"This book contains a series of essays designed for graduate students and researchers on crucial issues in the relatively new field of urban ecology"--.

• Cover
• Urban Ecology: Its Nature and Challenges
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Urban Ecology: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?
• 2 How Urban Forest Composition Shapes the Structure and Function of Arthropod Communities
• 3 Wildlife in the City: Human Drivers and Human Consequences
• 4 Urban Plant Ecophysiology
• 5 Urban Biodiversity: Between Elsewhere-Nature and the Post-Wild World
• 6 Protecting Pollinators in the Urban Environment
• 7 Urban Ecology as an Integrative Science and Practice
• 8 Ecology of Urban Climates: The Need for Landscape Biophysics in Cities
• 9 The Green Cities Movement: Progress and Future Challenges
• 10 Light Pollution: How Urban Conditions Influence Ecological Interactions
• 11 Citizen Science in Urban Habitats
• 12 Ecology of Insects and Other Arthropods in Urban Agroecosystems
• 13 Future Prospects and Challenges in Urban Ecology
• Index
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