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Urban ecology : an international perspective on the interaction between humans and nature /
Presents a comprehensive view of the urban ecosystem by introducing drivers, patterns, processes and effects of human settlement and the relationships between humans and other animals, plants, ecosystem processes, and abiotic conditions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Human domination of earth's ecosystems / Peter M. Vitousek [and others]
- Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force / Stephen R. Palumbi
- Urbanization / Brian J.L. Berry
- Urban ecology as an interdisciplinary field : differences in the use of "urban" between the social and natural sciences / Nancy E. McIntyre, K. Knowles-Yánez, and D. Hope
- Growth of the city : an introduction to a research project / Ernest W. Burgess
- On the early history of urban ecology in Europe / Herbert Sukopp
- Urban ecological systems : terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas / S.T.A. Pickett [and others]
- Integrated approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems / Nancy B. Grimm [and others]
- Integrating humans into ecology : opportunities and challenges for studying urban ecosystems / Marina Alberti [and others]
- Sealing of soils / Gerd Wessolek
- Producing and consuming chemicals : the moral economy of the American lawn / Paul Robbins, Julie T. Sharp
- Streams in the urban landscape / Michael J. Paul and Judy L. Meyer
- Urban climate-- basic and applied aspects / Wilhelm Kuttler
- Global warming and the urban heat island / Maria João Alcoforado and Henrique Andrade
- Retrospective assessment of morality from the London smog episode of 1952 : the role of influenza and pollution / Micheile L. Bell, Devra L. Davis, and Tony Fletcher
- Heat waves, urban climate and human health / Wilfried Endlicher [and others]
- City as a subject for ecological research / Herbert Sukopp
- Ecosystem processes along an urban-to-rural gradient / Mark J. McDonnell [and others]
- House sparrows : rapid evolution of races in North America / Richard F. Johnston, Robert K. Selander
- On the role of alien species in urban flora and vegetation / Ingo Kowarik
- Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity / Diane Hope [and others]
- Fauna of the big city-- estimating species richness and abundance in Warsaw, Poland / Maciej Luniak
- Island biogeography for an urbanizing world : how extinction and colonization may determine biological diversity in human-dominated landscapes / John M. Marzluff
- Long-term survey of the avifauna in an urban park / Michael Abs and Frank Bergen
- Biodiversity in the Argentinean Rolling Pampa ecoregion : changes caused by agriculture and urbanisation / Ana M. Faggi [and others]
- Does differential access to protein influence differences in timing of breeding of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) in suburban and wildland habitats? / Stephan J. Schoech and Reed Bowman
- Creating a homogeneous avifauna / Robert B. Blair
- Towards a mechanistic understanding of urbanization's impact on fish / Christian Wolter
- Bat activity in an urban landscape : patterns at the landscape and microhabitat scale / Stanley D. Gehrt and James E. Chelsvig
- Urbanization and spider diversity : influences of human modification of habitat structure and productivity / E. Shochat [and others]
- Social science concepts and frameworks for understanding urban ecosystems / Carolyn Harrison and Jacquie Burgess
- Iceberg and the Titanic : human economic behavior in ecological models / Jane V. Hall
- Forecasting demand for urban land / Paul Waddell and Terry Moore
- Characteristics, causes, and effects of sprawl : a literature review / Reid H. Ewing
- Urban ecological footprints : why cities cannot be sustainable-- and why they are a key to sustainability / William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel
- Health, supportive environments, and the reasonable person model / Stephen Kaplan, Rachel Kaplan
- Relationship between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity, and morbidity / Reid Ewing [and others]
- Megacities as global risk areas / Frauke Kraas
- Why is understanding urban ecosystems important to people concerned about environmental justice? / Bunyan Bryant and John Callewaert
- Struggle to govern the commons / Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom, Paul C. Stern
- Modeling the urban ecosystem : a conceptual framework / M. Alberti
- Scientific, institutional, and individual constraints on restoring Puget Sound rivers / Clare M. Ryan and Sara M. Jensen
- Toward ecosystem management : shifts in the core and the context of urban forest ecology / Rowan A. Rowntree
- What is the form of a city, and how is it made? / Kevin A. Lynch
- What should an ideal city look like from an ecological view? : ecological demands on the future city / Ruediger Wittig [and others]
- Land use planning and wildlife maintenance : guidelines for conserving wildlife in an urban landscape / Michael E. Soulé
- Terrestrial nature reserve design at the urban/rural interface / Craig L. Shafer
- Restoration of fragmented landscapes for the conservation of birds : a general framework and specific recommendations for urbanizing landscapes / John M. Marzluzz, Kern Ewing
- Steps involved in designing conservation subdivisions : a straightforward approach / Randall G. Arendt
- Beyond greenbelts and zoning : a new planning concept for the environment of Asian mega-cities / Makoto Yokohari [and others].