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Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World

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Editors:
  1. John M. Marzluff

    1. College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, USA

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  2. Reed Bowman

    1. Archbold Biological Station, USA

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  3. Roarke Donnelly

    1. College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, USA

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction to the Study of Birds in Urban Environments

    1. A historical perspective on urban bird research: trends, terms, and approaches

      • John M. Marzluff, Reed Bowman, Roarke Donnelly
      Pages 1-17

    2. Worldwide urbanization and its effects on birds

      • John M. Marzluff
      Pages 19-47

    3. Synanthropic birds of North America

      • Richard F. Johnston
      Pages 49-67

    4. Human perception and appreciation of birds: A motivation for wildlife conservation in urban environments of France

      • Phillipe Clergeau, Gwanaelle Mennechez, Andre Sauvage, Agnes Lemoine
      Pages 69-88

    5. Quantifying the urban gradient: Linking urban planning and ecology

      • Marina Alberti, Erik Botsford, Alex Cohen
      Pages 89-115

    6. Urbanization,avian communities,and landscape ecology

      • James R. Miller, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, N. Thompson Hobbs, David M. Theobald, John A. Wiens
      Pages 117-137

    7. The importance of multi-scale analyses in avian habitat selection studies in urban environments

      • Mark Hostetler
      Pages 139-154

  3. Processes Affecting Birds in Urban Environments

    1. Urban birds: population, community, and landscape approaches

      • Douglas T. Bolger
      Pages 155-177

    2. Interactions among non-native plants and birds

      • Sarah Hayden Reichard, Linda Chalker-Scott, Solai Buchanan
      Pages 179-223

    3. Urban sprawl and juniper encroachment effects on abundance of wintering passerines in Oklahoma

      • Bryan R. Coppedge, David M. Engle, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Ronald E. Masters, Mark S. Gregory
      Pages 225-242

    4. Nest predator abundance and urbanization

      • David G. Haskell, A. M. Knupp, M. C. Schneider
      Pages 243-258

    5. Bird tolerance to human disturbance in urban parks of Madrid (Spain): Management implications

      • Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Maria Dolores Jimenez, Elena Lucas
      Pages 259-273

    6. Settlement of breeding European Starlings in urban areas: Importance of lawns vs. anthropogenic wastes

      • Gwénaëlle Mennechez, Philippe Clergeau
      Pages 275-287

    7. Variation in the timing of breeding between suburban and wildland Florida Scrub-Jays: Do physiologic measures reflect different environments?

      • Stephan J. Schoech, Reed Bowman
      Pages 289-306

  4. Bird Populations in Urban Environments

    1. The ecology of Western Gulls in habitats varying in degree of urban influence

      • Raymond Pierotti, Cynthia Annett
      Pages 307-329

    2. Causes and consequences of expanding American Crow populations

      • John M. Marzluff, Kevin J. McGowan, Roarke Donnelly, Richard L. Knight
      Pages 331-363

    3. Demographic and behavioral comparisons of suburban and rural American Crows

      • Kevin J. McGowan
      Pages 365-381

    4. Nest success and the timing of nest failure of Florida Scrub-Jays in suburban and wildland habitats

      • Reed Bowman, Glen E. Woolfenden
      Pages 383-402

    5. Synurbanization of the magpie in the Palearctic

      • Leszek Jerzak
      Pages 403-425
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About this book

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, USA

    John M. Marzluff, Roarke Donnelly

  • Archbold Biological Station, USA

    Reed Bowman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World

  • Editors: John M. Marzluff, Reed Bowman, Roarke Donnelly

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1531-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7458-9Published: 30 September 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5600-4Published: 30 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1531-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 585

  • Topics: Urban Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Ecology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Environmental Management

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