Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Culture 77 farmfields, and fields unsuitable for building. Greenhouses of various sorts and indoor spaces for hydroponics and ot ...
78 Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns towork together toward a tangible constructive goal; and reduces hunger and m ...
Culture 79 Finally,following Chapter1 on regions and land mosaics and Chapter2 on planning land, this chapter on economic dimens ...
4Natural systems and greenspaces Ask a child with paints to make a large picture of a city look ecological. Splotches of greener ...
Natural systems and greenspaces 81 considerable confidence in analysis and planning (Karr 2002). To understand their development ...
82 Natural systems and greenspaces ocean currents, pollutant formation and transport, and long-distance migratory birds. Rather ...
Ecosystem, community, and population ecology 83 Figure 4.1Akeystone top predator, Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi). A globa ...
84 Natural systems and greenspaces food chain or pyramid has several important implications in urban regions. First, rarely are ...
Ecosystem, community, and population ecology 85 components of organisms (Barbouret al.1987,Odum and Barrett2005). Thesulfur cycl ...
86 Natural systems and greenspaces Natural communities Anatural communityis the assemblage of interacting species in an ecosys- ...
Ecosystem, community, and population ecology 87 Figure 4.2Herbivores in heavily browsed woods, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus vir ...
88 Natural systems and greenspaces along a generalized urban-to-rural gradient (McDonnellet al.1997).Usually, how- ever, rock, s ...
Ecosystem, community, and population ecology 89 and mid stages, is a well-known goal in management of certain natural vegeta- ti ...
90 Natural systems and greenspaces birth rate, which tend to regulate or dampen fluctuations in population size. Sometimes a pop ...
Ecosystem, community, and population ecology 91 predators; the moth species adapted over generations and became darker and less ...
92 Natural systems and greenspaces whereby one component stimulates a second which inhibits the first, resulting in some stabili ...
Freshwater and marine coast ecology 93 foraging and animal dispersal are most important in urban-region planning, since these st ...
94 Natural systems and greenspaces urban regions, wetlands have been mainly drained or filled, so the remaining ones are often c ...
Freshwater and marine coast ecology 95 Figure 4.3Upper streams and lower river with associated wetlands. All three types of wate ...
96 Natural systems and greenspaces blockage of fish migration; and severely degraded aquatic ecosystems and fish populations. Ye ...
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