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  title info:
    title: Urban Ecology
    sub title: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature
  name:
    name part: Marzluff, John M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Shulenberger, Eric.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Endlicher, Wilfried.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Alberti, Marina.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bradley, Gordon.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Ryan, Clare.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Simon, Ute.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: ZumBrunnen, Craig.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 808 p. 149 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become more sustainable. It has deep roots in many disciplines including sociology, geography, urban planning, landscape architecture, engineering, economics, anthropology, climatology, public health, and ecology. Because of its interdisciplinary nature and unique focus on humans and natural systems, the term "urban ecology" has been used variously to describe the study of humans in cities, of nature in cities, and of the coupled relationships between humans and nature. Each of these research areas is contributing to our understanding of urban ecosystems and each must be understood to fully grasp the science of Urban Ecology. Therefore, in Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature, we introduce students and practitioners of urban ecology to its roots, bases, and prospects by way of a diverse collection of historical and modern foundational readings. The editors are urban ecologists from the United States, Italy, and Germany who together view these readings as a fair representation of the importance of both natural and social sciences to Urban Ecology. This book presents important papers in the field of Urban Ecology that both set the foundations for the discipline and to illustrate modern approaches, from a variety of perspectives and regions of the world. The editors do this by reprinting important publications, filling gaps in the published literature with a few targeted original works, and translating several key works originally published in German. The aim of this collection is to provide students, practitioners, and professionals with a rich background in some of the core facets of Urban Ecology.
  table of contents: Urbanization and Human Domination of Earth -- Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems -- Humans as the World’s Greatest Evolutionary Force -- Urbanization -- Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the use of “Urban” Between the Social and Natural Sciences -- Conceptual Foundations of Urban Ecology -- The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project -- On the Early History of Urban Ecology in Europe -- Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas -- Integrated Approaches to Long-Term Studies of Urban Ecological Systems -- Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems -- The Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Pedosphere -- Sealing of Soils -- Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn -- Streams in the Urban Landscape -- The Urban Climate – Basic and Applied Aspects -- Global Warming and the Urban Heat Island -- A Retrospective Assessment of Mortality from the London Smog Episode of 1952: The Role of Influenza and Pollution -- Heat Waves, Urban Climate and Human Health -- The Biosphere -- The City as a Subject for Ecological Research -- Ecosystem Processes Along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient -- House Sparrows Rapid Evolution of Races in North America -- On the Role of Alien Species in Urban Flora and Vegetation -- Socioeconomics Drive Urban Plant Diversity -- Fauna of the Big City – Estimating Species Richness and Abundance in Warsaw Poland -- Island Biogeography for an Urbanizing World How Extinction and Colonization May Determine Biological Diversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes -- A Long Term Survey of the Avifauna in an Urban Park -- Biodiversity in the Argentinean Rolling Pampa Ecoregion: Changes Caused by Agriculture and Urbanisation -- Does Differential Access to Protein Influence Differences in Timing of Breeding of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) in Suburban and Wildland Ha…
  note: edited by John M. Marzluff, Eric Shulenberger, Wilfried Endlicher, Marina Alberti, Gordon Bradley, Clare Ryan, Ute Simon, Craig ZumBrunnen.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Landscape ecology
  subject:
    topic: Urban ecology (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Urban Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Landscape Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: HT241
  classification: 577.56
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