Urban Habitats -- Natural History, Volume 6, Number 1

Volume 6: In Press

Spring Peeper - Pseudacris crucifer

 

Frog Call Surveys in an Urban Wetland Complex, the Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey, in 2006

by Erik Kiviat

 

Japanese stilt grass (Microstegium vimineum), a nonnative invasive grass, provides alternative habitat for native frogs in a suburban forest

by Christopher Nagy1,2, Seth Aschen¹, Rod Christie1, and Mark Weckel1,2

1Mianus River Gorge Preserve, 167 Mianus River Road, Bedford, NY 10506

2American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

 

Vegetative Roofs as Reconciled Habitats: Rapid Assays Beyond Mere Species Counts

by Redi Coffman and Tom Waite

 

Baltimore Birdscape Study: Identifying Habitat and Land-Cover Variables for an Urban Bird Monitoring Project

by Charles H. Nilon1, Paige S. Warren2, and Jordan Wolf3

1 Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211

2 Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003

3 Flushing International High School, 144-80 Barclay Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355

 

Avian-Habitat Relationships in Urban and Suburban Tidal Marshes of Connecticut

by Kristin Schaumburg, William M. Giuliano, and Gail A. Langellotto

1 Louis Calder Center—Biological Field Station, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, 53 Whippoorwill Road, Armonk, NY 10504

2 Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, PO Box 110430, Gainesville, FL 32611

3 Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, 4017 Ag and Life Sciences Building. Corvallis, OR 97331

 

Morphological Variation in the Seed of Gray Birch (Betula populifolia): The Effects of Soil-Metal Contamination

by Frank J. Gallagher, Ildiko Pechmann, Bernard Isaacson, and Jason Grabosky

 

Passaic River Symposium: Fate and Transport Modeling of Sediment Contaminants in the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary

by Robin E. Landeck Miller, Kevin J. Farley, James R. Wands, Robert Santore, Aaron D. Redman, and Nicholas B. Kim

 

A Human Ecology of Urban Gully Restoration: A New Zealand Example

by Mairi Jay (corresponding author) and Ottilie Stolte

 

Evaluating Restoration Success in Urban Forest Plantings in Hamilton, New Zealand

by D. Bruce MacKay, Priscilla M. Wehi, and Bruce D. Clarkson

 

Photo of Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) © Nick Scobel