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Chapter 1. Introduction: Urban ecology in the Global South -- Part 1: Urbanisation and urban landscapes -- Chapter 2. Urbanisation in the Global South -- Chapter 3. Urban landscape history -- Chapter 4. Urban social ecology -- Part II: Urban Green Infrastructure & Biodiversity -- Chapter 5. Urban green infrastructure -- Chapter 6. Plant diversity -- Chapter 7. Animal diversity -- Part III: Ecosystem services -- Chapter 8. Urban provisioning ecosystem services -- Chapter 9. Urban regulating ecosystem services -- Chapter 10. Urban cultural ecosystem services -- Chapter 11. Urban ecosystem disservices -- Chapter 12. Urban agriculture -- Part IV: Planning and management -- Chapter 13. Promoting urban resilience and seeking sustainability -- Chapter 14. Social and ecological connectivity -- Chapter 15. Ecological planning and design -- Chapter 16. Urban governance of and for urban green and blue infrastructure -- Conclusion: (Re)imagining towns and cities of the future Global South.

Cities represent considerable opportunities for forwarding global biodiversity and sustainability goals. We developed key attributes for conserving biodiversity and for ecosystem services that should be included in urban-planning documents and reviewed 135 plans from 40 cities globally. The most common attributes in city plans were goals for habitat conservation, air and water quality, cultural ecosystem services, and ecological connectivity. Few plans included quantitative targets. This lack of measurable targets may render plans unsuccessful for an actionable approach to local biodiversity conservation. Although most cities include both biodiversity and ecosystem services, each city tends to focus on one or the other. Comprehensive planning for biodiversity should include the full range of attributes identified, but few cities do this, and the majority that do are mandated by local, regional, or federal governments to plan specifically for biodiversity conservation. This research provides planning recommendations for protecting urban biodiversity based on ecological knowledge