One of the predominant ways in which our world is changing is through urbanization. As people migrate to cities, the subsequent conversion of natural habitat into impervious cover has implications for local and regional biodiversity. Global interest in urban agriculture has also increased with increasing urbanization: a contemporary renaissance in urban agriculture has transformed urban land into productive green spaces and habitats for biodiversity. Approximately 20% of today’s global food supply comes from urban agriculture, and urban food production relies heavily on ecosystem services provided by urban biodiversity. While we know much about local and landscape drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem services in rural agricultural systems, we are still elucidating the links between landscape features, local biodiversity, ecosystem services, and food production in urban systems. Urban agricultural systems are influenced by human and non-human interactions, thus understanding the ecology of these socio-ecological systems requires interdisciplinary approaches. As much of this work directly involves urban agriculture practitioners, an interdisciplinary approach that feeds research findings back into management practices can have advantageous ecological and social outcomes. This session aims to synthesize research findings, experiences and challenges of urban agriculture research with a focus on inter- and transdisciplinary studies. While urban ecologists have well catalogued the abundance and richness of arthropods, birds, and other organisms in urban agricultural systems, we explore next steps in research that highlight biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships and implications for sustainable urban agriculture management. This session brings together scientists utilizing a diverse combination of ecological and social methods to ask questions like: What are new approaches to study ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation in a changing city landscape? What experiences from urban field work help contextualize research results and outcomes? How do we take what we know about urban biodiversity and begin to inform management decisions to enhance food cultivation in the city? Further, we explore how scientists have successfully disseminated research to local communities around urban agriculture through unique strategies like citizen science programs and social media.