Ecological processes associated with different animal taxa in urban environments.
Ecological processes associated with different animal taxa in urban environments.
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城市环境中与不同动物类群相关的生态过程。
DOI：
10.1002/ecs2.3712
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发表时间：
2021
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Tadashi.
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作者：
Evans;Maldwyn J; Barton;Philip S; Westgate;Martin J; Soga;Masashi; Fujita;Go; Miyashita;Tadashi.
城市化在全球范围内日益加剧，对生物多样性及其所执行的生态过程产生了广泛的影响。然而，对城市环境中生物多样性所支持的生态过程的范围以及执行这些过程的不同类群的知识知之甚少。我们使用文本分析的方法来确定研究趋势和知识的差距，在文献中提供的动物在城市环境中的生态过程。我们发现，在城市生态过程的研究，分组研究到那些明确的生态过程和那些专注于生物多样性，并作出了隐含的生态过程的联系。我们还发现，城市生态过程研究中的主要类群是昆虫，其研究数量是鸟类或哺乳动物的两倍多，这可能是由于它们与关键过程和服务（例如，授粉、污染生物监测）和损害（例如，害虫、疾病传播）。我们发现陆地和水生研究之间进一步分裂，城市水生研究在过去20年中的相对流行率也有所下降。为了巩固和推进城市环境中的生态过程的研究，我们建议，这将是重要的桥梁明确的服务和其他更一般的生物多样性的研究之间的鸿沟。这可以通过更加关注非昆虫类群提供的过程以及整合水生和陆生观点来实现。
Urbanization is increasing globally with wide‐ranging consequences for biodiversity and the ecological processes it performs. Yet knowledge of the range of ecological processes supported by biodiversity in urban environments, and the different taxa that perform these processes is poorly understood. We used a text‐analysis approach to identify the research trends and gaps in knowledge in the literature on ecological processes provided by animals in urban environments. We found a divide in urban ecological processes research that grouped studies into those with an explicit link to ecological processes and those that focused on biodiversity and made an implicit link to ecological processes. We also found that the dominant taxa in urban ecological processes research were insects, which has more than twice as many studies as birds or mammals, potentially due to their recognized and explicit link to key processes and services (e.g., pollination, pollution biomonitoring) and disservices (e.g., pests, disease transmission). We found a further split between terrestrial and aquatic studies, with urban aquatic studies also declining in relative prevalence over the last 20 yr. To consolidate and advance research on ecological processes in urban environments, we suggest it will be important to bridge the divide between studies on explicit services and others on more general biodiversity. This might be achieved by placing greater focus on the processes provided by non‐insect taxa, and by integrating aquatic and terrestrial perspectives.