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Workshop Presentations

Breuste, Jürgen
Strategies and management to develop urban nature (297 KB))

Eason, Charles, J. Dixon and M. van Roon
Mainstreaming low impact urban design and development (LIUDD): A platform for preserving and restoring urban biodiversity (154 KB)

Ignatieva, Maria
Homogeneity of landscape design language in the European environment: Searching for ecological identity in Europe, USA and New Zealand (309 KB)

McCarthy, Michael
Using models to compare the ecology of cities (113 KB)

Muerk, Colin D.
Lessons and opportunities from experience as an ecological adviser to the Christchurch City Council, New Zealand (572 KB)

Nilon, Charles H.
Approaches to comparative studies of urban fauna (1.0 MB)

Pouyat, Richard V. and Margaret Carriero
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in urban ecosystems (1.5 MB)

Wittig, Rüdiger
What is the object of urban ecology - Determining the demarcation of the research area

 

Cilliers, Sarel, Ernst Drewes, Henk Bouwman, Pieter Theron and Leon Van Rensburg
Settled areas in North-west Province, South Africa: Any use for comparative urban ecological research? (188 KB)
Hochuli, Dieter
Terrestrial invertebrates in urban environments: Can they be used to reveal disruptions to fundamental ecological processes? (315 KB)

Löfvenhaft, Katarina
Tools to assess human impact on biotope resilience and biodiversity in urban planning. Examples from Stockholm, Sweden (259 KB)

McDonnell, Mark J. and Amy K. Hahs
Comparative analysis of the ecology of cities and towns: opportunities and limitations (1.6 MB)

Niemelä, Jari and D. Johan Kotze
The contribution of comparative research to the development of theory in urban ecology (196 KB)

Pickett, Steward
Current approaches and potential for comparative studies (52 KB)

Snep, R. P. H., W. Timmermans and R. G. M. Kwak
Applying landscape ecological principles to a fascinating landscape: The city (760 KB)

Wu, Jianguo
A landscape perspective on the ecology of cities (682 KB)

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