ISBN : 9780198827245
Provides a novel perspective on urban ecosystems, summarising our current understanding of the basic and applied aspects of these important and complex habitats, whilst focusing on environmental concerns in the context of global change.
1 What is the urban environment and what is biology?
Part I
The urban environment
2 The built environment
3 The physical environment
4 The natural environment - habitats and communities
Part II
Diversity and distribution
5 Diversity of species
6 Relationships
7 Temporal patterns
8 Spatial patterns
Part III
Adapting to urban living
9 Strategies
10 Physiological and behavioural changes - how do they live
Part IV
People and nature
11 Human urban biology
12 A new relationship