Recent Publications

Journal Articles

In Press

Boone, C. G., E. M. Cook, S. J. Hall, N. B. Grimm, C. Raish, D. M. Finch, M. L. Nation and A. York. In press. A comparative gradient approach to understanding and managing urban ecosystems. Urban Ecosystems.

Metson, G., D. L. Childers and R. Aggarwal. In press. Efficiency through proximity: Changes in phosphorus cycling at the urban-agricultural interface of a rapidly urbanizing desert region. Journal of Industrial Ecology.

Trubl, P., T. Gburek, L. Miles and J. C. Johnson. In press. Black widows in an urban desert: Population variation in an arthropod pest across metropolitan Phoenix. Urban Ecosystems.

In Review

Abbott, J. K. and H. A. Klaiber. In review. The value of water as an urban club good: A matching approach to HOA-provided lakes. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Aggarwal, R., S. Guhathakurta, S. Grossman-Clarke and V. Lathey. In review. Do variation in heat islands in space and time influence household water use? A longitudinal study of single family residences in Phoenix. Water Resources Research.

Banville, M. J. and H. L. Bateman. In review. Urban and wildland herpetofauna communities and riparian microhabitats along the Salt River, Arizona. Urban Ecosystems.

Declet-Barreto, J., A. J. Brazel, W. T. Chow, C. A. Martin and S. L. Harlan. In review. Creating the park cool island in an arid city urban neighborhood: Vegetation and extreme heat in Phoenix, Arizona. Urban Ecosystems.

Dimitrova, R., N. Lurponglukana, H. H. Fernando, G. C. Runger, P. Hyde, B. C. Hedquist, J. Anderson, W. Bannister and W. Johnson. In review. Linking particulate matter (PM10) and childhood asthma in central Phoenix. Air Quality, Atmosphere, & Health.

Fokidis, H. B., R. Sparr, K. Sweazea and P. Deviche. In review. Modeling metabolic changes during the avian acute stress response using path analysis. Hormones and Metabolic Research.

Harris, E. M., C. Polsky, K. Larson, D. Martin, R. Garvoille, L. Ogden and J. Brumand. In review. Heterogeneity in residential landscape management: Evidence from suburban Boston, Miami, and Phoenix. Human Ecology.

Hummel, D., A. de Sherbinin, R. M. Aggarwal, K. Knight, J. Liu and L. Zulu. In review. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to population-environment research: Theory and methods. Population and Environment Review.

Johnson, J. C., L. Miles and P. Trubl. In review. Maternal effects on egg condition speed development but have no effect on spiderling cannibalism in the black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus). Evolution.

Johnson, J. C., L. Miles and P. Trubl. In review. Relaxed prey limitation typical of urban habitats has counter-intuitive effects on black widow fecundity and fitness. American Naturalist.

Kitchen, K., M. C. Andrade and J. C. Johnson. In review. Age differences, family origin and maternal investment explain juvenile cannibalism in the black widow spider better than kin selection. Animal Behaviour.

Lewis, D. B., J. D. Schade and N. B. Grimm. In review. Islands of soil fertility, urbanization, and cross-scale interactions in a desert landscape. Ecological Complexity.

Maliszewski, P. J., E. K. Larson and C. Perrings. In review. Valuing the reliability of electrical power infrastructure: A two stage hedonic approach. Energy Economics.

Musacchio, L. and J. Wu. In review. Developing synchronicity in urban ecology as sustainability science: Linking ecology, design, and planning. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Ruddell, D. In review. Extreme heat in Phoenix, AZ: A mixed method multi-scale analysis. Population and Environment.

Ruddell, D., D. Hoffman, O. Ahmad and A. Brazel. In review. An analysis of historical threshold temperatures for central Arizona: Phoenix (urban) and Gila Bend (desert). Climate Research.

Wutich, A., A. Brewis, A. York and R. Stotts. In review. Rules, norms, and injustice: A cross-cultural study of perceptions of justice in water institutions. Society and Natural Resources.

Wutich, A., A. York, A. Brewis, R. Stotts and C. Roberts. In review. Are cultural norms for justice in water institutions shared globally? Results from Fiji, Ecuador, Paraguay, New Zealand, and the U.S. Journal of Environmental Management.

