Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World

1. A historical perspective on urban bird research: trends, terms, and approaches.- 2. Worldwide urbanization and its effects on birds.- 3. Synanthropic birds of North America.- 4. Human perception and appreciation of birds: A motivation for wildlife conservation in urban environments of France.- 5. Quantifying the urban gradient: linking urban planning and ecology.- 6. Urbanization, avian communities, and landscape ecology.- 7. The importance of multi-scale analyses in avian habitat selection studies in urban environments.- 8. Urban birds: Population, community, and landscape approaches.- 9. Interactions among non-native plants and birds.- 10. Urban sprawl and juniper encroachment effects on abundance of wintering passerines in Oklahoma.- 11. Nest predator abundance and urbanization.- 12. Bird tolerance to human disturbance in urban parks of Madrid (Spain): Management implications.- 13. Settlement of breeding European Starlings in urban areas: importance of lawns vs. anthropogenic wastes.- 14. Variation in the timing of breeding between suburban and wildland Florida Scrub-Jays: Do physiologic measures reflect different environments?.- 15. The ecology of Western Gulls in habitats varying in degree of urban influence.- 16. Causes and consequences of expanding American Crow populations.- 17. Demographic and behavioral comparisons of suburban and rural American Crows.- 18. Nest success and the timing of nest failure of Florida Scrub-Jays in suburban and wildland habitats.- 19. Synurbanization of the Magpie in the Palearctic.- 20. Macaw abundance in relation to human population density in the western Amazon basin.- 21. Waterbird production in an urban center in Alaska.- 22. Creating a homogeneous avifauna.- 23. Avian community characteristics of urban greenspaces in St. Louis, Missour.- 24. The importance of the Chicago region and the “Chicago Wilderness” initiative for avian conservation.- 25. Do temporal trends in Christmas Bird Counts reflect the spatial trends of urbanization in southwestern Ohio?.- 26. Survey techniques and habitat relationships of breeding birds in residential areas of Toronto, Canada.- 27. Integrating avian ecology into emerging paradigms in urban ecology.