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Urban Naturalist Special Issue 1, 2018

Green Roofs and Urban Biodiversity

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General Acknowledgments	i
Introduction: “Looking up” to Green Roofs to Understand Urban Biodiversity—A Decade On J. Scott MacIvor, Olyssa Starry, Stephan Brenneisen, Nathalie Baumann, Gary Grant, Gyondover Kadas, Manfred Köhler, and Jeremy T. Lundholm	ii
A Global Comparison of Beetle Community Composition on Green Roofs and the Potential for Homogenization Olyssa Starry, Sydney Gonsalves, Kelly Ksiazek-Mikenas, J. Scott MacIvor, Maggie Gardner, Alexander Szallies, and Stephan Brenneisen	1
Developing Biodiverse Green Roofs for Japan: Arthropod and Colonizer Plant Diversity on Harappa and Biotope Roofs Ayako Nagase, Yoriyuki Yamada, Tadataka Aoki, and Masashi Nomura	16
Evaluating the Habitat-Template Approach Applied to Green Roofs Jeremy T. Lundholm and Emily A. Walker	39
If You Build It, Will They Come? Plant and Arthropod Diversity on Urban Green Roofs Over Time Kelly Ksiazek-Mikenas, John Herrmann, Sean B. Menke, and Manfred Köhler	52
Systematic Variation in Roof Spontaneous Vegetation: Residential “Low Rise” Versus Commercial “High Rise” Buildings Michael L. McKinney and Nicholas D. Sisco	73