1st Edition

Urban Ecology

By Dianne Smith Copyright 2007
92 Pages
by Routledge

92 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

There are many micro-habitats in built up areas, often subject to strong environmental pressures such as atmospheric and water pollution, frequent disturbance, trampling, nutrient or water scarcity, etc. In Urban Ecology Dianne Smith uses such features as footpaths, walls, gravestones, gardens, compost heaps and derelict land to investigate the effects of these pressures and to demonstrate other... Read more

Introduction

1. Disturbed areas

2. Man-made niches

3. Pollution


 

 

Biography

Dianne Smith