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Urban Ecosystems is an international journal devoted to scientific investigations of urban environments and the relationships between socioeconomic and ecological structures and processes in urban environments. The scope of the journal is broad, including interactions between urban ecosystems and associated suburban and rural environments. Contributions may span a range of specific subject areas as they may apply to urban environments: biodiversity, biogeochemistry, conservation biology, wildlife and fisheries management, ecosystem ecology, ecosystem services, environmental chemistry, hydrology, landscape architecture, meteorology and climate, policy, population biology, social and human ecology, soil science, and urban planning.

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF:
Glenn R. Guntenspergen
University of Minnesota-Duluth, Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth, USA
Charles Nilon
School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
SPECIAL FEATURES EDITOR:
Wayne Zipperer
U.S. Forest Service, USA
ADVISORY COUNCIL:
Daniel B. Botkin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Steward T.A. Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, USA
Mark McDonnell, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
Rowan A. Rowntree, United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service, USA 
Mark R. Walbridge, United States Department of Agriculture - ARS, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD:

Loren Byrne, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, USA
Colleen Downs, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Travis Gallo, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Dagmar Haase, Humboldt University, Germany 
Marcus Hedblom, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
C.Y. Jim, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yeshitela Kumelachew, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Christoph Küffer, HSR Rapperswil, Switzerland
Lucas Leveau, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Christopher A. Lepczyk, University of Hawaii, USA 
Han Li, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA
Susannah B. Lerman, USDA Forest Service, MA, USA
Travis Longcore, USC School of Architecture, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Seth Magle, Lincoln Park Zoo, USA
Ulla Mörtberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
David J. Nowak, USDA Forest Service, USA
Anthony S. Overton, Samford University, Birmingham. AL, USA
Salman Qureshi, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Michael Strohbach, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Tim Van de Voorde, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Nicholas Scott Williams, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jingzhu Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China