Ecology of Tropical Cities: Natural and Social Sciences Applied to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity

ISBN-13: 9783031480119 / Angielski

Fabio Angeoletto; Piotr Tryjanowski; Mark D. E. Fellowes

Spis treści

FOREWORD: Professor Steward Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, New York

Introduction: The Ecology and Biodiversity of Tropical Cities Are as Important as Unknown

Part I

1. An Overview of Urbanization in the Tropics and its Positive and Negative Impacts on Biological Diversity

2. Urban Ecology in the Century of Uncertainty: The Challenge for Tropical Cities

3. Latin America: Where Urbanization and Poverty Peak Together with Biodiversity?

4. Urban Deforestation in Amazon Cities – Unsustainable Forest Urbanization Exposes the Loss of Urban Ecosystem Services and Urban Inequalities

5. Immigrants and the Demise of Wildlife in East Africa’s Growing Cities

6. Urban evolution in tropical cities

7. Small Forest Fragments Maintain Native Small Mammals in Rapidly Expanding Tropical Cities

8. A multi-scale and multi-taxa framework to assess biodiversity responses to landscape urbanization

9. Functional diversity and the functional traits of the tropical urban fauna

10.Revisiting Butterfly Diversity in Kolkata India: Conservation from Urban Perspectives

11. The Role of Urban Tributaries as a Conservation Strategy for the Pantanal Biome 

12. Potential urbanization effects on small-scale fisheries in tropical rivers

13. Loss of biodiversity in marine tropical regions caused by unplanned coastal urbanization

 

Part II

14. Cultural, Environmental, Socioeconomic, Political and Urbanistic Factors Shape the Small but Immense Urban Ecosystems

15. Human Dimensions Modulate Commensalism in Tropical Megacities:

16. The Case of an Urban Raptor in Delhi (India)

17. Vale Encantado Park: social mobilization movement for a metropolitan conservation area

18. Virtues and Limitations of Master Plans for the Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Cities

19. Green and Gray Grids: Urban network, Natural Resources and the Construction of a Sustainable Landscape in Tropical Cities From Brazil

20. Opposing Urban Ecology? The Restrictions of Morphology and Architectural Typology to Urban Forestry

21. Possible Implications of Chinese Concept ‘Eco-civilization’ in China Pakistan Economic Corridor 22. (CPEC): highlighting priority areas

23. How to Maintain High Biodiversity in Tropical Urban Centers

24. A Review of Urban Agriculture Situation in the South and Southeast of Iran

25. Ecology, Conservation Educational and Therapeutic Importance of Raptors in High-altitude Cities (La Paz, Bolivia)

26. Diversity and human perceptions of butterflies in Southeast and East Asia’s megacities: Broad patterns and standard methods of investigation

27. Urban Forestry and Forest City Agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta, Southern China

28. Impacts of Land Use Change on Singapore’s Butterflies and How Citizen Scientists Can Help in Conservation Efforts

29. Urban greenspaces and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Africa: Case studies, Lessons Learned and Ways Forward

 

Part III

30 Jungles of Stone and Chlorophyll: the Staggering Plant Diversity in Tropical Cities

 

31. Urban Green Spaces in Neotropical Cities: What We Really Know About Plant Ecology Within Biodiversity Hotspots?

32. Little variation of green spaces in the urban and suburban area of Kinshasa

33. Urban Trees of Brazilian Cities: Composition, Similarity and Consequences to Urban Infrastructure

34. The Potential of Yards for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Tropical Cities

35. Urbanites-backyard Garden Interaction and Species Preferences Impound Local Biodiversity in an Afro-tropical Metropolitan Region

36. Agrobiodiversity conservation in urban contexts and the role of indigenous peoples and local communities

37. Tree Diversity in an Urban Industrial Area: Implications for Urban Greening and Conservation

38. Usage of Vegetal for Habitat (UVH), a new term for a better assessment of urban biodiversity: case study in Kinshasa City

 

Part IV

39. Are Tropical Urban Ecosystems Friendly to Fauna?

40. Frugivory and seed dispersal in tropical urban areas: a review

41. Pollinator Diversity in Tropical Urban Ecosystems

42. Urban Bird Assemblages: Characterization Based on Diversity and Ecological Network

43. Bats in tropical cities: synthesis and future directions

44. Land snail diversity of Kolkata, India: potential for sustenance of urban green

45. Insects in the City: Patterns of Biodiversity, Interactions and Ecosystem Services in Urban Green Areas

46. Ecosystem Services in Tropical cities: Insects Safeguard the Function

47. What do Butterflies Tell us About Tropical Urban Biodiversity?

 

Part V

48. Applied Knowledge from Natural and Social Sciences is Essential for the Conservation of Urban (and Global) Biodiversity

49. Social-ecological Dynamics, Ecosystem Services Uses, and Governance of Green and Blue Infrastructure in Bengaluru, India

50. Long Term Standardized Biodiversity Monitoring Programs in the Cities and Its Importance as Analytic and Managing Tools

51. Low-cost Method for Invasive Species Detection in Urban Environments – Example of Drone-based Workflow Application

52. Landscape Design to Mitigate the Urban Climate: Case of São Paulo, Santos and Campinas

53. Environmental Function of Squares as a Conservation Strategy for Urban Biodiversity

54. Evaluation of Urban Green Areas: A Methodological Proposition

55. Domestic arboreous vegetation (DAV), a new term for a better assessment of urban trees: case study of Kinshasa city

56. The Ecological Sensitivity of Cities: Defining a System of Green Corridors

57. Landscape Metrics Applied to Urban Green Space Analysis Aiming to Detect Habitat Availability

58. Cooling Energy Use and Microclimate in Urban Ecosystems

59. Rurality in relation to the urban-rural border: stories from a niche in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá

60. The Contribution of Environmental Journalism to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity: Information, Education and Awareness

61. Tropical Cities Need To Be More Permeable to Biodiversity, and This Implies Profound Social, Cultural and Political Changes

O autorze

Dr. Fabio Angeoletto is a Brazilian biologist and journalist. 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 Poznań University of Life Sciences in Poland since 2009. Currently is also 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 Full Professor of Zoology and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Royal Holloway, University of London, which he recently joined. He is also visiting professor at the University of Reading, UK, where he was previously based for 23 years. 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. Mark’s work has been widely covered in the press and broadcast media.

Blurb

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities incubate new ideas and technologies, creating the conditions 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 inequity embedded in tropical cities, and explores how this inequity also materializes in biodiversity, with poor neighbourhoods of tropical cities lacking sufficient access to green space, and therefore less 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 in 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 cities.