The Biology of Urban Environments
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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How do plants, animals, and humans manage to survive and adapt to the urban environment? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of biological matters related to urban environments presenting both the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, and practical examples required to understand and address the challenges presented by this novel environment. The Biology of Urban Environments focusses on urban denizens: species (both domesticated and non-domesticated) that live for all or part of their life cycle in towns and cities. The biology of household plants and companion animals is discussed alongside that of species that have become feral or have not been domesticated. Temporal and spatial distribution patterns are set out and generalizations are made while exceptions are also discussed. The various strategies used and the genotypic, phenotypic, and behavioural adaptions of plants and animals in the face of the challenges presented by urban environments are explained. The final two chapters contain a discussion of the impacts of urban environments on human biology and suggestions on how this understanding might be used to address the increasing human health burden associated with illnesses that are characteristic of urbanites in the early twenty-first century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Biology of Urban Environments “
- 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
Autoren-Porträt von Philip James
Philip James is Professor of Ecology in the School of Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Salford. In addition to his post at the University of Salford, Philip has honorary positions at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge. Prior to The Biology of Urban Environments Philip has previously co-authored two books on Urban Ecology and has published the results of his own, and collaborative research, in journal articles. Philip is a Fellow of the Royal society of Biology and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip James
- 2018, 320 Seiten, Masse: 15,8 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198827245
- ISBN-13: 9780198827245
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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