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Thomas Lippe, a lawyer for the two nonprofit groups that brought the lawsuit against U.C.

Thomas Lippe, attorney for the two nonprofit groups that brought the lawsuit against UC, could not be immediately reached for comment.

In 2016 Kowarik and his colleagues, including Moritz von der Lippe, Buchholz, and Grossmann, launched a project called CityScapeLab Berlin to do just that.

But such unpromising places often harbored among the rarest plants and beetles, von der Lippe says.

The researchers discovered that native plants, wild bees, and ground beetles were at least as diverse in highly urban sites as those located elsewhere, von der Lippe says—including many red-listed species.