CE3C – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental
Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Açores,
Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo,
Azores, Portugal
Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences,
University of L'Aquila, Via Vetoio, Coppito, 67100 L'Aquila,
Italy
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Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization is considered a prominent threat to biodiversity. Urban development creates a mosaic of natural fragments which can be occupied by organisms able to survive in small spaces. These fragments are a set of habitat islands interspersed in a "sea" of built up areas. Hypotheses developed in the field of island biogeography can be used to preserve the insect communities inhabiting urban green spaces.
Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization is considered a prominent threat to biodiversity....