resource use and individual specialization in coyotes (Canis latrans) in southern California
February 5, 2020 Rachel N. Larson, Justin L. Brown, Tim Karels, Seth P. D. Riley
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PLOS ONE Vegetation trends associated with urban development: The role of golf courses
February 5, 2020 Thu Thi Nguyen, Paul Barber, Richard Harper, Tran Vu Khanh Linh, Bernard Dell
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PLOS ONE Multi-region assessment of pharmaceutical exposures and predicted effects in USA wadeable urban-gradient streams
January 30, 2020 Paul M. Bradley, Celeste A. Journey, Daniel T. Button, Daren M. Carlisle, Bradley J. Huffman, Sharon L. Qi, Kristin M. Romanok, Peter C. Van Metre
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10.1371/journal.pone.0230158

PLOS ONE The movements of a recently urbanized wading bird reveal changes in season timing and length related to resource use
March 19, 2020 Anjelika Kidd-Weaver, Catharine N. Welch, Maureen H. Murray, Henry C. Adams, Taylor J. Ellison, Michael J. Yabsley, Sonia M. Hernandez, Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman
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PLOS ONE Advanced biofilm analysis in streams receiving organic deicer runoff
January 22, 2020 Michelle Nott, Heather Driscoll, Minoru Takeda, Mahesh Vangala, Steven Corsi, Scott Tighe
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PLOS ONE An improved method for assessing mismatches between supply and demand in urban regulating ecosystem services: A case study in Tabriz, Iran
August 15, 2019 Vahid Amini Parsa, Esmail Salehi, Ahmad Reza Yavari, Peter M. van Bodegom
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PLOS ONE Anthropogenic noise affects male house wren response to but not detection of territorial intruders
July 31, 2019 Erin E. Grabarczyk, Sharon A. Gill
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PLOS ONE A participatory community case study of periurban coastal flood vulnerability in southern Ecuador
October 25, 2019 Erica Tauzer, Mercy J Borbor-Cordova, Jhoyzett Mendoza, Telmo De La Cuadra, Jorge Cunalata, Anna M Stewart-Ibarra
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PLOS ONE Gut microbiome shifts with urbanization and potentially facilitates a zoonotic pathogen in a wading bird
March 5, 2020 Maureen H. Murray, Emily W. Lankau, Anjelika D. Kidd, Catharine N. Welch, Taylor Ellison, Henry C. Adams, Erin K. Lipp, Sonia M. Hernandez
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PLOS ONE Assessing adaptation and mitigation potential of roadside trees under the influence of vehicular emissions: A case study of Grevillea robusta and Mangifera indica planted in an urban city of India
January 28, 2020 Hukum Singh, Mukta Yadav, Narendra Kumar, Amit Kumar, Manoj Kumar
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PLOS ONE Balancing fire risk and human thermal comfort in fire-prone urban landscapes
December 27, 2019 Tania A. MacLeod, Amy K. Hahs, Trent D. Penman
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10.1371/journal.pone.0227915

PLOS ONE City to city learning and knowledge exchange for climate resilience in southern Africa
January 24, 2020 Mzime Ndebele-Murisa, Chipo Mubaya, Lulu Pretorius, Rudo Mamombe, Kornelia Iipinge, Wilma Nchito, John Mfune, Gilbert Siame, Brenda Mwalukanga
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PLOS ONE Early succession on slag compared to urban soil: A slower recovery
December 19, 2019 Heng-Xing Zou, Alison Anastasio, Catherine Pfister
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10.1371/journal.pone.0227480

PLOS ONE Downscaling NLDAS-2 daily maximum air temperatures using MODIS land surface temperatures
January 16, 2020 William L. Crosson, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Tabassum Z. Insaf
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Markus Spiske

PLOS ONE Ecohydrology of urban trees under passive and active irrigation in a semiarid city
November 8, 2019 Anthony Luketich, Shirley Papuga, Michael Crimmins
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PLOS ONE Ecosystem functioning in urban grasslands: The role of biodiversity, plant invasions and urbanization
November 22, 2019 Gabriela Onandia, Conrad Schittko, Masahiro Ryo, Maud Bernard-Verdier, Tina Heger, Jasmin Joshi, Ingo Kowarik, Arthur Gessler
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10.1371/journal.pone.0215796

PLOS ONE Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale
July 25, 2019 Matthew Dennis, Katherine L. Scaletta, Philip James
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10.1371/journal.pone.0224164

PLOS ONE Factors influencing bird-building collisions in the downtown area of a major North American city
November 6, 2019 Scott Loss, Sirena Lao, Joanna Eckles, Abigail Anderson, Robert Blair, Reed Turner
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PLOS ONE Fecal indicator bacteria and virus removal in stormwater biofilters: Effects of biochar, media saturation, and field conditioning
September 25, 2019 Benjamin P. Kranner, A. R. M. Nabiul Afrooz, Nicole J. M. Fitzgerald, Alexandria B. Boehm
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10.1371/journal.pone.0225078

