Urban Biodiversity - ERIK KIVIAT, Kristi MacDonald

Urban Biodiversity

The Natural History of the New Jersey Meadowlands
Buch | Hardcover
460 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9991-7 (ISBN)
139,65 inkl. MwSt
Kiviat and MacDonald delve into the considerable biodiversity of an ecologically battered urban-industrial region, addressing wild species from lichens to mammals. The results will help decision makers foster wildlife and plants that can cope with urban conditions and will aid in reducing loss of biodiversity in urbanizing areas.
With large-scale, global declines in many species of plants and animals and other disruptions such as climate change and urbanization, we must learn how humans and other species can coexist with one another. In a case study of urban biodiversity, Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald present two decades of data and assessment of the habitats and biota of the New Jersey Meadowlands. Urban Biodiversity: The Natural History of New Jersey Meadowlands documents the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, butterflies, bees, dragonflies, seed plants, mosses, and lichens of the Meadowlands region and the patterns of their occurrence. The work records the natural history of an urban-industrial region, helping decision makers foster the biodiversity that thrives in cities and giving planners tools to reduce the biological degradation that occurs with urbanization.

Erik Kiviat is executive director of Hudsonia, a nonprofit institute for scientific research and education based in Annandale, New York. Kristi MacDonald is director of science at Raritan Headwaters, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Environmental Setting of the Meadowlands

Chapter 2: Habitats: Marshes, Ponds, and Channels

Chapter 3: Uplands and Forested Wetlands

Chapter 4: Seed Plants

Chapter 5: Cryptogams

Chapter 6: Mammals

Chapter 7: Birds

Chapter 8: Reptiles and Amphibians

Chapter 9: Fishes of the Meadowlands and Adjacent Waters

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Chapter 10: Invertebrates

Conclusion

Appendix 1. List of Seed Plants of the Meadowlands

Appendix 2. List of Birds of the Meadowlands

References

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Robert E. Schmidt
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 228 mm
Gewicht 798 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-4985-9991-5 / 1498599915
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-9991-7 / 9781498599917
Zustand Neuware
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