The Biology of Urban Environments
暫譯: 城市環境的生物學
James, Philip
- 出版商: Oxford University
- 出版日期: 2018-09-26
- 售價: $4,900
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,655
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 320
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 0198827237
- ISBN-13: 9780198827238
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商品描述
How do plants, animals, and humans manage to survive and adapt to the urban environment? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of biological matters related to urban environments presenting both the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, and practical examples required to understand
and address the challenges presented by this novel environment. The Biology of Urban Environments focusses on urban denizens: species (both domesticated and non-domesticated) that live for all or part of their life cycle in towns and cities. The biology of household plants and companion animals is discussed alongside that of species that have become feral or
have not been domesticated. Temporal and spatial distribution patterns are set out and generalizations are made while exceptions are also discussed. The various strategies used and the genotypic, phenotypic, and behavioural adaptions of plants and animals in the face of the challenges presented by
urban environments are explained. The final two chapters contain a discussion of the impacts of urban environments on human biology and suggestions on how this understanding might be used to address the increasing human health burden associated with illnesses that are characteristic of urbanites in
the early twenty-first century.
and address the challenges presented by this novel environment. The Biology of Urban Environments focusses on urban denizens: species (both domesticated and non-domesticated) that live for all or part of their life cycle in towns and cities. The biology of household plants and companion animals is discussed alongside that of species that have become feral or
have not been domesticated. Temporal and spatial distribution patterns are set out and generalizations are made while exceptions are also discussed. The various strategies used and the genotypic, phenotypic, and behavioural adaptions of plants and animals in the face of the challenges presented by
urban environments are explained. The final two chapters contain a discussion of the impacts of urban environments on human biology and suggestions on how this understanding might be used to address the increasing human health burden associated with illnesses that are characteristic of urbanites in
the early twenty-first century.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
植物、動物和人類如何在城市環境中生存和適應？本書全面探討與城市環境相關的生物學問題，提供了理解和應對這一新環境所帶來挑戰所需的概念性和理論基礎，以及實際範例。
《城市環境的生物學》專注於城市居民：在城鎮和城市中生活的物種（包括馴化和非馴化物種），無論是其生命週期的全部或部分。家庭植物和伴侶動物的生物學與已經野化或尚未馴化的物種的生物學一起進行討論。書中闡述了時間和空間的分佈模式，並進行了概括，同時也討論了例外情況。解釋了植物和動物在面對城市環境所帶來的挑戰時所使用的各種策略，以及它們的基因型、表型和行為適應。最後兩章討論了城市環境對人類生物學的影響，並提出了如何利用這一理解來應對與二十一世紀初城市居民特有的疾病相關的人類健康負擔日益增加的建議。
作者簡介
Philip James, Professor of Ecology, University of Salford, UK Philip James is Professor of Ecology in the School of Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Salford. In addition to his post at the University of Salford, Philip has honorary positions at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge. Prior to The Biology of Urban Environments Philip has
previously co-authored two books on Urban Ecology and has published the results of his own, and collaborative research, in journal articles. Philip is a Fellow of the Royal society of Biology and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
菲利普·詹姆斯，英國薩爾福德大學生態學教授
菲利普·詹姆斯是薩爾福德大學環境與生命科學學院的生態學教授。除了在薩爾福德大學的職位外，菲利普還在曼徹斯特大學和劍橋大學擔任榮譽職位。在撰寫《城市環境的生物學》之前，菲利普曾共同撰寫過兩本有關城市生態學的書籍，並在期刊文章中發表了他自己及合作研究的結果。菲利普是皇家生物學會的院士以及特許生態與環境管理學會的院士。
