Advancing urban ecology toward a science of cities bioscience. Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects. For urbanites, however, global environmental changes are swamped by. Briggs1 urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. The following resources related to this article are available online at.
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