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Outstanding challenges for urban conservation research and action
Institution:1. UMR CNRS 7733, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Lab LADYSS, 2 rue Valette, 75005 Paris, France;2. UMR7204 CNRS, CESCO Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 51, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France;3. Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, Segoe Building Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel;4. Bio Intelligence Service, 20–22 Villa Deshayes, 75014 Paris, France;1. Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States;2. Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis Laboratory, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States;1. 8633 Amber Oak Court, Orlando, FL 32817, USA;2. Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA;1. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, 1910 East West Road, Sherman Lab 101, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA;2. University of Massachusetts, School for the Environment, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393, USA;3. Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 3190 Maile Way, St. John Hall 102, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA;4. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2424 Maile Way, Saunders Hall 721G, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA;5. Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development, P.O. Box 324, Pokhara, Gairapatan, Kaski, Nepal;1. School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China;2. Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco‐Restoration, Tiantong National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China;3. Institute of Eco-Chongming, Shanghai, 200062, China;4. Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden, the Netherlands;5. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel;6. Department of Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming, 650241, China;7. College of Landscape Architecture and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China
Abstract:Researchers, advocates and policymakers have proposed urban conservation as an emerging, integrative discipline that can contribute to sustainable cities by delivering co-benefits to human and non-human components of biodiversity. Given the recent growth in biodiversity-friendly designs and management schemes, there is an urgent need for a synthesis of this fragmented research base to inform planners and decision-makers. We conducted a systematic multidisciplinary literature review (787 papers) and found that the importance of urban areas for general conservation is not convincingly supported by empirical research. Only few studies demonstrated that cities can directly contribute to conservation efforts, by hosting viable populations of rare or endangered species, or by providing green corridors for the passage of natural populations. From a social perspective, while several studies demonstrated that green infrastructure could provide services for people (notably cultural services), only few studies explored the role of species diversity per se. Our review also shows strong geographical, location and taxonomic biases in urban biodiversity conservation research that make generalisations difficult. It is a disturbing paradox that while research in urban biodiversity conservation is rising exponentially, the main motivations for conserving urban biodiversity remain largely untested and unproven. We thus propose a framework for promoting integrative urban conservation research to bridge those gaps. Together, these findings warn against expanding cities under green planning and call for enhancing biodiversity experience by improving the quality of existing green spaces throughout the entire urban matrix. We provide a set of recommendations for practitioners and decision-makers to continue action.
Keywords:Urban nature  Ecosystem services  Quality of life  Cities  Education  Biodiversity  Well-being  Sustainability  Policy  Interdisciplinary
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