Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation (Studies in Avian Biology, Volume 45)
Language: English
Pages: 376
ISBN: B01K0TLD60
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Now that more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, the study of birds in urban ecosystems has emerged at the forefront of ornithological research. An international team of leading researchers in urban bird ecology and conservation from across Europe and North America presents the state of this diverse field, addressing classic questions while proposing new directions for further study. Areas of particular focus include the processes underlying patterns of species shifts along urban-rural gradients, the demography of urban birds and the role of citizen science, and human-avian interaction in urban areas. This important reference fills a crucial need for scientists, planners, and managers of urban spaces and all those interested in the study and conservation of birds in the world’s expanding metropolises.
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Enough nests of urban avoiders in urban habitat. Nest predation has been hypothesized to be a major force structuring bird communities (Martin 1993) and a critical determinant of the viability of populations in fragmented habitats (Robinson et al. 1995). It is now widely accepted that humancaused alterations of communities of nest predators can have cascading effects on community structure in remnant patches of natural habitat in human-dominated landscapes (Heske et al. 1999, Chalfoun et al.
Downstream dam began to trap industrial pollutants, eventually causing massive fish die-offs, resulting in a marked decrease in people using the park. Subsequently, crime in the park and neighborhood increased, peaking in the mid 1980s. A grassroots community effort to save the park arose, with the goal of reclaiming Riverside Park for recreational use through environmental education and community support. The outcome of this effort was the creation of the Urban Ecology Center (UEC). Today the.
Gradient, and how supplemental food at feeders may affect survivorship and productivity across this gradient. If successful, the project may be enlarged to cover Georgia and Florida in future years. Our main goal is to develop strategies for sustaining eastern Painted Bunting populations, using a citizen science framework where volunteers play a major role in monitoring and collecting data in the field. Based on this goal, our objectives were to: (1) recruit citizen volunteers who would make.
Emlen 1974, Tweit and Tweit 1986). Because urban sprawl affects bird populations in such profound ways, sustaining and promoting native bird diversity in urban areas is of special concern. Conservation efforts of this kind are important not only in the broad scheme of protecting biodiversity, but also because incorporating natural components into urban areas 140 STUDIES IN AVIAN BIOLOGY allows for increased human-nature interactions (Turner et al. 2004). While urban landscapes are dissimilar.
Defined as the “city construction process” (Gottdiener and Hutchinson 2006), which creates a heterogeneous landscape of varying land uses. From an ecological perspective, urbanization represents the process of converting, degrading, and fragmenting natural habitats (McDonnell and Pickett 1993). The direct ecological impact from urbanization involves the replacement of native vegetation structure by city infrastructure (e.g., buildings, roads, utilities). Indirectly, urbanization alters vegetation.