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@article{1169773020031201, abstract = {Our central paradigm for urban ecology is that cities are emergent phenomena of local-scale, dynamic interactions among socioeconomic and biophysical forces. These complex interactions give rise to a distinctive ecology and to distinctive ecological forcing functions. Separately, both the natural and the social sciences have adopted complex system theory to study emergent phenomena, but attempts to integrate the natural and social sciences to understand human-dominated systems remain reductionist--these disciplines generally study humans and ecological processes as separate phenomena. Here we argue that if the natural and social sciences remain within their separate domains, they cannot explain how human-dominated ecosystems emerge from interactions between humans and ecological processes. We propose an integrated framework to test formal hypotheses about how human-dominated ecosystems evolve from those interactions. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR Copyright of Bioscience is the property of Amer}, author = {Alberti, Marina and Marzluff, John M. and Bradley, Gordon and Ryan, Clare and Shulenberger, Eric and Zumbrunnen, Craig}, citeulike-article-id = {2664914}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.biology.duke.edu/wilson/EcoSysServices/papers/AlbertiEtal2003.pdf}, journal = {Bioscience}, keywords = {biotic, communities, ecology, environmental, history, natural, sciences, social, urban, urban\_ecology}, number = {12}, posted-at = {2008-04-14 01:51:30}, priority = {0}, title = {Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems.}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11697730&site=ehost-live}, volume = {53}, year = {20031201} }

TY - JOUR ID - 1169773020031201 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2664914 N2 - Our central paradigm for urban ecology is that cities are emergent phenomena of local-scale, dynamic interactions among socioeconomic and biophysical forces. These complex interactions give rise to a distinctive ecology and to distinctive ecological forcing functions. Separately, both the natural and the social sciences have adopted complex system theory to study emergent phenomena, but attempts to integrate the natural and social sciences to understand human-dominated systems remain reductionist--these disciplines generally study humans and ecological processes as separate phenomena. Here we argue that if the natural and social sciences remain within their separate domains, they cannot explain how human-dominated ecosystems emerge from interactions between humans and ecological processes. We propose an integrated framework to test formal hypotheses about how human-dominated ecosystems evolve from those interactions. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR Copyright of Bioscience is the property of Amer IS - 12 JF - Bioscience TI - Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems. VL - 53 KW - biotic KW - communities KW - ecology KW - environmental KW - history KW - natural KW - sciences KW - social KW - urban KW - urban_ecology AU - Alberti, Marina AU - Marzluff, John AU - Bradley, Gordon AU - Ryan, Clare AU - Shulenberger, Eric AU - Zumbrunnen, Craig PY - 20031201/// UR - http://www.biology.duke.edu/wilson/EcoSysServices/papers/AlbertiEtal2003.pdf ER -