Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments

Preface.- Introduction (Murgui, E. & Hedblom, M.).- Section 1: GENERAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES.- Global patterns and drivers of urban birds (Aronson, M. et al.).- Birds and urbanization: Spatial and temporal patterns emerging from the southern Neotropics (Bellocq, I.).- The role of landscape scale factors in shaping the composition of urban birds communities (Litteral, J. & Shochat, E.).- Non-indigenous birds and urbanized environments (Sol, D.).- Mechanisms of behavioural changes in urban animals: the role of evolution and plasticity (Miranda, A.C.).- Section 2: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES.- Ornithological atlases of towns and cities in Europe (Luniak, M.).- Counting birds in urban areas (van Heezik, Y. & Seddon, P.).- Long-Term Urban Avian Research (Ficino, M. & Magle, S.).- Section 3: URBAN BIRD HABITATS MANAGEMENT.- Management of urban nature and its impact on bird fauna (Heyman, E. & Gunnarsson, B.).- Green infrastructure in urban areas: how does it affect bird populations? (Chiquet, C.).- Social and ecological factors determining the diversity of birds in residential landscapes (Goddard, M. & Leman, S.).- Facilitating Feathered Friends - Improving Avifauna Promotion in Post-construction Urban Planning Procedures (Daniels, G.).- The role of invasive plant species in urban avian conservation (Gleditsch, J.).- Birds and wastelands (Meffert, P.).- Section 4: ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS.- Pollutants in urbanized areas - direct and indirect effects on bird populations (Kekkonen, J.).- Going wild: Using light-loggers to investigate the effects of light pollution on wild animals (Dominoni, D.).- Bird diversity - panacea for human well-being in cities? (Hedblom, M. & Gunnarsson, B.).- Becoming citizens: avian adaptations to urban life (Macias, C., Suarez, M. & López, I.).- Section 5: URBAN BIRD CONSERVATION.- How to use monitoring data for conservation (Louwe, J.).- Indicators of the effects of the urban green infrastructure on birds (Herrando, S.).- Richness and species of conservation concern in parks of Italian towns (Sorace, A. & Gustin, M.).- Concluding remarks (Hedblom, M. & Murgui, E.).