York, A. M., S. N. Conley and J. Helepololei. In review. In land we trust: One hundred years of direct democracy on state trust land. Political Research Quarterly.

Zhang, S., A. M. York, C. G. Boone and M. Shrestha. In review. Methodological advances in spatial analysis of land fragmentation. The Professional Geographer.

2012

Bang, C., S. H. Faeth and J. L. Sabo. 2012. Control of arthropod abundances, richness and composition in a heterogeneous desert city. Ecological Monographs 82:85-100.

Chow, W. T. and A. J. Brazel. 2012. Assessing xeriscaping as a sustainable heat island mitigation approach for a desert city. Building and Environment 47:170-181.

Chow, W. T., D. Brennan and A. J. Brazel. 2012. Urban heat island research in Phoenix, Arizona: Theoretical contributions and policy applications. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 93:517-530. (link)

Chow, W. T., W. Chuang and P. Gober. 2012. Vulnerability to extreme heat in metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, temporal and demographic dimensions. The Professional Geographer 64:286-302.

Cook, E., S. J. Hall and K. Larson. 2012. Residential landscapes in an urban socio-ecological context: A synthesis of multi-scalar interactions between people and their home environment. Urban Ecosystems 15:19-52.

Fokidis, H. B. and P. Deviche. 2012. Brain arginine vasotocin (AVT)-like immunoreactivity differs between urban and desert Curve-billed Thrashers, Toxostoma curvirostre: Relationships with territoriality and stress physiology. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 79:84-97. (link)

Hartz, D. A., J. S. Golden, C. Sister, W. C. Chuang and A. J. Brazel. 2012. Climate and heat-related emergencies in Chicago, Illinois (2003-2006). International Journal of Biometeorology 56:71-83.

Koch, G. R., D. L. Childers, E. E. Gaiser and R. Price. 2012. Hydrological conditions control P loading and aquatic metabolism in an oligotrophic, subtropical estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 35:292-307.

Larson, E. K. and N. B. Grimm. 2012. Small-scale and extensive hydrogeomorphic modification and water redistribution in a desert city and implications for regional nitrogen removal. Urban Ecosystems 15:71-85.

Maliszewski, P. J., E. K. Larson and C. K. Perrings. 2012. Environmental determinants of unscheduled residential outages in the electrical power distribution of Phoenix, Arizona. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 99:161-171. (link)

Metson, G., R. L. Hale, D. I. Iwaniec, E. M. Cook, J. R. Gorman, C. Galletti and D. Childers. 2012. Phosphorus in Phoenix: A budget and spatial representation of phosphorus in an urban ecosystem. Ecological Applications 22:705-721. (link)

Ruddell, D., S. L. Harlan, S. Grossman-Clarke and G. Chowell. 2012. Scales of perception: Public awareness of regional and neighborhood climates. Climatic Change 111:581-607. (link)

Shrestha, M., A. York, C. Boone and S. Zhang. 2012. Land fragmentation due to rapid urbanization in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Analyzing the spatiotemporal patterns and drivers. Applied Geography 32:522-531.

Thompson, J., A. Wiek, F. Swanson, S. Carpenter, N. Fresco, T. Hollingsworth, T. Chapin, T. Spies and D. Foster. 2012. Scenario studies as a synthetic and integrative research activity for long-term ecological research. BioScience 62:367-376.

Turnbull, L., B. P. Wilcox, L. Belnap, S. Ravi, S. D Odorico, D. L. Childers, W. Gwenzi, G. Okin, J. Wainwright, K. Caylor and T. Sankey. 2012. Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem-state change in drylands. Ecohydrology 5:174-183.

