Screen LibraryAvian ecology and conservation in an urbanizing world
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Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston |
| Publication Dates: | 2001. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 585 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0792374584 |
| Index Number: | Q959 |
| CLC: |
Q959.708 X174 S863 |
| Call Number: | Q959.708/A957 |
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Includes bibliographical references. A historical perspective on urban bird research: trends, terms, and approaches / John M. Marzluff, Reed Bowman, and Roarke Donnelly -- Worldwide urbanization and its effects on birds / John M. Marzluff -- Synanthropic birds of North America / Richard F. Johnston -- Human perception and appreciation of birds: a motivation for wildlife conservation in urban environments of France / Philippe Clergeau ... [et al.] -- Quantifying the urban gradient: linking urban planning and ecology / Marina Alberti, Erik Botsford, and Alex Cohen -- Urbanization, avian communities, and landscape ecology / James R. Miller ... [et al.] -- The importance of multi-scale analyses in avian habitat selection studies in urban environments / Mark Hostetler -- Urban birds: population, community, and landscape approaches / Douglas Bolger -- Interactions among non-native plants and birds / Sarah Hayden Reichard, Linda Chalker-Scott, and Solai Buchanan -- Urban sprawl and juniper encroachment effects on abundance of wintering passerines in Oklahoma / Bryan R. Coppedge ... [et al.] -- Nest predator abundance and urbanization / David G. Haskell, A.M. Knupp, and M.C. Schneider -- Bird tolerance to human disturbance in urban parks of Madrid (Spain): management implications / Esteban Fernández-Juricic, María Dolores Jiminez, and Elena Lucas -- Settlement of breeding European starlings in urban areas: importance of lawns vs. anthropogenic wastes / Gwenaelle Mennechez and Philippe Clergeau -- 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 -- The ecology of Western gulls in habitats varying in degree of urban influence / Raymond Pierotti and Cynthia Annett -- Causes and consequences of expanding American crow populations / John M. Marzluff ... [et al.] -- Demographic and behavioral comparisons of suburban and rural American crows / Kevin McGowan -- Nest success and the timing of nest failure of Florida scrub-jays in suburban and wildland habitats / Reed Bowman and Glen E. Woolfenden -- Synurbanization of the magpie in the Palearctic / Leszek Jerzak -- Macaw abundance in relation to human population density in the western Amazon Basin / Daniel M. Brooks and Alfredo J. Begazo -- Waterbird production in an urban center in Alaska / Michael R. North -- Creating a homogeneous avifauna / Robert B. Blair -- Avian community characteristics of urban greenspaces in St. Louis, Missouri / Jeffrey M. Azerrad and Charles H. Nilon -- The importance of the Chicago region and the "Chicago Wilderness" initiative for avian conservation / Jeffrey D. Brawn and Douglas F. Stotz -- Do temporal trends in Christmas bird counts reflect the spatial trends of urbanization in southwestern Ohio? / Nancy A. Crosby and Robert B. Blair -- Survey techniques and habitat relationships of breeding birds in residential areas of Toronto, Canada / Jean-Pierre L. Savard and J. Bruce Falls -- Integrating avian ecology into emerging paradigms in urban ecology / Reed Bowman and John M. Marzluff. |