Ecology of Cities and Towns: A Comparative Approach

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511609763

The unprecedented growth of cities and towns around the world, coupled with the unknown effects of global change, has created an urgent need to increase ecological understanding of human settlements, in order to develop inhabitable, sustainable cities and towns in the future. Although there is a wealth of knowledge regarding the understanding of human organisation and behaviour, there is comparably little information available regarding the ecology of cities and towns. This book brings together leading scientists, landscape designers and planners from developed and developing countries around the world, to explore how urban ecological research has been undertaken to date, what has been learnt, where there are gaps in knowledge, and what the future challenges and opportunities are.

"This important collection argues for a new approcah to ecology, redefining ecology in cities as an ecology of cities, in which the built environment presents a unique set of conditions, associations, and ecosystems....This collection works best as a statement and perhaps predictor of a novel conceptual framework that connects architecture, planning, sociology, and policy with the hard sciences that characterize classical ecology....Recommended."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Preface
pp xix-xxii
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1 - Introduction: Scope of the book and need for developing a comparative approach to the ecological study of cities and towns
pp 1-6
- By Mark J. McDonnell, Jürgen H. Breuste, Amy K. Hahs
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Part I - Opportunities and challenges of conducting comparative studies
pp 7-8
- By Jari Niemelä, D. Johan Kotze, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen
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2 - Comparative urban ecology: challenges and possibilities
pp 9-24
- By Jari Niemelä, D. Johan Kotze, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen
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3 - Frameworks for urban ecosystem studies: gradients, patch dynamics and the human ecosystem in the New York metropolitan area and Baltimore, USA
pp 25-50
- By Steward T. A. Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso, Mark J. McDonnell, William R. Burch, Jr
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4 - Comparative effects of urbanisation in marine and terrestrial habitats
pp 51-70
- By M. G. Chapman, A. J. Underwood
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5 - Comparative ecology of cities and towns: past, present and future
pp 71-89
- By Mark J. McDonnell, Amy K. Hahs
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6 - Comparative urban ecological research in developing countries
pp 90-111
- By Sarel Cilliers, Henk Bouwman, Ernst Drewes
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7 - Using models to compare the ecology of cities
pp 112-126
- By Michael McCarthy
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Part II - Ecological studies of cities and towns
pp 127-128
- By Carla P. Catterall
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8 - Responses of faunal assemblages to urbanisation: global research paradigms and an avian case study
pp 129-155
- By Carla P. Catterall
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9 - Effect of urban structures on diversity of marine species
pp 156-176
- By M. G. Chapman, David Blockley, Julie People, Brianna Clynick
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10 - Comparative studies of terrestrial vertebrates in urban areas
pp 177-184
- By Charles Nilon
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11 - The ecology of roads in urban and urbanising landscapes
pp 185-196
- By Rodney Van Der Ree
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12 - Spatial pattern and process in urban animal communities
pp 197-214
- By Yosihiro Natuhara, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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13 - Invertebrate biodiversity in urban landscapes: assessing remnant habitat and its restoration
pp 215-232
- By Dieter F. Hochuli, Fiona J. Christie, Boris Lomov
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14 - Arthropods in urban ecosystems: community patterns as functions of anthropogenic land use
pp 233-242
- By Nancy E. McIntyre, Jessamy J. Rango
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15 - Light pollution and the impact of artificial night lighting on insects
pp 243-263
- By Gerhard Eisenbeis, Andreas Hänel
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16 - A comparison of vegetation cover in Beijing and Shanghai: a remote sensing approach
pp 264-273
- By Jun Yang, Zhou Jinxing
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17 - Vegetation composition and structure of forest patches along urban–rural gradients
pp 274-286
- By Wayne C. Zipperer, Glenn R. Guntenspergen
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18 - Environmental, social and spatial determinants of urban arboreal character in Auckland, New Zealand
pp 287-307
- By Colin D. Meurk, Nadya Zvyagna, Rhys O. Gardner, Guy Forrester, Mike Wilcox, Graeme Hall, Heather North, Stella Belliss, Kathryn Whaley, Bill Sykes, Jerry Cooper, Kathryn O'Halloran
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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
pp 308-328
- By Margaret M. Carreiro, Richard V. Pouyat, Christopher E. Tripler, Wei-Xing Zhu
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20 - Investigative approaches to urban biogeochemical cycles: New York metropolitan area and Baltimore as case studies
pp 329-352
- By Richard V. Pouyat, Margaret M. Carreiro, Peter M. Groffman, Mitchell A. Pavao-Zuckerman
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Part III - Integrating science with management and planning
pp 353-354
- By Jürgen H. Breuste
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21 - Structural analysis of urban landscapes for landscape management in German cities
pp 355-379
- By Jürgen H. Breuste
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22 - Preservation of original natural vegetation in urban areas: an overview
pp 380-398
- By Clas Florgård
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23 - Homogeneity of urban biotopes and similarity of landscape design language in former colonial cities
pp 399-421
- By Maria E. Ignatieva, Glenn H. Stewart
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