List of works - Ian MacGregor-Fors

A Novel Approach for the Assessment of Cities through Ecosystem Integrity

scientific article published on 21 December 2021

A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis

scientific article

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems

scientific article

A more sustainable urban future calls for action: the city of Lahti as European Green Capital 2021

scientific article published in 2021

Artificial nest predation along a Neotropical urban gradient

Avian community responses to restoration efforts in a complex volcanic landscape

article

Avian haemosporidian parasites in an urban forest and their relationship to bird size and abundance

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Current distribution and predicted geographic expansion of the Rufous-backed Robin in Mexico: a fading endemism?

scientific article published in 2010

Biocultural Species Enhancement in the Archaeological Site of Tzintzuntzan, the “Place of Hummingbirds”

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Bird community shifts related to different forest restoration efforts: A case study from a managed habitat matrix in Mexico

scientific article published in 2010

Bird-Community Shifts in Relation to Wind Farms: A Case Study Comparing a Wind Farm, Croplands, and Secondary Forests in Southern Mexico

scientific article published in 2012

Birds at the urban fringe: avian community shifts in different peri-urban ecotones of a megacity

scientific article published in 2014

Birds of a neotropical green city: an up-to-date review of the avifauna of the city of Xalapa with additional unpublished records

article by Fernando González-García et al published 2 May 2014 in Urban Ecosystems

Butterflies in the city: a review of urban diurnal Lepidoptera

article

COVID-19 most vulnerable Mexican cities lack the public health infrastructure to face the pandemic: a new temporally-explicit model

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Cities and pandemics: urban areas are ground zero for the transmission of emerging human infectious diseases

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

City “Green” Contributions: The Role of Urban Greenspaces as Reservoirs for Biodiversity

Contrasting diversity values: statistical inferences based on overlapping confidence intervals

scientific article

Density and habitat associations of the Altamira Yellowthroat Geothlypis flavovelata in Veracruz, Mexico: an endemic vulnerable species

Does size really matter? Species-area relationships in human settlements

scientific article published in 2010

Drivers of the structure of plant-hummingbird interaction networks at multiple temporal scales

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Dusting-off the file: A review of knowledge on urban ornithology in Latin America

article

Fading from the forest: Bird community shifts related to urban park site-specific and landscape traits

Functional-group approach with scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): a low-cost alternative for monitoring biodiversity in El Salvador ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 September 2022

Global Patterns and Drivers of Urban Bird Diversity

Got Dung? Resource Selection by Dung Beetles in Neotropical Forest Fragments and Cattle Pastures.

scientific article

Gray vs. green urbanization: Relative importance of urban features for urban bird communities

article by Ian MacGregor-Fors & Jorge E. Schondube published June 2011 in Basic and Applied Ecology

How Are Oaks Distributed in the Neotropics? A Perspective from Species Turnover, Areas of Endemism, and Climatic Niches

article published in 2015

How Stressed are Birds in an Urbanizing Landscape? Relationships between the Physiology of Birds and Three Levels of Habitat Alteration

scientific article published in 2013

How do people perceive urban trees? Assessing likes and dislikes in relation to the trees of a city

How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: redefining ‘peri-urban’ areas

article published in 2010

Keys to the city: an integrative conceptual framework on avian urban filtering

scientific article published in 2022

Living in the big city: Effects of urban land-use on bird community structure, diversity, and composition

article

Migrating to the City: Responses of Neotropical Migrant Bird Communities to Urbanization

article

Misconceptions or misunderstandings? On the standardization of basic terms and definitions in urban ecology

article published in 2011

Mismatching streetscapes: Woody plant composition across a Neotropical city

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Multi-taxonomic diversity patterns in a neotropical green city: a rapid biological assessment

Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future

scientific article published in 2023

Non-Exotic Invasion of Great-Tailed GracklesQuiscalus mexicanusin a Tropical Dry Forest Reserve

scientific article

On a Tightrope: Use of Open Sky Urban Telephone Wires by Azure-crowned Hummingbirds (Amazilia cyanocephala) for Nesting

article by Juan F. Escobar-Ibáñez & Ian MacGregor-Fors published June 2015 in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

