Alessandro Ossola is a Research Coordinator within the Centre for Smart Green Cities at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia and a former US National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine NRC Associate within the US Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Jari Niemelä is Professor of Urban Ecology and Director of the Helsinki Institue for Sustainability Science, Department of Environmental Sciences, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

1. Bringing Urban Biodiversity Research into Practice 2. Soil as a foundation to urban biodiversity 3. Urban biodiversity and ecosystem services 4. Planning for protection: Promoting pest suppressing urban landscapes through habitat management 5. Urban agriculture: an opportunity for biodiversity and food provision in urban landscapes 6. Urban biological invasions: when vertebrates come to town 7. Management of plant diversity in urban green spaces 8. Managing biodiversity through social values and preferences 9. Biodiversity and psychological wellbeing 10. Governance perspectives on urban biodiversity 11. Managing urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation: An African perspective 12. Urban green infrastructures and ecological networks for urban biodiversity conservation 13. Designing nature in cities to safeguard meaningful experiences of biodiversity in an urbanizing world 14. Biodiversity¿friendly designs in cities and towns: towards a global biodiversinesque style 15. Integrating urban biodiversity mapping, citizen science and technology