Willcox, B. P., L. Turnbull, M. H. Young, C. J. Williams, S. Ravi, M. S. Seyfried, D. R. Bowling, R. L. Scott, M. J. Germino, T. G. Caldwell and J. Wainwright. 2012. Invasion of shrublands by exotic grasses: Ecohydrological consequences in cold versus warm deserts. Ecohydrology 5:160-173. (link)

2011

Abbott, J. K. and H. A. Klaiber. 2011. An embarrassment of riches: Confronting omitted variable bias and multi-scale capitalization in hedonic price models. Review of Economics and Statistics 93:1331-1342. (link)

Bang, C. and S. H. Faeth. 2011. Variation in arthropod communities in response to urbanization: Seven years of arthropod monitoring in a desert city. Landscape and Urban Planning 103:383-399. (link)

Bleasdale, T., C. Crouch and S. L. Harlan. 2011. Community gardening in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Phoenix, Arizona: Aligning programs with perceptions. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 1:Art. 7. (link)

Childers, D. L., J. Corman, M. Edwards and J. J. Elser. 2011. Sustainability challenges of phosphorus and food: Solutions from closing the human phosphorus cycle. BioScience 61:117-124.

Chow, W. T. and B. M. Svoma. 2011. Analyses of noctural temperature cooling rate response to historical local-scale urban land-use/land cover change. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 50:1872-1883. (link)

Chow, W. T., R. L. Pope, C. A. Martin and A. J. Brazel. 2011. Observing and modeling the nocturnal park cool island of an arid city: Horizontal and vertical impacts. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 103:197-211.

Clark, K. B. 2011. Fragmentation effects on vegetation and resulting vertebrate species distributions in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences 42:84-91.

Collins, S. L., S. R. Carpenter, S. M. Swinton, D. E. Orenstein, D. L. Childers, T. L. Gragson, N. B. Grimm, J. M. Grove, S. L. Harlan, J. P. Kaye, A. K. Knapp, G. P. Kofinas, J. J. Magnuson, W. H. McDowell, J. M. Melack, L. A. Ogden, G. P. Robertson, M. D. Smith and A. C. Whitmer. 2011. An integrated conceptual framework for social-ecological research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9:351-357.

Edmonds, J. W. and N. B. Grimm. 2011. Abiotic and biotic controls of organic matter cycling in a managed stream. Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogiosciences 116:1-13.

Evans, M. F., C. Poulos and V. K. Smith. 2011. Who counts in evaluating the effects of air pollution policies on households? Non-market valuation in the presence of dependencies. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 62:65-79.

Faeth, S. H., C. Bang and S. Saari. 2011. Urban biodiversity: Patterns and mechanisms. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1223:69-81.

Findlay, S. E., P. J. Mulholland, J. L. Tank, M. J. Bernot, A. J. Burgin, C. L. Crenshaw, C. N. Dahm, W. K. Dodds, N. B. Grimm, W. H. McDowell, J. Potter, D. Sobota and S. Hamilton. 2011. Cross-stream comparison of substrate-specific denitrification potential. Biogeochemistry 104:381-392.

Fink, J. H. 2011. Cross-sector integration of urban information to enhance sustainable decision making. IBM Journal of Research and Development 55:12:1-12:8.

Fink, J. H. 2011. The case for an urban genome project: A shortcutto global sustainability?. National Academy of Engineering Bridge 41:5-12.

Fokidis, H. B. 2011. Homeowners associations: Friend or foe to native desert avifauna?. Journal of Arid Environments 75:394-396.

Fokidis, H. B. and P. Deviche. 2011. Plasma corticosterone of city and desert Curve-billed Thrashers, Toxostoma curvirostre, in response to stress-related peptide administration. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 159:32-38.

Fokidis, H. B., L. Hurley, C. Rogowski, K. Sweazea and P. Deviche. 2011. Effects of captivity and body condition on plasma corticosterone, locomotor behavior, and plasma metabolites in Curve-billed Thrashers. Physiology and Biochemical Zoology 84:595-606. (link)

Fokidis, H. B., M. O. Orchinik and P. Deviche. 2011. Context-specific aggressive responses in urban birds: No evidence for an involvement of testosterone or corticosterone. Hormones and Behavior 59:133-143.

Georgescu, M., M. Moustaoui, A. Mahalov and J. Dudhia. 2011. An alternative explanation of the seim-arid urban area "oasis effect". Journal of Geophysical Research 116:D24113. (link)

Gober, P., E. A. Wentz, T. Lant, M. K. Tschudi and C. W. Kirkwood. 2011. WaterSim: A simulation model for urban water planning in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Environment and Planning B 38:197-215.

