Urbanization has been identified as one of the main drivers of biodiversity decline and biotic homogenization worldwide (Faeth et al., 2011;McKinney, 2006). The accelerating expansion of urban areas leads to severe land-use changes and can affect biodiversity and ecosystem functions in persistent ways through habitat degradation or destruction, urban warming and pollution (Grimm et al., 2008;McKinney, 2008). Moreover, cities are growing at an exponential rate with already half of the world population considered as urban dwellers (United Nations, 2018). On top of that, current projections estimate that this number will further increase to reach 68% by 2050
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