Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World One of the striking and persistent ways humans dominate Earth is by changing land-cover as we settle a region. This book presents a summary of research on birds in settled environments ranging from wildlands to exurban, rural to urban. It is useful for ecologists, land managers, wildlife managers, evolutionary ecologists, and urban planners.
Full description- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Published: 30 September 2001
- Format: Hardback 598 pages
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- Categories: Ecological Science, The Biosphere | Zoology & Animal Sciences | Animal Ecology | Birds (ornithology) | Applied Ecology | Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology | Agriculture & Farming | Wildlife: General Interest | Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching
- ISBN 13: 9780792374589 ISBN 10: 0792374584
- Sales rank: 1,113,800
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Full description for Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World
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.
