Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face equally unprecedented hydrologic changes due to global climate change. Here we use a detailed hydrologic model, demographic projections, and climate change scenarios to estimate per-capita water availability ...

Novel assemblages of biotic, abiotic, and social components resulting from human-induced actions (e.g., climate change, land-use species movement) have been labeled as “Novel Ecosystems”, or Urban Ecosystems” when emerging in urban contexts. This concept has shifting perspectives among some scientists making them question traditional values about human-nature interactions a rapidly changing era...

Nearly all ecosystems host diverse microbiomes that support vital ecosystem processes. At the same time, these and their are increasingly altered by human activities, particularly in highly managed urban environments. While microbial ecologists beginning to understand drivers of assembly link between community structure function many ecosystems, few advances have been applied ecosystems. In thi...

At the beginning of 20th century, industry and urbanization were booming mainly in developed countries. As a result, state environment has deteriorated various environmental problems have begun to arise. This process, which took place past centuries, i.e., development urbanization, today is equally intensive all countries world. Many cities industrial zones built, urban ecosystems (urboecosyste...

Urbanization continues to accelerate and profoundly transform the surface of the earth, resulting in devastating effects on the structure and functioning of ecosystems throughout the world. In the Phoenix metropolitan region, urbanization has dramatically changed the Sonoran Desert landscape in the past several decades. To understand how urban ecosystems work and to achieve ecological sustainab...

Urban tree planting initiatives are being actively promoted as a planning tool to enable urban areas to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, enhance urban sustainability and improve human health and well-being. However, opportunities for creating new areas of green space within cities are often limited and tree planting initiatives may be constrained to kerbside locations. At this scal...