Part I: Introduction -- The rural-urban interface - An interdisciplinary research approach to urbanisation processes around the Indian megacity Bengaluru -- Part II: Changing patterns of land use and agriculture -- Temporal dynamics of land use change and spatial urbanization indices in the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru over the past three decades -- Urbanization effects on agricultural production systems across the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru -- Changes in land use pattern vis-a-vis urbanization and credit across the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru -- Dairy Production in an urbanizing environment: A social-ecological approach to understand the case of Bengaluru -- Capital formation across the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru North: An economic analysis -- Part III: Resource use, efficiencies and tradeoffs in crop and livestock production -- Crop production under urbanisation: An experimental approach to understand and model agricultural intensification -- Effects of soil management practices on soil physical properties and water cycle in a multifactorial field experiment -- Biomass estimation of vegetables - Can remote sensing be a tool for it?- Dairy farms in an urbanising environment: Tradeoffs between productivity and animal welfare -- Part IV: Food systems as outcomes and drivers of rural-urban transitions -- Crop diversity, dietary diversity and nutritional intake: Evidence on inter-linkages across rural-urban interface of Bengaluru -- Food security and factors influencing food and calorie intake across rural-urban interface of Bengaluru -- Nutritional status of households and individuals in the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru -- Nutritional status of women across rural-urban interface of Bengaluru -- "Homemade food is always healthy": The ambivalence of a traditionalisation of diets in Bengaluru -- Part V: Biodiversity and ecosystem functions under rural-urban transitions -- Tree species diversity in the Southern transect across the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru -- Biodiversity of birds along the rural-urban interface of the Indian megacity Bengaluru -- Bee diversity in the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru and scope for pollinator-integrated urban agriculture -- Dynamics of field margin vegetation with changing agricultural landscape across a rural-urban interface -- Part VI: Conclusion. Editorial: Dynamics in the rural-urban interface of an Indian megacity - Synopsis and outlook.