PLOS ONE Friends with benefits: The effects of vegetative shading on plant survival in a green roof environment
November 14, 2019 Axton C. Aguiar, Sharon A. Robinson, Kristine French
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10.1371/journal.pone.0225347

PLOS ONE Hamsters in the city: A study on the behaviour of a population of common hamsters (Cricetus cricetus) in urban environment
November 21, 2019 Anna Flamand, Nancy Rebout, Camille Bordes, Lauréline Guinnefollau, Matthieu Bergès, Fanny Ajak, Carina Siutz, Eva Millesi, Christiane Weber, Odile Petit
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PLOS ONE Land snail dispersal, abundance and diversity on green roofs
November 14, 2019 Michael L. McKinney, Nicholas S. Gladstone, Jillian G. Lentz, Faith A. Jackson
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PLOS ONE Land use change, carbon stocks and tree species diversity in green spaces of a secondary city in Myanmar, Pyin Oo Lwin
November 26, 2019 Helen, Marcin Pawel Jarzebski, Alexandros Gasparatos
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PLOS ONE Life-cycle mediated effects of urbanization on parasite communities in the estuarine fish, Fundulus heteroclitus
December 2, 2019 James Alfieri, Tavis Anderson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0220687

PLOS ONE Managing biological invasions in urban environments with the acceptance sampling approach
August 23, 2019 Denys Yemshanov, Robert G. Haight, Cuicui Chen, Ning Liu, Christian J. K. MacQuarrie, Frank H. Koch, Robert Venette, Krista Ryall
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10.1371/journal.pone.0216511

PLOS ONE Modelling tick bite risk by combining random forests and count data regression models
December 10, 2019 Irene Garcia-Martí, Raul Zurita-Milla, Arno Swart
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10.1371/journal.pone.0227731

PLOS ONE Multiple fragmented habitat-patch use in an urban breeding passerine, the Short-toed Treecreeper
January 14, 2020 Katherine R. S. Snell, Rie B. E. Jensen, Troels E. Ortvad, Mikkel Willemoes, Kasper Thorup
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10.1371/journal.pone.0222714

PLOS ONE Projected urban growth in the southeastern USA puts small streams at risk
October 16, 2019 Peter C. Van Metre, Ian R. Waite, Sharon Qi, Barbara Mahler, Adam Terando, Michael Wieczorek, Michael Meador, Paul Bradley, Celeste Journey, Travis Schmidt, Daren Carlisle
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PLOS ONE Population structuring of the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on a microgeographic scale
August 2, 2019 Laura Cristina Multini, Ana Letícia da Silva de Souza, Mauro Toledo Marrelli, André Barretto Bruno Wilke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0227311

PLOS ONE The regenerative compatibility: A synergy between healthy ecosystems, environmental attitudes, and restorative experiences
January 7, 2020 Matteo Giusti, Karl Samuelsson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0217177

PLOS ONE Tire shops in Miami-Dade County, Florida are important producers of vector mosquitoes
May 20, 2019 André B. B. Wilke, Chalmers Vasquez, William Petrie, John C. Beier
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PLOS ONE Soil organic matter rather than ectomycorrhizal diversity is related to urban tree health
November 22, 2019 Maarten Van Geel, Kang Yu, Gerrit Peeters, Kasper van Acker, Miguel Ramos, Cindy Serafim, Pierre Kastendeuch, Georges Najjar, Thierry Ameglio, Jérôme Ngao, Marc Saudreau, Paula Castro, Ben Somers, Olivier Honnay
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PLOS ONE Statistical modeling of surveillance data to identify correlates of urban malaria risk: A population-based study in the Amazon Basin
August 9, 2019 Rodrigo M. Corder, Gilberto A. Paula, Anaclara Pincelli, Marcelo U. Ferreira
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PLOS ONE The effects of urbanization on bee communities depends on floral resource availability and bee functional traits
December 2, 2019 Caleb Wilson, Mary Jamieson
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PLOS ONE Up on the roof and down in the dirt: Differences in substrate properties (SOM, potassium, phosphorus and pH) and their relationships to each other between sedum and wildflower green roofs
December 13, 2019 Renée McAlister, Anja S. Rott
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PLOS ONE Urban heat island conditions experienced by the Western black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus): Extreme heat slows development but results in behavioral accommodations
September 6, 2019 J. Chadwick Johnson, Javier Urcuyo, Claire Moen, Dale R. Stevens II
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10.1371/journal.pone.0222069

PLOS ONE Vegetation communities on commercial developments are heterogenous and determined by development and landscaping decisions, not socioeconomics
September 10, 2019 Karen Dyson

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