Dr. Sonja Knapp completed her doctoral thesis at the Department of Community Ecology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Halle and at the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Diversity at Frankfurt University, Germany.

• General Introduction.- Urbanization Causes Shifts of Species’ Trait State Frequencies – a Large Scale Analysis.- Does Urbanization Cause Shifts of Species’ Trait State Frequencies? – A Small Scale Analysis.- How Species Traits and Affinity to Urban Land Use Control Plant Species Frequency.- Changes in the Functional Composition of a Central European Urban Flora over Three Centuries.- Challenging Urban Species Diversity: Contrasting Phylogenetic Patterns across Plant Functional Groups in Germany.

Dr. Sonja Knapp completed her doctoral thesis at the Department of Community Ecology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Halle and at the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Diversity at Frankfurt University, Germany.

• General Introduction.- Urbanization Causes Shifts of Species’ Trait State Frequencies – a Large Scale Analysis.- Does Urbanization Cause Shifts of Species’ Trait State Frequencies? – A Small Scale Analysis.- How Species Traits and Affinity to Urban Land Use Control Plant Species Frequency.- Changes in the Functional Composition of a Central European Urban Flora over Three Centuries.- Challenging Urban Species Diversity: Contrasting Phylogenetic Patterns across Plant Functional Groups in Germany.

Dr. Sonja Knapp completed her doctoral thesis at the Department of Community Ecology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Halle and at the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Diversity at Frankfurt University, Germany.

• General Introduction.- Urbanization Causes Shifts of Species’ Trait State Frequencies – a Large Scale Analysis.- Does Urbanization Cause Shifts of Species’ Trait State Frequencies? – A Small Scale Analysis.- How Species Traits and Affinity to Urban Land Use Control Plant Species Frequency.- Changes in the Functional Composition of a Central European Urban Flora over Three Centuries.- Challenging Urban Species Diversity: Contrasting Phylogenetic Patterns across Plant Functional Groups in Germany.