Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World

By: John Marzluff (Editor), Reed Bowman (Editor), Roarke Donnelly (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 September 2001

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One of the most striking and persistent ways humans dominate Earth is by changing land-cover as we settle a region. Much of our ecological understanding about this process comes from studies of birds, yet the existing literature is scattered, mostly decades old, and rarely synthesized or standardized.
The twenty-seven contributions authored by leaders in the fields of avian and urban ecology present a unique summary of current research on birds in settled environments ranging from wildlands to exurban, rural to urban. Ecologists, land managers, wildlife managers, evolutionary ecologists, urban planners, landscape architects, and conservation biologists will find our information useful because we address the conservation and evolutionary implications of urban life from an ecological and planning perspective. Graduate students in these fields also will find the volume to be a useful summary and synthesis of current research, extant literature, and prescriptions for future work. All interested in human-driven land-cover changes will benefit from a perusal of this book because we present high altitude photographs of each study area.

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`Avian Ecology in an Urbanizing World is a useful compilation of research on birds in human-dominated landscapes, and belongs ... in the library of any institution intereested in stydying or managing urban systems. It also highlights how much more we need to learn in order to address the impacts on birds of the suite of human activities that comprise urbanization. It is therefore a good point of departure for students embarking on new research in urban areas.'
Ecology, 83:9 (2002)

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Preface
Introduction to the Study of Birds in Urban Environments
A historical perspective on urban bird research: trends, terms, and approaches
Worldwide urbanization and its effects on birds
Synanthropic birds of North America
Human perception and appreciation of birds: A motivation for wildlife conservation in urban environments of France
Quantifying the urban gradient: linking urban planning and ecology
Urbanization, avian communities, and landscape ecology
The importance of multi-scale analyses in avian habitat selection studies in urban environments
Processes Affecting Birds in Urban Environments
Urban birds: Population, community, and landscape approaches
Interactions among non-native plants and birds
Urban sprawl and juniper encroachment effects on abundance of wintering passerines in Oklahoma
Nest predator abundance and urbanization
Bird tolerance to human disturbance in urban parks of Madrid (Spain): Management implications
Settlement of breeding European Starlings in urban areas: importance of lawns vs. anthropogenic wastes
Variation in the timing of breeding between suburban and wildland Florida Scrub-Jays: Do physiologic measures reflect different environments?
Bird Populations in Urban Environments
The ecology of Western Gulls in habitats varying in degree of urban influence
Causes and consequences of expanding American Crow populations
Demographic and behavioral comparisons of suburban and rural American Crows
Nest success and the timing of nest failure of Florida Scrub-Jays in suburban and wildland habitats
Synurbanization of the Magpie in the Palearctic
Maccaw abundance in relation to human population density in the western Amazon basin
Waterbird production in an urban center in Alaska
Bird Communities in Urban Environments
Creating a homogeneous avifauna
Avian community characteristics of urban greenspaces in St. Louis, Missouri
The importance of the Chicago region and the "Chicago Wilderness" initiative for avian conservation
Do temporal trends in Christmas Bird Counts reflect the spatial trends of urbanization in southwestern Ohio? N.A. Crosby
Survey techniques and habitat relationships of breeding birds in residential areas of Toronto, Canada
Synthesis
Integrating avian ecology into emerging paradigms in urban ecology
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