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Because of their isolation, communities of urban green spaces can be investigated using hypotheses developed in island biogeography. The \"equilibrium theory of island biogeography\"\u00a0(ETIB) allows the formulation of some predictions about how various characteristics of green spaces\u00a0(such as their area, shape, level of isolation, environmental heterogeneity, age) should influence species richness. Many studies found support for ETIB predictions, but results varied considerably according to the species' sensitivity to patch size, matrix characteristics, and history of the city. In some cases ETIB predictions were falsified. These contrasting results warn against making generalizations on conservation strategies only based on ETIB models. 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