Editorial: Urban Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Tropical Regions

Souza, Franco L.; Oliveira, José A. Puppim de; Lepczyk, Christopher A.

doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.791070

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“…There are a wide variety of ecosystem services which are important in urban contexts (Keeler et al, 2019; McDonald, 2015; Souza et al, 2021). Ecosystem services tend to be preferentially provided by certain types of green spaces (de Macedo et al, 2021).…”

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Tropical cities as windows into the ecosystems of our present and future

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Urban ecology and tropical biology have both developed rapidly in recent decades and matured into important interdisciplinary fields, with significant implications for biodiversity and human communities globally. However, urban ecosystems within the tropics remain understudied and poorly characterized despite these systems representing major hotspots for both biodiversity and human population growth. Here we review the state of the field of “tropical urban ecology.” We first evaluated and propose ecological hypotheses about how tropical versus extratropical species and ecosystems might differ from one another in how they respond to urbanization pressures. While data remain limited, we expect that tropical biodiversity should be at least as vulnerable to urbanization (and potentially more vulnerable) than extratropical biodiversity. We also examined the importance of ecosystem services in tropical cities and demonstrate the challenges in quantifying, managing, and sustaining these across diverse socioeconomic and environmental contexts. Finally, we propose an agenda for moving the field of tropical urban ecology forward through an interdisciplinary lens that synthesizes recent advances in both urban ecology and tropical biology. Specifically, advances and development in community science, Earth observation, environmental justice, One Health, and land sparing/sharing strategies could lead to major steps forward in the conservation of biodiversity in tropical cities. As the world urbanizes increasingly in biodiverse‐rich tropical ecosystems, we must have strong conceptual frameworks and increased data/attention on both the ecological and human communities most impacted by these significant global changes.

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Editorial: Urban Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Tropical Regions

Cited by 2 publications

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Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature

Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature

Tropical cities as windows into the ecosystems of our present and future

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