Mark McDonnell

A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

L Ruth Rivkin, James S Santangelo, Marina Alberti, Myla FJ Aronson, Charlotte W de Keyzer, Sarah E Diamond, Marie-Josee Fortin, Lauren J Frazee, Amanda J Gorton, Andrew P Hendry, Yang Liu, Jonathan B Losos, J Scott MacIvor, Ryan A Martin, Mark J McDonnell, Lindsay S Miles, Jason Munshi-South, Robert W Ness, Amy EM Newman, Mason R Stothart, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS

Urban ecosystems are rapidly expanding throughout the world, but how urban growth affects the evolutionary ecology of species livi..

Carbon pools and trace gas fluxes in urban forest soils

PM Groffman, RV Pouyat, MJ McDonnell, STA Pickett, WC Zipperer

Book Chapter  |  2018

Urbanization is a process that affects large areas of the earth’s surface. Urban environments are distinct from more natural envir..

The importance of small urban reserves for plant conservation

Dave Kendal, Ben J Zeeman, Karen Ikin, Ian D Lunt, Mark J McDonnell, Alison Farrar, Lilian M Pearce, John W Morgan

Journal article  |  2017  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

There has been much debate about the effectiveness of different sized reserves for nature conservation. However, in human-dominate..

Functional trait changes in the floras of 11 cities across the globe in response to urbanization

Estibaliz Palma, Jane A Catford, Richard T Corlett, Richard P Duncan, Amy K Hahs, Michael A McCarthy, Mark J McDonnell, Ken Thompson, Nicholas SG Williams, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2017  |  ECOGRAPHY

Urbanization causes major environmental changes globally, which can potentially homogenize biota across cities through the loss an..

Biotic homogenization in an increasingly urbanized temperate grassland ecosystem

Ben J Zeeman, Mark J McDonnell, Dave Kendal, John W Morgan

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

QUESTION: How does urbanization and associated declines in fire frequency alter the floristic composition of native temperate gras..

Foreword: Creating cities where the pines flourish and jays still scream

MJ McDonnell

Book  |  2017

The art and science of writing a publishable article

STA Pickett, MJ McDonnell

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Urban Ecology

Evolution and future of urban ecological science: ecology in, of, and for the city

STA Pickett, ML Cadenasso, DL Childers, MJ Mcdonnell, W Zhou

Journal article  |  2016  |  Ecosystem Health and Sustainability

The contrast between ecology in cities and ecology of cities has emphasized the increasing scope of urban ecosystem research. Ecol..

The ecological future of cities

Mark J McDonnell, Ian MacGregor-Fors

Journal article  |  2016  |  SCIENCE

The discipline of urban ecology arose in the 1990s, primarily motivated by a widespread interest in documenting the distribution a..

Moving beyond biotic homogenization: searching for new insights into vegetation dynamics

Amy K Hahs, Mark J McDonnell

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Biotic homogenization has been predicted to occur in cities across the world. However, the empirical evidence has been less than c..