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Increasing the number of native mature trees preserved in new urban housing developments is an effective way to increase bird diversity, according to this study in Queensland, Australia. Streets that retained mature...

Barth, Benjamin James, Sean Ian FitzGibbon, and Robbie Stuart Wilson. (2015). New urban developments that retain more remnant trees have greater bird diversity. Landscape and Urban Planning, 136, 122-129.

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A study in Melbourne, Australia compared invertebrate species richness and diversity in streetside bioretention swales, garden beds, and lawn-type planting strips. Bioretention swales contained the greatest species...

Kazemi, Fatemeh, Simon Beecham, and Joan Gibbs. (2009). Streetscale bioretention basins in Melbourne and their effect on local biodiversity. Ecological Engineering, 35(10), 1454-1465.