On the North American invasion of the House Sparrow and its absence in the Yucatan Peninsula

scientific article

Parasites in space and time: a case study of haemosporidian spatiotemporal prevalence in urban birds

scientific article published on 20 January 2019

Peeking into the past to plan the future: Assessing bird species richness in a neotropical city

Pretty, but dangerous! Records of Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) in Mexico and their possible invasion effects

scientific article published in 2011

Relation between habitat attributes and bird richness in a western Mexico suburb

Relationship between the presence of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and Neotropical bird community structure and diversity

article by Ian MacGregor-Fors et al published 29 January 2009 in Biological Invasions

Revisiting 'rural'

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Scavenger removal: Bird and bat carcass persistence in a tropical wind farm

scientific article published in 2012

Shopping for Ecological Indices? On the Use of Incidence-Based Species Compositional Similarity Measures

scientific article published in 2022

Space invaders: House Sparrow densities along three urban-agricultural landscapes

article by Ian MacGregor-Fors et al published 2017 in Avian Conservation and Ecology

Spatiotemporal variation of mosquito diversity (Diptera: Culicidae) at places with different land-use types within a neotropical montane cloud forest matrix.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Spreading the Word: The Ecology of Urban Birds Outside the United States, Canada, and Western Europe

article

Stress responses of the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) to different urban land uses

article

Sunrise in the city: disentangling drivers of the avian dawn chorus onset in urban greenspaces

Tales of urban conservation: Eumaeus butterflies and their threatened cycad hostplants

article by Lorena Ramírez-Restrepo et al published 27 September 2016 in Urban Ecosystems

Tama-risk? Avian responses to the invasion of saltcedars (Tamarix ramosissima) in Sonora, Mexico

article

The ecological future of cities

scientific article

The invisible enemy: Understanding bird‐window strikes through citizen science in a focal city

scientific article published in 2021

The phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional breeding bird assemblages is reduced and constricted through urbanization

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

The queen of the island: On the density and distribution of the Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) in Cozumel

scientific article published on 11 August 2021

The role of birds in the acacia—ant interaction: New insights from nest predation

scientific article published in 2014

The urban contrast: A nationwide assessment of avian diversity in Mexican cities

scientific article published on 22 August 2020

Trees and the City: Diversity and Composition along a Neotropical Gradient of Urbanization

article

Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

scientific article published on 21 February 2022

Urban bird ecologists cite more publications from the Global North; why?

scientific article published in 2020

Urban croaking: diversity and distribution of anurans in a neotropical city

Urban predation: a case study assessing artificial nest survival in a neotropical city

Use of Tropical Dry Forests and Agricultural Areas by Neotropical Bird Communities

article published in 2010

Warm-temperate, immense, and sprawling: plant diversity drivers in urban Beijing, China

article

Winter thriving: on the role of a boreal city on bird communities

scientific article published in 2022

List of works by Ian MacGregor-Fors

A Novel Approach for the Assessment of Cities through Ecosystem Integrity

A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems

A more sustainable urban future calls for action: the city of Lahti as European Green Capital 2021

Artificial nest predation along a Neotropical urban gradient

Avian community responses to restoration efforts in a complex volcanic landscape

Avian haemosporidian parasites in an urban forest and their relationship to bird size and abundance

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Current distribution and predicted geographic expansion of the Rufous-backed Robin in Mexico: a fading endemism?

Biocultural Species Enhancement in the Archaeological Site of Tzintzuntzan, the “Place of Hummingbirds”

Bird community shifts related to different forest restoration efforts: A case study from a managed habitat matrix in Mexico

Bird-Community Shifts in Relation to Wind Farms: A Case Study Comparing a Wind Farm, Croplands, and Secondary Forests in Southern Mexico

Birds at the urban fringe: avian community shifts in different peri-urban ecotones of a megacity

Birds of a neotropical green city: an up-to-date review of the avifauna of the city of Xalapa with additional unpublished records

Butterflies in the city: a review of urban diurnal Lepidoptera

COVID-19 most vulnerable Mexican cities lack the public health infrastructure to face the pandemic: a new temporally-explicit model

Cities and pandemics: urban areas are ground zero for the transmission of emerging human infectious diseases

City “Green” Contributions: The Role of Urban Greenspaces as Reservoirs for Biodiversity

