Two Ways to Discover Disturbance
Ecological disturbance is often defined as an event that disrupts the structure of a specific system (Pickett & White, 1985). This kind of material or physical disruption is important because […]
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The Invisible in the City
Much that happens in cities — urban areas more broadly — is not obvious to the naked eye or to casual observation. The invisible things in urban social-ecological systems represent […]
The Science of Connection in a Disconnected Place
The news from Baltimore has been sad and disturbing over the past few weeks. Urban ecologists, like all ecologists, I think, love the places where they work. So I must […]
A Disturbance Primer for Urban Systems
Basics The fundamental definition of disturbance is a physical disruption of the structure of a specified system. The term may also be applied to the specific event that causes that […]
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