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The Biology of Urban Environments (Paperback)
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The Biology of Urban Environments (Paperback)
Series: Biology of Habitats Series
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How do plants, animals, and humans manage to survive and adapt to
the urban environment? This book provides a comprehensive coverage
of biological matters related to urban environments presenting both
the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, and practical
examples required to understand and address the challenges
presented by this novel environment. The Biology of Urban
Environments focusses on urban denizens: species (both domesticated
and non-domesticated) that live for all or part of their life cycle
in towns and cities. The biology of household plants and companion
animals is discussed alongside that of species that have become
feral or have not been domesticated. Temporal and spatial
distribution patterns are set out and generalizations are made
while exceptions are also discussed. The various strategies used
and the genotypic, phenotypic, and behavioural adaptions of plants
and animals in the face of the challenges presented by urban
environments are explained. The final two chapters contain a
discussion of the impacts of urban environments on human biology
and suggestions on how this understanding might be used to address
the increasing human health burden associated with illnesses that
are characteristic of urbanites in the early twenty-first century.
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