Given the large-scale anthropogenic alteration of natural habitats, ecological restoration is
emerging as one of the most important disciplines in environmental science. Once habitats …

Current views of anthropogenic environments emphasize the extreme novelty of urban and
industrial ecosystems. Proponents of reconciliation ecology argue that we need to use such …

In an inexorably urbanizing world, green roofs could be an interesting tool to conciliate the
greening of cities with ecological services. Studies on a large number of sites are necessary …

Despite the increasing evidence that post-mining sites often provide biodiversity refuges in
anthropogenically impacted landscapes, thus offering valuable analogues of natural …

Questions (1) How do seres differ with respect to vegetation changes?(2) What are the
directions of succession?(3) How do species numbers change?(4) How do target species, ie …

Urban Ecology: An Introduction seeks to open the reader's mind and eyes to the way in
which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for …

Recent land use changes, namely the intensification of agriculture and forestry as well as
the abandonment of traditional grassland management methods, have resulted in the …

Highly disturbed areas such as surface‐mined land provide a great challenge for ecological
restoration. The goal is to identify appropriate restoration approaches in a continuum …

Despite a century of study by ecologists, recovery following disturbances (succession) is not
fully understood. This book provides the first global synthesis that compares plant …

Management of restored areas requires ecologically meaningful spatial data providing
objective measures of restoration success. Understanding relationships between species …