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Baltimore LTER research has helped challenge the assumption that urban biodiversity is low by showing that biological communities in urban environments are diverse and dynamic. This diversity ultimately affects human well-being, and fluxes of water, energy, carbon, and nutrients.

 

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  1. Groffman, PM et al. 2017a. Ecological homogenization of residential macrosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017- 0191
  2. Schmidt, DJ et al. 2017. Urbanization erodes ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and may cause microbial communities to converge. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0123
  3. Swan, SM et al. 2017. Differential organization of taxonomic and functional diversity in an urban woody plant metacommunity. Applied Vegetation Science. doi: 10.1111/avsc.12266

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Posted:  July 6, 2020