A dose of gardening
Soga, M., Gaston, K.J. & Yamaura, Y. 2017. Gardening is beneficial for health: a meta-analysis. Preventive Medicine Reports 5, 92-99. [Image from Shutterstock] There is increasing evidence that gardening provides…
Read moreTracking garden birds
Cox, D.T.C., Inger, R., Hancock, S., Anderson, K. & Gaston, K.J. 2016. Movement of feeder-using songbirds: the influence of urban features. Scientific Reports 6, 37669. [Image from Shutterstock] Private gardens…
Read more3D vegetation structure measured from a plane
Hancock, S., Anderson, K., Disney, M. & Gaston, K.J. 2017. Measurement of fine-spatial-resolution 3D vegetation structure with airborne waveform lidar: Calibration and validation with voxelised terrestrial lidar. Remote Sensing of…
Read moreHorizon scanning for urban ecosystems
Stanley, M.C., Beggs, J.R., Bassett, I.E., Burns, B.R., Dirks, K.N., Jones, D.N., Linklater, W.L., Macinnis-Ng, C., Simcock, R., Souter-Brown, G., Trowsdale, S.A. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Emerging threats in urban…
Read moreSongbirds and connecting people to nature
Cox, D.T.C. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Likeability of garden birds: importance of species knowledge & richness in connecting people to nature. PLoS ONE 10(11), e0141505. (Image from Shutterstock) Interacting with…
Read moreLiDAR for vegetation modelling
Anderson, K., Hancock, S., Disney, M. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Is waveform worth it? A comparison of LiDAR approaches for vegetation and landscape characterization. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation,…
Read moreIUCN Red List assessment: Cactaceae
Goettsch, B., Hilton-Taylor, C., Cruz-Piñón, G., Duffy, J.P., Frances, A., et al. (2015) High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction. Nature Plants 1, 15142. (Image from Shutterstock) A high…
Read moreArtificial light and food webs
Sanders, D., Kehoe, R., Tiley, K., Bennie, J., Cruse, D., Davies, T.W., van Veen F.J.F. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Artificial nighttime light changes aphid-parasitoid population dynamics. Scientific Reports 5, 15232.…
Read moreLand-sparing, land-sharing and use of urban greenspace
Soga, M., Yamaura, Y., Aikoh, T., Shoji, Y., Kubo, T. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Reducing the extinction of experience: Association between urban form and recreational use of public greenspace. Landscape…
Read moreLand-sparing for urban ecosystem services
Stott, I., Soga, M., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Land sparing is crucial for urban ecosystem services. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13: 387–393. (Image from Shutterstock) The…
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