Flower power in the city: Replacing roadside shrubs by wildflower meadows increases insect numbers and reduces maintenance costs

• Karsten Mody ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Karsten.Mody@hs-gm.de

  Current address: Department of Applied Ecology, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany

  Affiliation Ecological Networks, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9251-0803

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• Doris Lerch,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecological Networks, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Ann-Kathrin Müller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecological Networks, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Nadja K. Simons,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecological Networks, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-7050

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• Nico Blüthgen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecological Networks, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Matthias Harnisch

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Magistrat der Stadt Riedstadt, Riedstadt, Germany

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