Note that additional literature is given in connection with lectures, assignments, seminars and project work.

Books:

Douglas I et al. 2020. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, Second edititon. Routledge, New York. Available as ebook from SLU library

Marzluff MJ et al. 2008. Urban Ecology. An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature. Springer, New York. Available as ebook from SLU library

Articles and book chapters:

Baldock KCR. 2020. Opportunities and threats for pollinator conservation in global towns and cities. Current Opinion in Insect Science 38: 63-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2020.01.006

Berthon K, Thomas F and Bekessy S.2021. The role of‘nativeness’in urban greening to support animal biodiversity. Landscape and Urban Planning 205: 103959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103959

DeFries and Nagendra. 2017. Ecosystem management as a wicked problem. Science 356: 265–270. https://doi.org/ 10.1126/science.aal1950

Egan PA, Dicks LV, Hokkanen HMT and Stenberg JA. 2020. Delivering integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM). Trends in Plant Science 25: 577-589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2020.01.006

Eggermont et al. 2015. Nature-based Solutions: New Influence for Environmental Management and Research in Europe. GAIA 24/4: 243-248

Elmqvist T et al. 2015. Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 14: p. 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2015.05.001

Fors H, Aagaard Hagemann F, Ode Sang Å, Randrup TB. 2021. Striving for inclusion – A systematic review of long-term participation in strategic management of urban green spaces. Front. Sustain. Cities, Sec. Urban Greening 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.572423

Isaksson C. 2020. Urban ecophysiology: beyond costs, stress and biomarkers. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb203794. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.203794 (

Isaksson C and Bonier F. 2020. Urban evolutionary physiology In: Urban Evolutionary Biology. Edited by Szulkin M, Munshi-South J and Charmantier A. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836841.003.0013

Kjellberg Jensen J, Ekroos J, Watson H, Salmón P, Olsson P and Isaksson C. 2023. Urban tree composition is associated with breeding success of a passerine bird, but effects vary within and between years. Oecologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05319-8

Kjellberg Jensen J, Jayousi S, von Post M, Isaksson C and Persson AS. 2023. Contrasting effects of tree origin and urbanization on invertebrate abundance and tree phenology. Ecological Applications, 32(2): e02491. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2491

Jesse B Borden, S Luke Flory. 2021. Urban evolution of invasive species. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19: 184-191. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2295

Johnson TJ and Munshi-South J. 2017. Evolution of life in urban environments. Science 358. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam8327

Karlsson Green K, Stenberg JA and Lankinen Å. 2020. Making sense of integrated pest management (IPM) in the light of evolution. Evolutionary Applications 13: 1791–1805. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13067

Lin BB, Philpott SM and Jha S. 2015. The future of urban agriculture and biodiversity-ecosystem services: Challenges and next steps. Basic and Applied Ecology, 16(3): p. 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2015.01.005

Lowe EC et al. 2019. Engaging urban stakeholders in the sustainable management of arthropod pests. Journal of Pest Science, 92(3): p. 987-1002. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-019-01087-8

Max R. Lambert, Kristien I. Brans, Simone Des Roches, Colin M. Donihue, Sarah E. Diamond. 2021. Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions, Trends in Ecology & Evolution 36: 239-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.11.002

Mitchell ME, Emilsson T and Buffam I. 2021. Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus variation along a green roof chronosequence: Implications for green roof ecosystem development. Ecological Engineering 164: 106211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106211

Milot E and Stearns SC. 2020. Evolution of humans in cities. In: Urban Evolutionary Ecology. Edited by Szuskin M., Munshi-South J and Charmantier A. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836841.003.0016 File available for download

McKinney ML. 2008. Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals. Urban Ecosystems 11: 161–176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-007-0045-4

Randrup TB, Buijs A, Konijnendijk CC, Wild T. 2020. Moving beyond the nature-based solutions discourse: introducing nature-based thinking. Urban Ecosystems 23: 919–926. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-00964-w

Santangelo JS, Rivkin LR and Johnson TJ. 2018. The evolution of city life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285: 20181529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1529

Santangelo JS et al. 2022. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375: 1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0989

Steffen W et al. 2015. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science 347:1259855. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259855

Stenberg JA. 2017. A conceptual framework for integrated pest management. Trends in Plant Science 22: 759-769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.06.010

Stone B et al. 2010. Urban form and extreme heat events: Are sprawling cities more vulnerable to climate change than compact cities? Environ Health Perspect 118:1425-1428. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.0901879

Verelli BC et al. 2022. A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37: 1006-1019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.07.012

Wenzel A, Grass I, Belavadi VV and Tscharntke T. 2019. How urbanization is driving pollinator diversity and pollination – A systematic review. Biological Conservation 108321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108321