Alberti, Marina
Urban Ecology
Section I. Urbanization and Human Domination of Earth
1. Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems
Peter M. Vitousek, Harold A. Mooney, Jane Lubchenco, Jerry M. Melillo
2. Humans as the World’s Greatest Evolutionary Force
Stephen R. Palumbi
3. Urbanization
Brian J.L. Berry
4. Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the use of “Urban” Between the Social and Natural Sciences
Nancy E. McIntyre, K. Knowles-Yánez, D. Hope
Section II. Conceptual Foundations of Urban Ecology
5. The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project
Ernest W. Burgess
6. On the Early History of Urban Ecology in Europe
Herbert Sukopp
7. Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas
S.T.A. Pickett, M.L. Cadenasso, J.M. Grove, C.H. Nilon, R.V. Pouyat, W.C. Zipperer, R. Costanza
8. Integrated Approaches to Long-Term Studies of Urban Ecological Systems
Nancy B. Grimm, J. Morgan Grove, Steward T.A. Pickett, Charles L. Redman
9. Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems
Marina Alberti, John M. Marzluff, Eric Shulenberger, Gordon Bradley, Clare Ryan, Craig Zumbrunnen
Section III. The Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Pedosphere
10. Sealing of Soils
Gerd Wessolek
11. Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn
Paul Robbins, Julie T. Sharp
12. Streams in the Urban Landscape
Michael J. Paul, Judy L. Meyer
13. The Urban Climate – Basic and Applied Aspects
Wilhelm Kuttler
14. Global Warming and the Urban Heat Island
Maria João Alcoforado, Henrique Andrade
15. A Retrospective Assessment of Mortality from the London Smog Episode of 1952: The Role of Influenza and Pollution
Micheile L. Bell, Devra L. Davis, Tony Fletcher
16. Heat Waves, Urban Climate and Human Health
Wilfried Endlicher, Gerd Jendritzky, Joachim Fischer, Jens-Peter Redlich
Section IV. The Biosphere
17. The City as a Subject for Ecological Research
Herbert Sukopp
18. Ecosystem Processes Along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient
Mark J. McDonnell, Steward T.A. Pickett, Peter Groffman, Patrick Bohlen, Richard V. Pouyat, Wayne C. Zipperer, Robert W. Parmelee, Margaret M. Carreiro, Kimberly Medley
19. House Sparrows Rapid Evolution of Races in North America
Richard F. Johnston, Robert K. Selander
20. On the Role of Alien Species in Urban Flora and Vegetation
Ingo Kowarik
21. Socioeconomics Drive Urban Plant Diversity
Diane Hope, Corinna Gries, Weixing Zhu, William F. Fagan, Charles L. Redman, Nancy B. Grimm, Amy L. Nelson, Chris Martin, Ann Kinzig
22. Fauna of the Big City – Estimating Species Richness and Abundance in Warsaw Poland
Maciej Luniak
23. Island Biogeography for an Urbanizing World How Extinction and Colonization May Determine Biological Diversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes
John M. Marzluff
24. A Long Term Survey of the Avifauna in an Urban Park
Michael Abs, Frank Bergen
25. Biodiversity in the Argentinean Rolling Pampa Ecoregion: Changes Caused by Agriculture and Urbanisation
Ana M. Faggi, Kerstin Krellenberg, Roberto Castro, Mirta Arriaga, Wilfried Endlicher
26. Does Differential Access to Protein Influence Differences in Timing of Breeding of Florida Scrub-Jays
Stephan J. Schoech, Reed Bowman
27. Creating a Homogeneous Avifauna
Robert B. Blair
28. Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Urbanization’s Impacts on Fish
Michael Abs Frank Bergen
29. Bat Activity in an Urban Landscape: Patterns at the Landscape and Microhabitat Scale
Stanley D. Gehrt, James E. Chelsvig
30. Urbanization and Spider Diversity: Influences of Human Modification of Habitat Structure and Productivity
E. Shochat, W.L. Stefanov, M.E.A. Whitehouse, S.H. Faeth
Section V. The Anthroposphere: Human Dimensions
31. Social Science Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding Urban Ecosystems
Carolyn Harrison, Jacquie Burgess
32. The Iceberg and the Titanic: Human Economic Behavior in Ecological Models
Jane V. Hall
33. Forecasting Demand for Urban Land
Paul Waddell, Terry Moore
34. Characteristics, Causes, and Effects of Sprawl: A Literature Review
Reid H. Ewing
35. Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot be Sustainable—and Why They are a Key to Sustainability
William Rees, Mathis Wackernagel
36. Health, Supportive Environments, and the Reasonable Person Model
Stephen Kaplan, Rachel Kaplan
37. Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity
Reid Ewing, Tom Schmid, Richard Killingsworth, Amy Zlot, Stephen Raudenbush
38. Megacities as Global Risk Areas
Frauke Kraas
39. Why Is Understanding Urban Ecosystems Important to People Concerned About Environmental Justice?
Bunyan Bryant, John Callewaert
Section VI. The Anthroposphere: Planning and Policy
40. The Struggle to Govern the Commons
Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom, Paul C. Stern
41. Modeling the Urban Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework
M. Alberti
42. Scientific, Institutional, and Individual Constraints on Restoring Puget Sound Rivers
Clare M. Ryan, Sara M. Jensen
43. Toward Ecosystem Management: Shifts in the Core and the Context of Urban Forest Ecology
Rowan A. Rowntree
44. What Is the Form of a City, and How Is It Made?
Kevin A. Lynch
45. What Should an Ideal City Look Like from an Ecological View? – Ecological Demands on the Future City
Ruediger Wittig, Juergen Breuste, Lothar Finke, Michael Kleyer, Franz Rebele, Konrad Reidl, Wolfgang Schulte, Peter Werner
46. Land Use Planning and Wildlife Maintenance
Michael E. Soulé
47. Terrestrial Nature Reserve Design at the Urban/Rural Interface
Craig L. Shafer
48. Restoration of Fragmented Landscapes for the Conservation of Birds: A General Framework and Specific Recommendations for Urbanizing Landscapes
John M. Marzluff, Kern Ewing
49. Steps Involved in Designing Conservation Subdivisions: A Straightforward Approach
Randall G. Arendt
50. Beyond Greenbelts and Zoning: A New Planning Concept for the Environment of Asian Mega-Cities
Makoto Yokohari, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Takashi Watanabe, Shigehiro Yokota
Avainsanat: Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Ecology, Biodiversity, Landscape Ecology, Nature Conservation
- Tekijä(t)
- Alberti, Marina
- Bradley, Gordon
- Endlicher, Wilfried
- Marzluff, John M.
- Ryan, Clare
- Shulenberger, Eric
- Simon, Ute
- ZumBrunnen, Craig
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