The discovery of a rare fly in a North London cemetery marks my entry point into a wider reflection on the value and significance of urban biodiversity. Using different indices of ecological endangerment, along with a critical reading of new materialist insights, this paper explores the cultural, political, and scientific significance of saproxylic (rotten wood) invertebrate communities in an urban context. The paper brings the fields of urban ecology and post‐humanism into closer dialogue to illuminate aspects to urban nature that have not been systematically explored within existing analytical frameworks. We consider a series of intersecting worlds, both human and non‐human, as part of a glimpse into saproxylic dimensions to urban nature under a putative transition to a new geo‐environmental epoch.

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试图拯救世界的苍蝇：腐殖质地理和非人类生态

在北伦敦墓地发现一只罕见的苍蝇标志着我开始更广泛地反思城市生物多样性的价值和意义。本文使用不同的生态危害指数，以及对新唯物主义见解的批判性阅读，探讨了城市环境中腐木（腐木）无脊椎动物群落的文化、政治和科学意义。本文将城市生态学和后人文主义领域进行更密切的对话，以阐明在现有分析框架内尚未系统探索的城市自然方面。我们考虑了一系列相互交叉的世界，人类和非人类，作为在假定过渡到新的地理环境时代的情况下对城市自然的腐化维度的一瞥的一部分。