1. Editorial

   • B. Graeme Lockaby

   EditorialNotes Pages: 5 - 5

2. Interdisciplinary research at the Urban–Rural interface: The West ga project

   • B. G. Lockaby
   • D. Zhang
   • S. Pan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 21

3. Connecting local environmental knowledge and land use practices: A human ecosystem approach to urbanization in West Georgia

   • Josh McDaniel
   • Kelly D. Alley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 38

4. Detection of biotic responses to urbanization using fish assemblages from small streams of western Georgia, USA

   • Brian S. Helms
   • Jack W. Feminella
   • Shufen Pan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 57

5. Distribution of neotropical migratory bird species across an urbanizing landscape

   • Jeffrey A. Stratford
   • W. Douglas Robinson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 77

6. Non-native plants in the understory of riparian forests across a land use gradient in the Southeast

   • Nancy J. Loewenstein
   • Edward F. Loewenstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 91

7. Riparian woody plant diversity and forest structure along an urban-rural gradient

   • Michele L. Burton
   • Lisa J. Samuelson
   • Shufen Pan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 106

8. Changes in chemical and physical propertiesof stream water across an urban-rural gradient in western Georgia

   • Jon E. Schoonover
   • B. Graeme Lockaby
   • Shufen Pan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 124