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The world is becoming an increasingly urban planet with 68% of the global population expected to live in cities by 2050 and urban land cover expected to increase by 40%. This urban expansion brings with it a host of environmental and health consequences such as the urban heat is…

In human systems, changes in climate, land use, culture, and human population pressure affect both the social and ecological landscapes simultaneously, and the same processes that lead to loss of wild biodiversity at species and genetic scales can drive the loss of agricultural …