Expanding fundamental ecological knowledge by studying urban ecosystems

Green Roofs as Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Structures, Functions, and Services

Parallel ecological networks in ecosystems

In ecosystems, species interact with other species directly and through abiotic factors in multiple ways, often forming complex networks of various types of ecological interaction. Out of this suite of interactions, predator-prey interactions have received most attention. The resulting food webs, however, will always operate simultaneously with networks based on other types of ecological intera...

Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems

F most of human history, the influence of human beings on biophysical processes, ecological systems, and evolutionary change has been relatively limited, as compared with the influence of “natural” (nonhuman) processes. Ecological and evolutionary change has generally been attributable to natural variation in energy and material flows and to natural selection by parasites, diseases, predators, ...

Ecological Approaches to Studying Zoonoses.

Concern over emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and a better understanding of their causes has resulted in increasing recognition of the linkages among human, animal, and ecosystem health. It is now well recognized that human activities can promote the emergence of infectious diseases through the large-scale modification of natural environments and inadvertent vectoring (e.g., international tr...

Ecological Design of Urban Landscape

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...