This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive growth, but this is rarely seen. Urban ecology, an essential field that supports planning based on environmental perspectives, is a new science in tropical countries. This book discusses the social inequity embedded in tropical cities and explores how this inequity also materializes in biodiversity, with poor neighborhoods of tropical cities lacking sufficient access to green space, and therefore reduced access to the benefits of nature, and poor support for biodiversity. With the current biodiversity crisis, the traditional approach to protecting pristine areas is insufficient. The chapters in this volume illustrate how tropical cities can act as spaces for biological conservation. Ecological literacy can help cities reconcile the needs of both people and of nature.
This book compiles studies by experts from more than 100 institutions and 29 countries on the ecology and biodiversity of tropical cities at multiple scales and applies their studies to urban planning and management. The audience for this book includes researchers, students, and professionals working on environmental, social, economic, cultural, political, architectural, and development projects in urban areas, offering a deep and timely discussion of their influence on the fauna and flora of tropical cities.
1 The Ecology and Biodiversity of Tropical Cities Are as Important as
Unknown.- 2 Could cities be an object of study for Ecology.- 3 Green Forest
Gray Cities in the Amazon.- 4 Growing cities and shrinking fish Potential
urbanization effects on fish and fisheries in tropical rivers.- 5 Latin
America Where urbanization and poverty peak together with biodiversity.- 6
Vale Encantado Park Popular mobilization for a conservation area in a
metropolitan environment.- 7 People animals and waste form systemic links
within tropical cities Case of an urban raptor in Delhi India.- 8 Urban Green
Spaces in Neotropical Cities Biodiversity Conservation and Menaces.- 9 Green
and gray grids urban network natural resources and the construction of a
sustainable landscape in northern Paranį state Brazil.- 10 Loss of seaweed
biodiversity in marine tropical regions caused by unplanned coastal
urbanization.- 11 Urban biological evolution in tropical cities.- 12
Exploring urban greenspace and biodiversity in tropical Africa.- 13 Urban
Forestry and Forest City Agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta Southern
China.- 14 Tree diversity in an urban industrial area implications for urban
greening and conservation.- 15 Composition And Structure Of Urban Tree
Communities In Brazilian Cities.- 16 Opposing Urban Ecology The Restrictions
Of Morphology And Architectural Typology To Urban Forestry.- 17 Urban
Biodiversity Hotspots Harnessing the Conservation Potential of Yards in
Brazilian Tropical Cities.- 18 Agrobiodiversity conservation in the urban
context and the role of indigenous peoples and local communities.- 19
Urbanites backyard Garden interaction and species preferences impound local
biodiversity in an Afro tropical metropolitan.- 20 Urban Agriculture Issues
and Challenges in Iran.- 21 Bats in tropical cities the ecology in of and for
cities.- 22 Ecological dynamics of frogs in tropical cities Uncovering bias
using a systematic literature review.
Dr. Fabio Angeoletto is a Brazilian biologist, journalist, and science communicator. He holds a PhD in Ecology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Currently, he is a professor and researcher in the Graduate Program in Geography at Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis, Brazil. His research aims to understand how human factors influence the biodiversity of tropical cities, and how urban ecology could be applied in urban planning and environmental management and in the conservation of urban tropical biodiversity.
Dr. Piotr Tryjanowski has been director of the Institute of Zoology at the Pozna University of Life Sciences in Poland since 2009. Currently is also a guest professor at the Institute of Advanced Study Technical University of Munich, Germany. His research has a wide geographical scope, which includes tropical countries. His scientific interests include behavioral ecology, climate impact, birds in rural landscapes, and urban ecology. Dr. Tryjanowski has been dedicated to studying how urbanization affects the phenology of birds, what are the impacts of urban and industrial infrastructure on birds and other animals. He published more than 250 scientific articles, which were cited more than 12,000 times. In November 2019 Professor Piotr Tryjanowski was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.
Dr. Mark Fellowes is a Full Professor of Zoology and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was previously at the University of Reading, UK. With a broad background in insect evolutionary ecology, his more recent work has focused on urban ecosystems, with a particular interest in how human decisions affect urban biodiversity. His projects have taken place in the UK, Brazil, India, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, and the USA, working on species ranging from weevils and aphids to sloth bears and leopards. In addition to his papers, Mark has published four popular science books in the 30-Second series, on Evolution, Biology, Ecology, and Zoology, the latter of which was chosen as one of the wildlife books of the year by BBC Wildlife magazine. Marks work has been widely covered in the press and broadcast media.
