Anmerkung: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Section I Urbanization and Human Domination of Earth -- Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems -- Humans as theWorld's Greatest Evolutionary Force -- Urbanization -- Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the use of "Urban" Between the Social and Natural Sciences -- Section II Conceptual Foundations of Urban Ecology -- The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project -- On the Early History of Urban Ecology in Europe -- Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas -- Integrated Approaches to Long-Term Studies of Urban Ecological Systems -- Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems -- Section III The Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Pedosphere -- Sealing of Soils -- Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn -- Streams in the Urban Landscape -- The Urban Climate - Basic and Applied Aspects -- GlobalWarming and the Urban Heat Island -- A Retrospective Assessment of Mortality from the London Smog Episode of 1952: The Role of Influenza and Pollution -- HeatWaves, Urban Climate and Human Health -- Section IV The Biosphere -- The City as a Subject for Ecological Research -- Ecosystem Processes Along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient -- House Sparrows: Rapid Evolution of Races in North America -- On the Role of Alien Species in Urban Flora and Vegetation -- Socioeconomics Drive Urban Plant Diversity -- Fauna of the Big City - Estimating Species Richness and Abundance in Warsaw, Poland -- Island Biogeography for an UrbanizingWorld: How Extinction and Colonization May Determine Biological Diversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes -- A Long-Term Survey of the Avifauna in an Urban Park. , Biodiversity in the Argentinean Rolling Pampa Ecoregion: Changes Caused by Agriculture and Urbanisation -- Does Differential Access to Protein Influence Differences in Timing of Breeding of Florida Scrub-Jays -- in Suburban andWildland Habitats? -- Creating a Homogeneous Avifauna -- Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Urbanization's Impacts on Fish -- Bat Activity in an Urban Landscape: Patterns at the Landscape and Microhabitat Scale -- Urbanization and Spider Diversity: Influences of Human Modification of Habitat Structure and Productivity -- Section V The Anthroposphere: Human Dimensions -- Social Science Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding Urban Ecosystems -- The Iceberg and the Titanic: Human Economic Behavior in Ecological Models -- Forecasting Demand for Urban Land -- Characteristics, Causes, and Effects of Sprawl: A Literature Review -- Urban Ecological Footprints:Why Cities Cannot be Sustainable-andWhy They are a Key to Sustainability -- Health, Supportive Environments, and the Reasonable Person Model -- Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity -- Megacities as Global Risk Areas -- Why Is Understanding Urban Ecosystems Important to People Concerned About Environmental Justice? -- Section VI The Anthroposphere: Planning and Policy -- The Struggle to Govern the Commons -- Modeling the Urban Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework -- Scientific, Institutional, and Individual Constraints on Restoring Puget Sound Rivers -- Toward Ecosystem Management: Shifts in the Core and the Context of Urban Forest Ecology -- What Is the Form of a City, and How Is It Made? -- Dimensions of Performance -- What Should an Ideal City Look Like from an Ecological View? - Ecological Demands on the Future City -- Land Use Planning andWildlife Maintenance -- Terrestrial Nature Reserve Design at the Urban/Rural Interface. , Restoration of Fragmented Landscapes for the Conservation of Birds: A General Framework and Specific Recommendations for Urbanizing Landscapes -- Steps Involved in Designing Conservation Subdivisions: A Straightforward Approach -- Linking Conservation Lands in Future Subdivisions to Create an Interconnected Open Space Network: A Greener Vision -- Beyond Greenbelts and Zoning: A New Planning Concept for the Environment of Asian Mega-Cities.