There was an excellent article in the New York Times Magazine on the ramifications of Wal-Mart so aggressively entering the organic food market. They plan on offering a full line of organic foods at only 10% above…
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Today is the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. National Geographic had a nice overview article in their April issue, and has a multimedia presentation on their web site. Human impacts have been documented, but what about the…
A nice article in this morning’s New York Times, “A Weed, a Fly, a Mouse, and a Chain of Unintended Consequences,” gives another lesson of one of the hazards of using biological control — unanticipated ecological chain reactions. The most…
Here’s a startling update to the deer overpopulation thread. A paper in the latest issue of Conservation Biology described how Black Bears (Ursus americanus) have been extirpated from an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by the introduction of…
There’s a good piece in the current (Jul-Aug) issue of Audubon Magazine on the chronic White-tailed Deer overpopulation problem. Ted Williams points out what is obvious to most wildlife ecologists: that deer populations are allowed to grow until they destroy…
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Urban Ecology Resources
Books
- Novel Ecosystems
- Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast, 2nd Ed.
- Field Guide to Urban Wildlife
- Road Ecology
- The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
- Where Do Camels Belong? The Story and Science of Invasive Species
- Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
- Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City
- Restoring Disturbed Landscapes: Putting Principles into Practice
- Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting
- Wild Urban Woodlands: New Perspectives for Urban Forestry
- Nature All Around Us: A Guide to Urban Ecology
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Literature
- Urban Naturalist (journal; I’m on editorial board)
- Endangered by Sprawl (report)
- Ibis special issue: Birds and Recreational Disturbance (open access)
- Anthropocene Magazine
- Urban Ecosystems (journal)
- Journal of Urban Ecology
Research Groups and Centers
- Urban Wildlands Group
- Urban Wildlife Working Group
- Hixon Center for Urban Ecology (Yale)
- NSF urban Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Centers:
- ---Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER
- ---Minneapolis-St. Paul LTER
- ---Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER
- Anthroecology Lab (University of Maryland)
- Urban Ecology Research Laboratory (University of Washington)
- Anthropocene Working Group
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