A5058793565- Urban Green Space and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Plant and animal studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Noise Effects and Management
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
University of Stuttgart
2019-2025
Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2024
Technische Universität Berlin
2011-2023
University of Helsinki
2023
ETH Zurich
2023
Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
2013-2022
Centre for European Economic Research
2022
University of Mannheim
2022
Kiel University
2022
In an increasingly urbanized world, urban biodiversity is people's primary contact with nature. However, as cities expand and densify, green blue spaces their are under pressure, risking declines in liveability. This Review discusses the benefits of multiple challenges it faces, identifies opportunities pathways towards developing sustainable, biodiverse for both humans The substantial biological richness that areas can harbour helps to mitigate environmental pressures, address adapt climate...
Urbanization is a major driver of environmental change and closely linked to the future biodiversity. Cities can host high richness plants animals, this urban biodiversity supports multiple regulating, provisioning cultural ecosystem services. Developing biodiversity-friendly cities thus inextricably sustainable development human wellbeing. The contributions Special Issue on “Biodiversity Conservation Sustainable Urban Development” in journal Sustainability illustrate role environments as...
Abstract Increasing urbanization worldwide calls for more sustainable urban development. Simultaneously, the global biodiversity crisis accentuates need of fostering within cities. Policies supporting nature conservation to understand people's acceptance biodiversity‐friendly greenspace management. We surveyed than 2,000 people in 19 European cities about their attitudes toward near‐natural grassland management public greenspaces, and related responses nine sociocultural parameters. Results...
Social acceptance of end users is indispensable for the implementation agricultural and solar energy systems to create a more sustainable productive residential building sector. Thus, main aim this study investigate social level two preferences Egyptian users, i.e., residents, in relation their different sociocultural backgrounds. Given that most construction Egypt taking place new cities, such strongly relates societal implications urban sustainability. An online survey was therefore...
Abstract Questions Which plant traits characterize successful and failed target species in urban grassland restoration? Do of differ from those resident species? How do relate to environmental constraints? Location In‐situ experimental sites on wastelands shrinking residential areas Berlin, Germany. Methods We established restoration treatments explored (plant height, specific leaf area, seed mass, shape, longevity index, CSR strategy type, life form). To shed light mechanisms that shape...
Gathering wild plants in cities (urban foraging) is likely an important, but understudied human-nature interaction globally. As large European are critically this regard, we performed in-depth ethnography-based interviews Berlin, Germany, to shed light on the cultural background of foragers, their motivations and which fungi gathered for purposes. Results demonstrate multiple uses 125 taxa, mostly frequently-occurring species also some Red List species, from a range formal informal...
In face of a dramatic decline wild bee species in many rural landscapes, potential conservation functions urban areas gain importance. Yet effects urbanization on pollinators, and particular bees, remain ambiguous not comprehensively understood. This is especially true for amenity grassland extensively managed wastelands within large-scale residential housing areas. Using Berlin as study region, we aimed to investigate (a) if these greenspaces are accepted by assemblages foraging habitats;...
As global population becomes increasingly urban, opportunities for people to experience nature have decreased. Counteracting this trend is a key challenge future urban development as interactions of with biodiversity support human health and wellbeing, may also result in positive attitudes towards conservation. Collecting edible plants surroundings, especially outside gardens ("urban foraging") traditional interaction nature, based on knowledge about multiple uses plants. Although some...
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people live in an unprecedented way. This includes severe impacts on people's health and wellbeing such as stress, reduced physical activity loneliness due to confinement. In parallel, had find ways secure their food, with fresh food especially scarce some regions lockdowns restricted flow of goods. As previous massive crises, practice home gardening seemed have increased during this pandemic. Yet we largely do not know which parts society...
Grasslands are widespread elements of urban greenspace providing recreational, psychological and aesthetic benefits to city residents. Two grassland types contrasting management dominate greenspaces: frequently mown, species-poor short-cut lawns less intensively managed, near-natural tall-grass meadows. The higher conservation value meadows makes interventions such as converting into a promising tool for biodiversity conservation. societal success interventions, however, depends on...