Hall, S. J., R. A. Sponseller, N. B. Grimm, D. Huber, J. P. Kaye, C. Clark and S. Collins. 2011. Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert. Ecological Applications 21:640-660.

Harlan, S. L. and D. Ruddell. 2011. Climate change and health in cities: Impacts of heat and air pollution and potential co-benefits from mitigation and adaptation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 3:126-134.

Jenerette, G. D., S. L. Harlan, W. Stefanov and C. Martin. 2011. Ecosystem services and urban heat riskscape moderation: Water, green spaces, and social inequality in Phoenix, USA. Ecological Applications 21:2637-2651. (link)

Johnson, A., O. Revis and J. C. Johnson. 2011. Chemical prey cues influence urban microhabitat preferences of Western black widow spiders, Latrodectus hesperus. Journal of Arachnology 39:449-453.

Johnson, J. C., P. Trubl, V. Blackmore and L. Miles. 2011. Male black widows court well-fed females more than starved females: Silken cues indicate sexual cannibalism risk. Animal Behaviour 82:388-390. (link)

Kaye, J. P., S. E. Eckert, D. A. Gonzales, J. O. Allen, S. J. Hall, R. A. Sponseller and N. B. Grimm. 2011. Decomposition of urban atmospheric carbon in Sonoran Desert soils. Urban Ecosystems 4:737-754. (link)

Larson, K. L., A. Wutich, T. Munoz-Erickson and S. Harlan. 2011. Cultural perspectives on water risks and policies in a southwestern city. Human Ecology Review 18:75-87.

Larson, K. L., D. Ibes and D. White. 2011. Gendered perspectives about water risks and policy strategies: A tripartite conceptual approach. Environment and Behavior 43:415-438.

Lerman, S. B. and P. S. Warren. 2011. The conservation value of residential yards: Linking birds and people. Ecological Applications 21:1327-1339.

Majumdar, A., C. Gries and J. Walker. 2011. A non-stationary spatial generalized linear mixed model approach for studying plant diversity. Journal of Applied Statistics 38:1935-1950.

Marusenko, Y., P. Herckes and S. J. Hall. 2011. Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils of urban transportation corridors in an arid ecosystem. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 219:473-487.

McDonald, R. I., I. Douglas, C. Revenga, R. Hale, N. Grimm, J. Gronwall and B. Fekete. 2011. Global urban growth and the geography of water availability, quality, and delivery. Ambio 40:437-446.

Pruitt, J. N., N. DiRienzo, S. Kralj-Fisher, J. C. Johnson and A. Sih. 2011. Individual- and condition-dependent effects on habitat choice and choosiness. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65:1987-1995. (link)

Roach, W. J. and N. B. Grimm. 2011. Denitrification mitigates N flux through the stream-floodplain complex of a desert city. Ecological Applications 21:2618-2636. (link)

Roy Chowdhury, R., K. Larson, M. Grove, C. Polasky, E. Cook, J. Onsted and L. Ogden. 2011. A multi-scalar approach to theorizing socio-ecological dynamics of urban residential landscapes. Cities and the Environment 4:Article 6. (link)

Torres, C. I., S. Ramakrishna, C. Chiu, K. Muto, P. Westerhoff and R. Krajmalmik-Brown. 2011. Fate of sucralose during wastewater treatment. Environmental Engineering Science 28:325-331.

Trubl, P., V. Blackmore and J. C. Johnson. 2011. Wasteful killing in black widows: Adaptive gluttony or behavioral syndromes of voracity?. Ethology 117:236-245.

Upadhyay, N., Q. Sun, J. O. Allen, P. Westerhoff and P. Herckes. 2011. Synthetic musk emissions from wastewater aeration basins. Water Research 45:1071-1078.

Westerhoff, P., G. Song, K. Hristovski and M. A. Kiser. 2011. Occurrence and removal of titanium at full scale wastewater treatment plants: Implications of TiO2 nanomaterials. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 13:1195-1203.

