Nature All Around Us A Guide to Urban Ecology

Name: Nature All Around Us A Guide to Urban Ecology
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ISBN: 9780226922751

ISBN-10: 0226922758

ISBN-13: 9780226922751

Edition: 2012

Authors: Beatrix Beisner, Christian Messier, Luc-Alain Giraldeau

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It’s easy to stand in awe of a city’s impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, all concrete, steel, and glass. But even the asphalt jungle is not all asphalt—a sidewalk’s cracks are filled with nature, if we know where and how to look. To aid us in this quest isNature All Around Us,which will help us to recognize (and look after) the natural world we traipse through in our daily lives.Nature All Around Ususes the familiar—such as summer Sundays humming with lawn mowers, gray squirrels foraging in planters, and flocks of…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction: What is Ecology?



Around the House and Garden



Apple at My Core



Arboreal Aqueducts



Lawn Lions



Praise for Lazy Gardeners



The Evolution of Food



Hey, Taxi!



Social Life



Bathroom Drama



Winter Warmth



In the Neighborhood



The Secret Life of Ponds



A Life of Extremes



Prowling Predator



Piegontown



Animal Intelligentsia



Squirrelly Neighbors



From the Chimney Tops



Long Lifelines



The Metropolis



Canary in the City



Wing Beats



Enough Already!



Darwin's Sweet Tooth?



A Breath of Fresh Air



Successful Little Birds



Opportunistic Gulls



Urban Roots


Conclusion


Glossary