Global Change and the Ecology of Cities Export

@article{citeulike:2353319, abstract = {Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and hydrosystems locally to regionally, and urban waste discharge affects local to global biogeochemical cycles and climate. For urbanites, however, global environmental changes are swamped by dramatic changes in the local environment. Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects. Cities themselves present both the problems and solutions to sustainability challenges of an increasingly urbanized world. 10.1126/science.1150195}, author = {Grimm, Nancy B. and Faeth, Stanley H. and Golubiewski, Nancy E. and Redman, Charles L. and Wu, Jianguo and Bai, Xuemei and Briggs, John M.}, citeulike-article-id = {2353319}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150195}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5864/756}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18258902}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18258902}, day = {8}, doi = {10.1126/science.1150195}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {biology, ecology, environment, review}, month = {February}, number = {5864}, pages = {756--760}, posted-at = {2009-02-05 08:11:12}, priority = {0}, title = {Global Change and the Ecology of Cities}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150195}, volume = {319}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2353319 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2353319 N2 - Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and hydrosystems locally to regionally, and urban waste discharge affects local to global biogeochemical cycles and climate. For urbanites, however, global environmental changes are swamped by dramatic changes in the local environment. Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects. Cities themselves present both the problems and solutions to sustainability challenges of an increasingly urbanized world. 10.1126/science.1150195 IS - 5864 JF - Science EP - 760 TI - Global Change and the Ecology of Cities VL - 319 SP - 756 KW - biology KW - ecology KW - environment KW - review AU - Grimm, Nancy AU - Faeth, Stanley AU - Golubiewski, Nancy AU - Redman, Charles AU - Wu, Jianguo AU - Bai, Xuemei AU - Briggs, John PY - 2008/02/08/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150195 ER -