Urban Food Webs: Predators, Prey, And the People Who Feed Them

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Volume

87

Issue

4

Publisher

Ecological Society of America

Publication Date

10-2006

Journal Article Version

Version of Record

First Page

387

Last Page

393

Abstract

A prevailing image of the city is of the steel and concrete downtown skyline. The more common experience of urban residents, however, is a place of irrigated and fertilized green spaces, such as yards, gardens, and parks, surrounding homes and businesses where people commonly feed birds, squirrels, and other wildlife. Within these highly human-modified environments, researchers are becoming increasingly curious about how fundamental ecological phenomena play out, such as the feeding relationships among species. While food webs have long provided a tool for organizing information about feeding relationships and energy flows through natural habitats, they have not been applied to urban ecosystems until recently (Faeth et al. 2005).

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