Ecology of Cities and Towns

A Comparative Approach
Herausgeber: Breuste, Jurgen H.; Mcdonnell, Mark J.; Hahs, Amy K.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assesses the current status, and future challenges and opportunities, of the ecological study, design and management of cities and towns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 746
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1575g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861120
• ISBN-10: 0521861128
• Artikelnr.: 25690810

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: scope of the book and the need for developing a
comparative approach to the ecological study of cities and towns; Part I.
Opportunities and Challenges of Conducting Comparative Studies: 2.
Comparative urban ecology: challenges and possibilities; 3. Frameworks for
urban ecosystem studies: gradients, patch dynamics and the human ecosystem
in the New York metropolitan area and Baltimore, USA; 4. Comparative
effects of urbanisation in marine and terrestrial habitats; 5. Comparative
ecology of cities and towns: past, present and future; 6. Comparative urban
ecological research in developing countries; 7. Using models to compare the
ecology of cities; Part II. Ecological Studies of Cities and Towns; 8.
Responses of faunal assemblages to urbanisation: global research paradigms
and an avian case study; 9. Effect of urban structures on diversity of
marine species; 10. Comparative studies of terrestrial vertebrates in urban
areas; 11. The ecology of roads in urban and urbanising landscapes; 12.
Spatial pattern and process in urban animal communities; 13. Invertebrate
biodiversity in urban landscapes: assessing remnant habitat and its
restoration; 14. Arthropods in urban ecosystems: community patterns as
functions of anthropogenic land use; 15. Light pollution and the impact of
artificial night lighting on insects; 16. A comparison of vegetation cover
in Beijing and Shanghai: a remote sensing approach; 17. Vegetation
composition and structure of forest patches along urban-to-rural gradients;
18. Environmental, social and spatial determinants of urban arboreal
character in Auckland, New Zealand; 19. Carbon and nitrogen cycling in
soils of remnant forests along urban-rural gradients: case studies in the
New York metropolitan area and Louisville, Kentucky; 20. Investigative
approaches of urban biogeochemical cycles: New York metropolitan area and
Baltimore as case studies; Part III. Integrating Science with Management
and Planning: 21. Structural analysis of urban landscapes for landscape
management in German cities; 22. Preservation of original natural
vegetation in urban areas: an overview; 23. Homogeneity of urban biotopes
and similarity of landscape design language in former colonial cities; 24.
Tools to assess human impact on biotope resilience and biodiversity in
urban planning: examples from Stockholm, Sweden; 25. Landscape ecological
analysis and assessment in an urbanising environment; 26. Applying
landscape ecological principles to a fascinating landscape: the city; 27. A
trans-disciplinary research approach providing a platform for improved
urban design, quality of life and biodiverse urban ecosystems; 28. Pattern:
process metaphors for metropolitan landscapes; 29. Valuing urban wetlands:
modification, preservation and restoration; Part IV. Comments and
Synthesis: 30. What is the main object of urban ecology? Determining
demarcation using the example of research into urban flora; 31. How to
conduct comparative urban ecological research; 32. Ecological scientific
knowledge in urban and land-use planning; 33. Envisioning the comparative
possible: a critique; 34. Towards a comparative ecology of cities and
towns; 35. A comparative ecology of cities and towns: synthesis of
opportunities and limitations.