Studying how residential yard management decisions interact with biodiversity and ecosystem processes across the United States

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Urban biotic homogenization is expected to be especially important in residential yards, where similar human preferences and management …

Although the yard is a hybrid social and material landscape, much social science research emphasizes the socio-cultural factors and has …

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Alternative ecological futures for the American Residential Macrosystem

A research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation program on “MacroSystems Biology: Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales

ECOLOGICAL HOMOGENIZATION OF URBAN AMERICA

A research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation program on “MacroSystems Biology: Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales

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