In this new paper, researchers examined breeding bird assemblages from 58 cities across the globe to compare their phylogenetic and functional diversity to their regional bird assemblages. The goal was to determine the efficacy of a new method of sampling to circumvent the “space-for-time” substitution used in urban studies.

La Sorte, F.A., C.A. Lepczyk, M.F.J. Aronson, M.A. Goddard, M. Hedblom, M. Katti, I. MacGregor-Fors, U. Mörtberg, C.H. Nilon, P.S. Warren, N.S.G Williams, and J. Yang. (2018). The phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional breeding bird assemblages is reduced and constricted through urbanization. Diversity and Distributions Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12738

The latest publication from our Boston urban ecology project just came out in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening: Active Greening or Rewilding the city: How does the intention behind small pockets of urban green affect use? by Rachel Danford, Michael Strohbach, Paige Warren, and Robert Ryan

The journal gave us this link, designed to provide 50 days’ free access to the article: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1WgP95m5d7a60d