Contrasting diversity values: statistical inferences based on overlapping confidence intervals

Density and habitat associations of the Altamira Yellowthroat Geothlypis flavovelata in Veracruz, Mexico: an endemic vulnerable species

Does size really matter? Species-area relationships in human settlements

Drivers of the structure of plant-hummingbird interaction networks at multiple temporal scales

Dusting-off the file: A review of knowledge on urban ornithology in Latin America

Fading from the forest: Bird community shifts related to urban park site-specific and landscape traits

Functional-group approach with scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): a low-cost alternative for monitoring biodiversity in El Salvador ⬇️

Global Patterns and Drivers of Urban Bird Diversity

Got Dung? Resource Selection by Dung Beetles in Neotropical Forest Fragments and Cattle Pastures.

Gray vs. green urbanization: Relative importance of urban features for urban bird communities

How Are Oaks Distributed in the Neotropics? A Perspective from Species Turnover, Areas of Endemism, and Climatic Niches

How Stressed are Birds in an Urbanizing Landscape? Relationships between the Physiology of Birds and Three Levels of Habitat Alteration

How do people perceive urban trees? Assessing likes and dislikes in relation to the trees of a city

How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: redefining ‘peri-urban’ areas

Keys to the city: an integrative conceptual framework on avian urban filtering

Living in the big city: Effects of urban land-use on bird community structure, diversity, and composition

Migrating to the City: Responses of Neotropical Migrant Bird Communities to Urbanization

Misconceptions or misunderstandings? On the standardization of basic terms and definitions in urban ecology

Mismatching streetscapes: Woody plant composition across a Neotropical city

Multi-taxonomic diversity patterns in a neotropical green city: a rapid biological assessment

Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future

Non-Exotic Invasion of Great-Tailed GracklesQuiscalus mexicanusin a Tropical Dry Forest Reserve

On a Tightrope: Use of Open Sky Urban Telephone Wires by Azure-crowned Hummingbirds (Amazilia cyanocephala) for Nesting

On the North American invasion of the House Sparrow and its absence in the Yucatan Peninsula

Parasites in space and time: a case study of haemosporidian spatiotemporal prevalence in urban birds

Peeking into the past to plan the future: Assessing bird species richness in a neotropical city

Pretty, but dangerous! Records of Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) in Mexico and their possible invasion effects

Relation between habitat attributes and bird richness in a western Mexico suburb

Relationship between the presence of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and Neotropical bird community structure and diversity

Revisiting 'rural'

Scavenger removal: Bird and bat carcass persistence in a tropical wind farm

Shopping for Ecological Indices? On the Use of Incidence-Based Species Compositional Similarity Measures

Space invaders: House Sparrow densities along three urban-agricultural landscapes

Spatiotemporal variation of mosquito diversity (Diptera: Culicidae) at places with different land-use types within a neotropical montane cloud forest matrix.

Spreading the Word: The Ecology of Urban Birds Outside the United States, Canada, and Western Europe

Stress responses of the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) to different urban land uses

Sunrise in the city: disentangling drivers of the avian dawn chorus onset in urban greenspaces

Tales of urban conservation: Eumaeus butterflies and their threatened cycad hostplants

Tama-risk? Avian responses to the invasion of saltcedars (Tamarix ramosissima) in Sonora, Mexico

The ecological future of cities

The invisible enemy: Understanding bird‐window strikes through citizen science in a focal city

The phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional breeding bird assemblages is reduced and constricted through urbanization

The queen of the island: On the density and distribution of the Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) in Cozumel

The role of birds in the acacia—ant interaction: New insights from nest predation

The urban contrast: A nationwide assessment of avian diversity in Mexican cities

Trees and the City: Diversity and Composition along a Neotropical Gradient of Urbanization

Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

Urban bird ecologists cite more publications from the Global North; why?

Urban croaking: diversity and distribution of anurans in a neotropical city

Urban predation: a case study assessing artificial nest survival in a neotropical city

Use of Tropical Dry Forests and Agricultural Areas by Neotropical Bird Communities

Warm-temperate, immense, and sprawling: plant diversity drivers in urban Beijing, China

Winter thriving: on the role of a boreal city on bird communities