Urban ecology is a recent field of study compared to ecology.[3] Currently, most of the information in this field is based on the easier to study species of mammals and birds [source needed].
Urban biodiversity faces threats from habitat loss, landscape fragmentation, and human disturbances. Ecological networks (ENs) can enhance habitat connectivity and bolster population resilience to disruptions.
Rapid urbanization and the global loss of biodiversity necessitate the development of a research agenda that addresses knowledge gaps in urban ecology that will inform policy, management, and conservation.
Urban ecology dictates that local-scale dynamic interactions between socioeconomic and biophysical forces leading to development of a concept called city. Alberti et al.Biodiversity and Conservation 19998119. 2. United Nations 2007World urbanization prospects: the 2007 revision.UN.
A final area of importance to both urban ecology- and biodiversity research overall- is how people interact with and perceive species in urban areas. For many people, urban wildlife plays a key role in shaping their views of nature as a whole.
Spatial heterogeneity in the biodiversity, biogeophysical, and social components of urban systems can be discussed in terms of patch dynamics, over many nested scales, examining ecological structure and dynamics from the individual household to the urban region.
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Using methods in landscape ecology, remote sensing, biodiversity conservation and the Analytic Hierarchy Process, this chapter describes how a toolkit for ecological network can be developed, as well as the efficacy of its use for biodiversity management.
As a discipline, urban ecology is only about a quarter-century old, and until very recently its practitioners tended to treat cities mainly as a contrast to rural areas, without considering the wild disparities between and within cities.
