urban ecology (biology)

"Content-rich photographs and accessible text combine to guide readers as they discover the often overlooked ecosystems found outside their own back doors! Children will be fascinated to learn more about the animals, insects, and plants they often take for granted, including squirrels, skunks, bees, and dandelions."--.

Every backyard is its own habitat for many different living things. Readers learn how these living things are connected as they pass energy to one another. Plants, insects, mammals, and other creatures are linked through backyard food chains, and, as readers will see, these food chains come together to form a large backyard food web. A helpful food web diagram is presented alongside engaging text and fact boxes. Readers see even the tiniest backyard critters up close through colorful, detailed photographs.

Introduces the plants, insects, birds, and mammals that make up the ecosystem of a city and its suburbs.

An introduction to compost heaps that explains how they are made, what types of insects live in them, and why they are beneficial.

Describes the different kinds of plants and animals that can be found in urban areas.

Text, colorful photographs, and illustrations explore the wildlife habitat found in ordinary neighborhoods, and suggests activities for examining various life forms.

Text and photographs describe less-than-pleasant and unexpected habitats and the animals that live in them, focusing on garbage cans and landfills, and discussing seagulls, rats, pigeons, flies, and cockroaches.

Text and photographs describe less-than-pleasant and unexpected habitats and the animals that live in them, focusing on streets and alleys, and discussing rats, stray cats, raccoons, cockroaches, scavenging birds, and squirrels.