Ecosystems Services From Large Urban Green Spaces - The Biodiversity and Carbon Benefit of Urban Golf Courses

Green space context and vegetation complexity shape people’s preferences for urban public parks and residential gardens

V Harris, D Kendal, AK Hahs, CG Threlfall

2018-01-02

Landscape preferences shape decision-making and drive the ecological outcomes of urban landscapes. We investigate how people’s lan..

Increasing biodiversity in urban green spaces through simple vegetation interventions

CG Threlfall, L Mata, JA Mackie, AK Hahs, NE Stork, NSG Williams, SJ Livesley

2017-12-01

Cities are rapidly expanding world-wide and there is an increasing urgency to protect urban biodiversity, principally through the ..

Contrasting effects of urban habitat complexity on metabolic functional diversity and composition of litter and soil bacterial communities

A Ossola, C Aponte, AK Hahs, SJ Livesley

2017-06-01

Functional diversity and composition of soil bacterial communities affect important soil biogeochemical processes. In natural and ..

Conserving herbivorous and predatory insects in urban green spaces

L Mata, CG Threlfall, NSG Williams, AK Hahs, M Malipatil, NE Stork, SJ Livesley

2017-01-19

Insects are key components of urban ecological networks and are greatly impacted by anthropogenic activities. Yet, few studies hav..

Approaches to urban vegetation management and the impacts on urban bird and bat assemblages

CG Threlfall, NSG Williams, AK Hahs, SJ Livesley

2016-09-01

To balance the needs of people and biodiversity in cities, local governments are increasingly incorporating green spaces and urban..

Habitat Complexity Enhances Comminution and Decomposition Processes in Urban Ecosystems

A Ossola, AK Hahs, MA Nash, SJ Livesley

2016-08-01

Decomposition of organic matter is an essential process regulating fluxes of energy and matter within ecosystems. Although soil mi..

Variation in vegetation structure and composition across urban green space types

CG Threlfall, A Ossola, AK Hahs, NSG Williams, L Wilson, SJ Livesley

2016-06-10

HIGHLIGHTS • Vegetation structure and composition were measured in four major green space types • Remnants and golf courses suppor..

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

CD Ives, PE Lentini, CG Threlfall, K Ikin, DF Shanahan, GE Garrard, SA Bekessy, RA Fuller, L Mumaw, L Rayner, R Rowe, LE Valentine, D Kendal

2016-01-01

Aim: Although urbanization impacts many species, there is little information on the patterns of occurrences of threatened species ..

Soil carbon and carbon/nitrogen ratio change under tree canopy, tall grass, and turf grass areas of urban green space

SJ Livesley, A Ossola, CG Threlfall, AK Hahs, NSG Williams

2016-01-01

Soils in urban green spaces are an important carbon (C) store, but urban soils with a high carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratio can also..

Habitat complexity influences fine scale hydrological processes and the incidence of stormwater runoff in managed urban ecosystems

A Ossola, AK Hahs, SJ Livesley

2015-08-05

Urban ecosystems have traditionally been considered to be pervious features of our cities. Their hydrological properties have larg..

The conservation value of urban green space habitats for Australian native bee communities

CG Threlfall, K Walker, NSG Williams, AK Hahs, L Mata, N Stork, SJ Livesley

2015-07-01

Networks of urban green space can provide critical resources for wild bees, however it is unclear which attributes of green spaces..

Urban habitat complexity affects species richness but not environmental filtering of morphologically-diverse ants

A Ossola, MA Nash, FJ Christie, AK Hahs, SJ Livesley

2015-01-01

Habitat complexity is a major determinant of structure and diversity of ant assemblages. Following the size-grain hypothesis, smal..