Avian ecology and conservation in an urbanizing world
By: edited by John Marzluff, Reed Bowman, Roarke Donnelly.
Contributors: Marzluff, John M.; Bowman, Reed.; Donnelly, Roarke.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 585
Subjects: Birds -- Ecology; Urbanization -- Environmental aspects; Birds -- Conservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A historical perspective on urban bird research: trends, terms, and approaches / John M. Marzluff, Reed Bowman, and Roarke Donnelly; title: Worldwide urbanization and its effects on birds / John M. Marzluff; title: Synanthropic birds of North America / Richard F. Johnston; title: Human perception and appreciation of birds: a motivation for wildlife conservation in urban environments of France / Philippe Clergeau ... [et al.]; title: Quantifying the urban gradient: linking urban planning and ecology / Marina Alberti, Erik Botsford, and Alex Cohen; title: Urbanization, avian communities, and landscape ecology / James R. Miller ... [et al.]; title: The importance of multi-scale analyses in avian habitat selection studies in urban environments / Mark Hostetler; title: Urban birds: population, community, and landscape approaches / Douglas Bolger; title: Interactions among non-native plants and birds / Sarah Hayden Reichard, Linda Chalker-Scott, and Solai Buchanan; title: Urban sprawl and juniper encroachment effects on abundance of wintering passerines in Oklahoma / Bryan R. Coppedge ... [et al.]; title: Nest predator abundance and urbanization / David G. Haskell, A.M. Knupp, and M.C. Schneider; title: Bird tolerance to human disturbance in urban parks of Madrid (Spain): management implications / Esteban Fernández-Juricic, María Dolores Jiminez, and Elena Lucas; title: Settlement of breeding European starlings in urban areas: importance of lawns vs. anthropogenic wastes / Gwenaelle Mennechez and Philippe Clergeau; title: Variation in the timing of breeding between suburban and wildland Florida scrub-jays: do physiologic measures reflect different environments? / Stephan J. Schoech and Reed Bowman; title: The ecology of Western gulls in habitats varying in degree of urban influence / Raymond Pierotti and Cynthia Annett; title: Causes and consequences of expanding American crow populations / John M. Marzluff ... [et al.]; title: Demographic and behavioral comparisons of suburban and rural American crows / Kevin McGowan; title: Nest success and the timing of nest failure of Florida scrub-jays in suburban and wildland habitats / Reed Bowman and Glen E. Woolfenden; title: Synurbanization of the magpie in the Palearctic / Leszek Jerzak; title: Macaw abundance in relation to human population density in the western Amazon Basin / Daniel M. Brooks and Alfredo J. Begazo; title: Waterbird production in an urban center in Alaska / Michael R. North; title: Creating a homogeneous avifauna / Robert B. Blair; title: Avian community characteristics of urban greenspaces in St. Louis, Missouri / Jeffrey M. Azerrad and Charles H. Nilon; title: The importance of the Chicago region and the "Chicago Wilderness" initiative for avian conservation / Jeffrey D. Brawn and Douglas F. Stotz; title: Do temporal trends in Christmas bird counts reflect the spatial trends of urbanization in southwestern Ohio? / Nancy A. Crosby and Robert B. Blair; title: Survey techniques and habitat relationships of breeding birds in residential areas of Toronto, Canada / Jean-Pierre L. Savard and J. Bruce Falls; title: Integrating avian ecology into emerging paradigms in urban ecology / Reed Bowman and John M. Marzluff.