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Using GIS to Investigate Urban Forestry
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Margaret Workman and Kimberly Frye - Depaul University Urban forests broadly include urban parks, street trees, landscaped boulevards, public gardens, river and coastal promenades, greenways, river corridors, wetlands, nature preserves, natural areas, shelterbelts of trees, and working trees at industrial brownfield sites. The history of urban trees begins with trees as landscape embellishment. Today, urban trees are seen as essential components of city infrastructure...
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Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility
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2014
This paper describes the design, construction, and function of a 1,000 m2 facility containing 24 individual 33.6 m2 field plots equipped for measuring total runoff volumes with time and collection of runoff subsamples at selected intervals for quantification of chemical constituents in the runoff water from simulated home lawns.
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Cities As Interfaces of Zoonotic Hazard Emergence: Development of the New York City Tick and Wildlife Urban Surveillance System
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2026
There is a critical need to monitor how ticks and their wildlife hosts respond to urbanization. This protocol outlines the steps for developing a standardized Tick and Wildlife Urban Surveillance System that will enable adaptive management in response to emerging tick-borne hazards in urban environments.
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Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation
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2023
Density gradient ultracentrifugation is a common technique used to isolate and purify biomolecules and cell structures. This technique exploits the fact that, in suspension, particles that are more dense than the solvent will sediment, while those that are less dense will float. A high-speed ultracentrifuge is used to accelerate this process in order to separate biomolecules within a density gradient, which can be established by layering liquids of decreasing density in a centrifuge tube. The...
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Façade-Level Monitoring of CO2 Variability under Urban Heat Island Conditions using Low-Cost Sensor Data Loggers
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2025
A simple, effective environmental monitoring protocol to measure temperature, humidity, wind speed, and carbon dioxide variations across urban surfaces with differing sunlight exposure influenced by the urban heat island effect.
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Urban development changes biological conditions through several linked pathways. More impervious surface can reduce or fragment vegetated habitat, while altered vegetation and habitat structure change available resources. Temperature and pollution add environmental pressures, and shifts in resource availability can favor some organisms over others. Together, these changes help explain why species distributions and community composition vary across the gradient.
Responses can occur at several biological levels, including distribution, behavior, physiology, and community composition. A population may differ from others not only in where it occurs, but also in how it behaves or functions under changed urban conditions. Examining these multiple responses gives biologists a more complete picture of how development influences biological systems.
Urban and rural sites can differ for reasons unrelated to development, so comparisons require attention to natural environmental variation. Accounting for those differences helps researchers distinguish effects associated with urbanization from other influences on populations and ecosystems. This strengthens interpretation of observed biological patterns and makes conclusions more useful for conservation assessment and planning.
A comparison can span densely developed areas, suburbs, and less disturbed landscapes while recording the ecological conditions that differ among them. Researchers then examine populations, ecosystems, or community composition at these contrasting levels of human influence. Relating biological patterns to variables such as vegetation, impervious surfaces, temperature, pollution, habitat structure, and resources helps identify possible development-associated effects.
These studies can reveal how biological communities and populations vary with increasing human influence. They may document changes in species distributions, behavior, physiology, or community composition while also linking those patterns to altered environmental conditions. The resulting comparisons support biodiversity assessment by showing which biological features change across urban, suburban, and less disturbed settings.
Findings from these comparisons can guide conservation planning, habitat restoration, and biodiversity assessment across developed and less disturbed landscapes. They also help identify approaches for designing cities that better support wildlife and ecosystem function. Because the framework connects development-related conditions with biological responses, it provides context for evaluating where habitat improvements or planning strategies may be most relevant.