Over half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and

Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most inten

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consist

Nowhere is the challenge for ecological understanding greater than in cities. This book brings together the biological, physical and social dimensions of urban

Urban Ecology is a rapidly growing field of academic and practical significance. Urban ecologists have published several conference proceedings and regularly co