《城市生態系統》是一份國際期刊，致力于科學研究城市環境以及城市環境中社會經濟和生態結構與過程之間的關系。該雜志的范圍很廣，包括城市生態系統和相關郊區和農村環境之間的相互作用。它們的貢獻可能涉及一系列具體的學科領域，因為它們可能適用于城市環境:生物多樣性、生物地球化學、保護生物學、野生動物和漁業管理、生態系統生態學、生態系統服務、環境化學、水文、風景園林、氣象和氣候、政策、人口生物學、社會和人類生態學、土壤科學和城市規劃。

Urban Ecosystems is an international journal devoted to scientific investigations of urban environments and the relationships between socioeconomic and ecological structures and processes in urban environments. The scope of the journal is broad, including interactions between urban ecosystems and associated suburban and rural environments. Contributions may span a range of specific subject areas as they may apply to urban environments: biodiversity, biogeochemistry, conservation biology, wildlife and fisheries management, ecosystem ecology, ecosystem services, environmental chemistry, hydrology, landscape architecture, meteorology and climate, policy, population biology, social and human ecology, soil science, and urban planning.