Volume 3: December 2005
SPECIAL FEATURE
Birds in the Urban Environment
Entire Issue PDF (210 pages, 13 MB)
Nesting Success and Life-History Attributes of Bird Communities Along an Urbanization Gradient
Joseph A. Reale¹ and Robert B. Blair²
¹ City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, P.O. Box 791, Boulder, CO 80306
² Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, 200 Hodson Hall, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 (address at time of research: Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056)
Urban Bird Diversity as an Indicator of Social Diversity and Economic Inequality in Vancouver, British Columbia
Stephanie J. Melles
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G5
Microhabitat Selection and Singing Behavior Patterns of Male House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) in Urban Parks in a Heavily Urbanized Landscape in the Western U.S.
Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Rachael Poston, Karin De Collibus, Timothy Morgan, Bret Bastain, Cyndi Martin, Kacy Jones, and Ronald Treminio
Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-3702.
Using Citizen Science in Urban Bird Studies
Rachel E. McCaffrey
School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Avian Response to Restoration of Urban Tidal Marshes in the Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey
Alison Seigel,¹ Colleen Hatfield,² and Jean Marie Hartman³
¹Rutgers University, Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, 1 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
²California State University, Department of Biological Sciences, 400 West First Street, Chico, CA 95929 (address at time of research: Rutgers University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
³ Rutgers University, Department of Landscape Architecture, 93 Lipman Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
History of the Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) in New York City, 1867–2005
Robert DeCandido
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, 410 Summer Valley Road, Orwigsburg, PA 17961
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE...
Bringing the Urban Environment Into the Classroom: Learning From an Estuarine Mesocosm
James C. Sullivan,¹ Theresa O'Neill,² and John R. Finnerty¹
¹ Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02135
² Odyssey High School, South Boston, MA
Benthic Communities in Spartina alterniflora– and Phragmites australis–Dominated Salt Marshes in the Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey
Catherine E. Yuhas,¹ Jean Marie Hartman,² and Judith S. Weis³
¹ New Jersey Sea Grant College Extension Program, New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program Office, 290 Broadway, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10007
² Rutgers University, 93 Lipman Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
³ Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, 141 Smith Hall, Newark, NJ 07102
The Changing Flora of the New York Metropolitan Region
Steven E. Clemants and Gerry Moore
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Photo: Fledgling eastern screech-owls in Central Park, New York City. © Deborah Allen