Wu, J., G. D. Jenerette, A. Buyantuyev and C. L. Redman. 2011. Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization: The case of the two fastest growing metropolitan regions in the United States. Ecological Complexity 8:1-8.

York, A. M., M. Shrestha, C. G. Boone, S. Zhang, J. Harrington, T. Prebyl, A. Swann, M. Agar, M. Antolin, B. Nolin, J. Wright and R. Skaggs. 2011. Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site analysis of southwestern cities. Urban Ecosystems 14:429-455.

York, A., A. Barnett, A. Wutich and B. Crona. 2011. Household bottled water consumption in Phoenix: A Lifestyle Choice. Water International 36:708-718.

Books and Book Chapters

In Press

Boone, C. G., T. L. Gragson and J. M. Grove. In press. Long-term trends in human population growth and economy across sites. In: D. Peters P., C. M. Laney, A. E. Lugo, S. L. Collins, C. T. Driscoll, P. M. Groffman, J. M. Grove, A. K. Knapp, T. A. Kratz, M. D. Ohman, R. B. Waide and J. Yao. eds., Long-Term Trends in Ecological Services: A Basis for Understanding Responses to Global Change. USDA Agricultural Research Service Publication.

Childers, D. L. In press. Urban sustainability in the US desert SW: The story of Phoenix, AZ. In: The Americas and Ocean: Assessing Sustainability's Human & Physical Geography. Berkshire Publ..

Childers, D. L., C. Carlille-Marquet, D. Cordell, V. Gerhart, D. Iwaniec and S. White. In press. Future scenarios for the global sustainable use of phosphorus. In: K. Wyant A., J. Corman and J. Elser. eds., Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future. Oxford Press.

Grossman-Clarke, S. and W. L. Stefanov. In press. Urban weather, climate and air quality modeling: Increasing resolution and accuracy using improved landscape characterization. In: X. Yang ed. Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment.

Hale, R. L., E. M. Cook, D. Iwaniec and N. B. Grimm. in press. Urbanization and the altered biogeochemical cycle. In: X. Bai, T. Graedel and A. Morishima. eds., Cities in Evolution: Urbanization, Environmental Change and Sustainability. Cambridge University Press.

Larson, E., S. Earl, E. Hagen, R. Hale, H. Hartnett, M. McCrackin, M. McHale and N. B. Grimm. In press. Beyond restoration and into design: Hydrologic alterations in aridland cities. In: S. Pickett T., M. Cadenasso, B. McGrath and K. Hill. eds., Urban Ecological Heterogeneity and Its Application to Resilient Urban Design. Springer.

Larson, K. L., D. C. Ibes and E. A. Wentz. In press. Identifying the water conservation potential of neighborhoods in Phoenix, AZ: an integrated socio-spatial approach. In: P. Lawrence ed. Geospatial Approaches to Urban Water Resources. Springer Series Geotechnologies and the Environment: Planning and Socioeconomic Applications.

Lepczyk, C., P. S. Warren, L. Machabee, A. P. Kinzig and A. Mertig. In press. Who feeds the birds? A comparison between Phoenix, Arizona and southeastern Michigan. In: C. Marti, C. Lepczyk and P. Warren. eds., Studies in Avian Biology: New Directions in Urban Bird Research. Cooper Ornithological Society.

Metson, G. S., K. A. Wyant and D. L. Childers. In press. Introduction to phosphorus sustainability. In: K. Wyant A., J. Corman and J. Elser. eds., Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future. Oxford Press.

Talen, E. ed. In press. City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban From. Island Press.

Wu, J., A. Buyantuyev, G. D. Jenerette, J. Litteral and W. Shen. In press. Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns and ecological effects of urbanization: A multiscale landscape approach. In: M. Richter and U. Weiland. eds., Applied Urban Ecology: A Global Framework. Blackwell.

Wutich, A., A. Brewis, S. Sigurdsson, R. Stotts and A. York. In press. Fairness and the human right to water: A preliminary cross-cultural theory. In: J. Wagner ed. The Social Life of Water in a Time of Crisis. Berghahn Books.

In Review

Aggarwal, R. M. and C. Taylor. In review. Sustainable agricultural systems in cities. In: Sustainable Cities. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.

