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Urban wildlife management
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ISBN: 9781032097961 9781498702010 9781315371863 Year: 2021 Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis Group,

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Urban development is one of the leading worldwide threats to conserving biodiversity. In the near future, wildlife management in urban landscapes will be a prominent issue for wildlife professionals. This new edition of Urban Wildlife Management continues the work of its predecessors by providing a comprehensive examination of the issues that increase the need for urban wildlife management, exploring the changing dynamics of the field while giving historical perspectives and looking at current trends and future directions. The book examines a range of topics on human interactions with wildlife in urbanized environments. It focuses not only on ecological matters but also on political, economic, and societal issues that must be addressed for successful management planning. This edition features an entirely new section on urban wildlife species, including chapters on urban communities, herpetofauna, birds, ungulates, mammals, carnivores, and feral and introduced species.


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Animal history in the modern city : exploring liminality
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ISBN: 1350054062 1350054046 1350054038 1350155233 1350054054 9781350054059 9781350054066 9781350054042 Year: 2018 Publisher: [London] : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Animals are increasingly recognized as fit and proper subjects for historians, yet their place in conventional historical narratives remains contested. This volume argues for a history of animals based on the centrality of liminality - the state of being on the threshold, not quite one thing yet not quite another. Since animals stand between nature and culture, wildness and domestication, the countryside and the city, and tradition and modernity, the concept of liminality has a special resonance for historical animal studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Urban Bats : Biology, Ecology, and Human Dimensions
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ISBN: 3031131738 9783031131738 303113172X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG,

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The Anthropocene is the “age of human influence”, an epoch well known for its urban impact. More than half of all people already live in cities, and this proportion is expected to rise to almost 70 percent by 2050. Like other species in urban areas, bats must contend with the pressures of profound and irreversible land cover change and overcome certain unique challenges, such as the high density of roads, lights, glass, and free-ranging domestic animals. Research on urban bats in recent decades indicates that when it comes to urban life, some bats are synanthropes. In other words, although most species of bats are negatively impacted by urbanisation, many appear to not only succeed, but also thrive in cities and towns. This observation has inspired interesting questions about bats in relation to urbanisation. Which traits and behaviours equip bats for urban success? What features of urban areas increase the likelihood that bats will successfully persist there or even colonize new areas? And how does the success of urban bats affect co-habiting humans? Our book explores the interactions between bats and urban environments through case studies and reviews. Understanding how different species interact with urban environments can reveal potential opportunities to mitigate urban threats to bats and threats posed by bats to other urban organisms, including humans. With this book, we thus aspire to provide a knowledge base to help guide current and future efforts to conserve bats.


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Provisional Bibliography of Atlases, Floras and Faunas of European Cities: 1600–2014
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ISBN: 3319311182 3319311204 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe. It will be of considerable interest to and should be used by a wide range of people including academics, researchers, librarians, school teachers, and people with a general interest in the natural history of cities. The bibliography is an important tool for the professions involved in the planning, design and management of high quality urban developments, including biologists, architects, urban designers, planners, consultants, medics., sociologists, engineers, politicians, landscape architects, building surveyors, agronomists and landscape managers.


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Urban Raptors : Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities
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ISBN: 9781610918411 161091841X 9781610919876 1610919874 9781610918404 1610918401 9781610918398 1610918398 Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press,

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Raptors are an unusual success story of wildness thriving in the heart of our cities—they have developed substantial populations around the world in recent decades. But there are deeper issues around how these birds make their urban homes. New research provides insight into the role of raptors as vital members of the urban ecosystem and future opportunities for protection, management, and environmental education. A cutting-edge synthesis of over two decades of scientific research, Urban Raptors is the first book to offer a complete overview of urban ecosystems in the context of bird-of-prey ecology and conservation. This comprehensive volume examines urban environments, explains why some species adapt to urban areas but others do not, and introduces modern research tools to help in the study of urban raptors. It also delves into climate change adaptation, human-wildlife conflict, and the unique risks birds of prey face in urban areas before concluding with real-world wildlife management case studies and suggestions for future research and conservation efforts. Boal and Dykstra have compiled the go-to single source of information on urban birds of prey. Among researchers, urban green space planners, wildlife management agencies, birders, and informed citizens alike, Urban Raptors will foster a greater understanding of birds of prey and an increased willingness to accommodate them as important members, not intruders, of our cities.

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General ecology and biosociology --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Pedology --- Environmental planning --- Economic geography --- dierenecologie --- ruimtelijke ordening --- ecologie --- geografie --- ecosystemen --- klimaatverandering --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Animal ecology. --- Ecosystems. --- Ecology . --- Urban Ecology. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Animal Ecology. --- Terrestial Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Animals --- Zoology --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Landscape protection --- City ecology (Biology) --- Government policy --- Management --- Environmental aspects --- North America. --- Turtle Island --- Birds of prey --- Urban animals --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Birds --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Predatory birds --- Prey, Birds of --- Raptores --- Raptorial birds --- Raptors --- Predatory animals --- Conservation --- City planning. --- Biotic communities. --- Ecology.

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