Ecology of Tropical Cities, 2024
Natural and Social Sciences Applied to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive growth, but this is rarely seen. Urban ecology, an essential field that supports planning based on environmental perspectives, is a new science in tropical countries. This book discusses the social inequity embedded in tropical cities, and explores how this inequity also materializes in biodiversity, with poor neighbourhoods of tropical cities lacking sufficient access to green space, and therefore reduced access to the benefits of nature, and poor support for biodiversity. With the current biodiversity crisis, the traditional approach to protecting pristine areas is insufficient. The chapters in this volume illustrate how tropical cities can act as spaces for biological conservation. Ecological literacy can help cities reconcile the needs of both people and of nature.

This book compiles studies by experts from more than 100 institutions and 29 countries in the ecology and biodiversity of tropical cities at multiple scales, and applies their studies to urban planning and management. The audience for this book includes researchers, students and professionals working on environmental, social, economic, cultural, political, architectural and development projects in urban areas, offering a deep and timely discussion of their influence on the fauna and flora of tropical cities. 

1 The Ecology and Biodiversity of Tropical Cities Are as Important as Unknown.- 2 Could cities be an object of study for Ecology.- 3 Green Forest Gray Cities in the Amazon.- 4 Growing cities and shrinking fish Potential urbanization effects on fish and fisheries in tropical rivers.- 5 Latin America Where urbanization and poverty peak together with biodiversity.- 6 Vale Encantado Park Popular mobilization for a conservation area in a metropolitan environment.- 7 People animals and waste form systemic links within tropical cities Case of an urban raptor in Delhi India.- 8 Urban Green Spaces in Neotropical Cities Biodiversity Conservation and Menaces.- 9 Green and gray grids urban network natural resources and the construction of a sustainable landscape in northern Paraná state Brazil.- 10 Loss of seaweed biodiversity in marine tropical regions caused by unplanned coastal urbanization.- 11 Urban biological evolution in tropical cities.- 12 Exploring urban greenspace and biodiversity in tropical Africa.- 13 Urban Forestry and Forest City Agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta Southern China.- 14 Tree diversity in an urban industrial area implications for urban greening and conservation.- 15 Composition And Structure Of Urban Tree Communities In Brazilian Cities.- 16 Opposing Urban Ecology The Restrictions Of Morphology And Architectural Typology To Urban Forestry.- 17 Urban Biodiversity Hotspots Harnessing the Conservation Potential of Yards in Brazilian Tropical Cities.- 18 Agrobiodiversity conservation in the urban context and the role of indigenous peoples and local communities.- 19 Urbanites backyard Garden interaction and species preferences impound local biodiversity in an Afro tropical metropolitan.- 20 Urban Agriculture Issues and Challenges in Iran.- 21 Bats in tropical cities the ecology in of and for cities.- 22 Ecological dynamics of frogs in tropical cities Uncovering bias using a systematic literature review.- 23 A global review of urban pollinators and implications for maintaining pollination services in tropical cities.- 24 Insects In The City Patterns Of Biodiversity Interactions And Ecosystem Services In Urban Green Areas.- 25 Revisiting butterfly diversity in Kolkata India conservation from urban perspectives.- 26 What do butterflies tell us about tropical and subtropical urban biodiversity.- 27 Ecosystem services provided by insects in tropical cities the role of bees dung beetles and odonates.- 28 Land snail diversity of Kolkata India potential for sustenance of urban green.- 29 Give Urban Biodiversity A Chance A Forest Fragment Harbors High Bird Species Richness In A Tropical City.- 30 Birds of prey from high altitude cities Bolivia Between extreme limitations and adaptations winners.- 31 Urban bird assemblages characterization based on diversity and ecological network.- 32 Urban Common Swift Apus apus nest box projects in Central Israel a case study of environmental education with urban wildlife.- 33 Ecosystem services of Leopards Panthera pardus fusca to the conurbation of Jaipur India.- 34 Functional diversity and the functional traits of the tropical urban fauna.- 35 Frugivory and seed dispersal in tropical urban areas a review.- 36 GLUEing the world the GLobal Urban Evolution project and its importance to urban biodiversity conservation.- 37 A low cost method to detect invasive species in the urban environment an example of a drone based workflow application.- 38 Evaluation of Urban Green Areas a Methodological Proposition.- 39 Social ecological dynamics of green and blue infrastructure in the Indian megacity of Bengaluru.- 40 Environmental Quality Indicators in Brazilian Squares as a Conservation Strategy for Urban Biodiversity.- 41 Patch and Landscape Metrics applied to Urban Green Space Analysis aiming to detect Habitat availability to Birds and Bats in Ponta Grossa a medium sized city in Brazil.- 42 Using landscape design to mitigate urban climate Campinas Case.- 43 Environmental journalisms contribution to the conservation of urban biodiversity information education and increasing awareness.- 44 Perpetuating  protection of Brazils Legal Reserve Area and the future of tropical cities in the Brazilian Amazon.- 45 The ecological sensitivity of cities defining a system of green corridors.- 46 Public Policies And Biodiversity Conservation In Conflict In A Brazilian Agribusiness City.

Dr. Fabio Angeoletto is a Brazilian biologist and journalist. He holds a PhD in Ecology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Currently he is a professor and researcher in the Graduate Program in Geography at Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis, Brazil. His research aims to understand how human factors influence the biodiversity of tropical cities, and how urban ecology could be applied in urban planning and environmental management and in the conservation of urban tropical biodiversity.

Dr. Piotr Tryjanowski has been director of the Institute of Zoology at the Poznań University of Life Sciences in Poland since 2009. Currently is also guest professor at the Institute of Advanced Study Technical University of Munich, Germany. His research has a wide geographical scope, which includes tropical countries. His scientific interests include behavioral ecology, climate impact, birds in rural landscapes and urban ecology. Dr. Tryjanowski has been dedicated to studying how urbanization affects the phenology of birds, what are the impacts of urban and industrial infrastructure on birds and other animals. He published more than 250 scientific articles, which were cited more than 12,000 times. In November 2019 Professor Piotr Tryjanowski was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.

Dr.  Mark  Fellowes  is Full Professor of Zoology and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was previously at the University of Reading, UK. With a broad background in insect evolutionary ecology, his more recent work has focused on urban ecosystems, with a particular interest in how human decisions affect urban biodiversity. His projects have taken place in the UK, Brazil, India, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and the USA, working on species ranging from weevils and aphids to sloth bears and leopards. In add