Spielmann, K., S. J. Hall, M. Kruse-Peeples and D. Nakase. eds. In review. Legacies on the landscape: Long-term Socio-ecological Interactions in the Southwestern U.S. from Field to Table: The Historical Ecology of Regional Subsistence Strategies. University of South Carolina Press. South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Wutich, A. and C. Gravlee. In review. Water decision makers in a desert city: Text analysis and environmental social science. In: I. Vaccaro, E. Smith and S. Aswani. eds., Society and Environment: Methods and Research Design. Cambridge University Press.

2012

2011

Deviche, P., L. Hurley and B. Fokidis. 2011. Avian testicular structure, function, and regulation. Pp. 27-69 In: D. Norris and K. H. Lopez. eds., Hormones and Reproduction in Vertebrates. Volume 4, Academic Press. Invited chapter..

Fink, J. H. 2011. Phoenix, the role of the university, and the politics of green-tech. Pp. 69-90 In: M. Slavin I. ed. Sustainability in America's Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis.. Island Press.

Grimm, N. B., R. L. Hale, E. Cook and D. Iwaniec. 2011. Urban biogeochemical flux analysis. Pp. 503-520 In: I. Douglas, D. Goode, M. Houck and R. Wang. eds., The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology. Taylor and Frances Books. ISBN 0-202-83926-9.

Heinrichs, D., R. M. Aggarwal, J. Barton, E. Bharucha, C. Butsch, M. Fragkias, P. Johnston, F. Kraas, K. Krellenberg, A. Lampis, O. G. Ling and J. Vogel. 2011. Adapting cities to climate change: Opportunities and constraints. Pp. 193-224 In: D. Hoonweg, M. Freira, M. Lee, P. Bhada and B. Yuen. eds., Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda. World Bank.

Klaiber, H. A. and V. K. Smith. 2011. Preference heterogeneity and non-market benefits: The roles of structural hedonic and sorting models. Pp. 222-253 In: J. Bennett ed. International Handbook on Non-Market Environmental Valuation. Edward Elgar.

McIntyre, N. E. 2011. Introduction to Section 3 - Ecology in cities: Processes affecting urban diversity. In: J. Niemela, J. H. Breuste, T. Elmqvist, G. Guntenspergen, P. James and N. E. McIntyre. eds., Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications. Oxford University Press.

McIntyre, N. E. 2011. Summary for Section 3 - Ecology in cities: Processes affecting urban biodiversity. In: J. Niemela, J. H. Breuste, T. Elmqvist, G. Guntenspergen, P. James and N. E. McIntyre. eds., Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications. Oxford University Press.

McIntyre, N. E. 2011. Urban ecology: Definitions and goals. Pp. 7-16 In: I. Douglas, D. Goode, M. Houck and R. Wang. eds., The Routledge Handbook on Urban Ecology. Taylor and Frances Books.

Niemela, J., J. Breuste, T. Elmqvist, G. Guntenspergen, P. James and N. McIntyre. 2011. Urban ecology: From science to applications. In: J. Niemela, J. H. Breuste, T. Elmqvist, G. Guntenspergen, P. James and N. E. McIntyre. eds., Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications. Oxford University Press.

Niemela, J., J. Breuste, T. Elmqvist, G. Gutenspergen, P. James and N. McIntyre. 2011. Concluding remarks: The way forward for urban ecology. In: J. Niemela, J. Breuste, T. Elmqvist, G. Gutenspergen, P. James and N. E. McIntyre. eds., Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications. Oxford University Press.

Niemela, J., J. H. Brueste, T. Elmqvist, G. Gutenspergen, P. James and N. E. McIntyre. eds. 2011. Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications. Oxford University Press.

Swan, C. M., S. Pickett, K. Szlavecz, P. Warren and K. T. Willey. 2011. Biodiversity and community composition in urban ecosystem studies: Coupled human, spatial, and metacommuunity processes. Pp. 179-186 In: J. Niemela, J. H. Breuste, T. Elmqvist, G. Gutenspergen, P. James and N. E. McIntyre. eds., Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications. Oxford University Press.