FOREWORD: Professor Steward Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, New York Introduction: The Ecology and Biodiversity of Tropical Cities Are as Important as Unknown Part I 1. An Overview of Urbanization in the Tropics and its Positive and Negative Impacts on Biological Diversity 2. Urban Ecology in the Century of Uncertainty: The Challenge for Tropical Cities 3. Latin America: Where Urbanization and Poverty Peak Together with Biodiversity? 4. Urban Deforestation in Amazon Cities - Unsustainable Forest Urbanization Exposes the Loss of Urban Ecosystem Services and Urban Inequalities 5. Immigrants and the Demise of Wildlife in East Africa''s Growing Cities 6. Urban evolution in tropical cities 7. Small Forest Fragments Maintain Native Small Mammals in Rapidly Expanding Tropical Cities 8.
A multi-scale and multi-taxa framework to assess biodiversity responses to landscape urbanization 9. Functional diversity and the functional traits of the tropical urban fauna 10.Revisiting Butterfly Diversity in Kolkata India: Conservation from Urban Perspectives 11. The Role of Urban Tributaries as a Conservation Strategy for the Pantanal Biome 12. Potential urbanization effects on small-scale fisheries in tropical rivers 13. Loss of biodiversity in marine tropical regions caused by unplanned coastal urbanization Part II 14. Cultural, Environmental, Socioeconomic, Political and Urbanistic Factors Shape the Small but Immense Urban Ecosystems 15. Human Dimensions Modulate Commensalism in Tropical Megacities: 16.
The Case of an Urban Raptor in Delhi (India) 17. Vale Encantado Park: social mobilization movement for a metropolitan conservation area 18. Virtues and Limitations of Master Plans for the Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Cities 19. Green and Gray Grids: Urban network, Natural Resources and the Construction of a Sustainable Landscape in Tropical Cities From Brazil 20. Opposing Urban Ecology? The Restrictions of Morphology and Architectural Typology to Urban Forestry 21. Possible Implications of Chinese Concept ''Eco-civilization'' in China Pakistan Economic Corridor 22. (CPEC): highlighting priority areas 23. How to Maintain High Biodiversity in Tropical Urban Centers 24.
A Review of Urban Agriculture Situation in the South and Southeast of Iran 25. Ecology, Conservation Educational and Therapeutic Importance of Raptors in High-altitude Cities (La Paz, Bolivia) 26. Diversity and human perceptions of butterflies in Southeast and East Asia''s megacities: Broad patterns and standard methods of investigation 27. Urban Forestry and Forest City Agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta, Southern China 28. Impacts of Land Use Change on Singapore''s Butterflies and How Citizen Scientists Can Help in Conservation Efforts 29. Urban greenspaces and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Africa: Case studies, Lessons Learned and Ways Forward Part III 30 Jungles of Stone and Chlorophyll: the Staggering Plant Diversity in Tropical Cities 31. Urban Green Spaces in Neotropical Cities: What We Really Know About Plant Ecology Within Biodiversity Hotspots? 32. Little variation of green spaces in the urban and suburban area of Kinshasa 33.
Urban Trees of Brazilian Cities: Composition, Similarity and Consequences to Urban Infrastructure 34. The Potential of Yards for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Tropical Cities 35. Urbanites-backyard Garden Interaction and Species Preferences Impound Local Biodiversity in an Afro-tropical Metropolitan Region 36. Agrobiodiversity conservation in urban contexts and the role of indigenous peoples and local communities 37. Tree Diversity in an Urban Industrial Area: Implications for Urban Greening and Conservation 38. Usage of Vegetal for Habitat (UVH), a new term for a better assessment of urban biodiversity: case study in Kinshasa City Part IV 39. Are Tropical Urban Ecosystems Friendly to Fauna? 40. Frugivory and seed dispersal in tropical urban areas: a review 41.
Pollinator Diversity in Tropical Urban Ecosystems 42. Urban Bird Assemblages: Characterization Based on Diversity and Ecological Network 43. Bats in tropical cities: synthesis and future directions 44. Land snail diversity of Kolkata, India: potential for sustenance of urban green 45. Insects in the City: Patterns of Biodiversity, Interactions and Ecosystem Services in Urban Green Areas 46. Ecosystem Services in Tropical cities: Insects Safeguard the Function 47. What do Butterflies Tell us About Tropical Urban Biodiversity? Part V 48. Applied Knowledge from Natural and Social Sciences is Essential for the Conservation of Urban (and Global) Biodiversity 49.
Social-ecological Dynamics, Ecosystem Services Uses, and Governance of Green and Blue Infrastructure in Bengaluru, India 50. Long Term Standardized Biodiversity Monitoring Programs in the Cities and Its Importance as Analytic and Managing Tools 51. Low-cost Method for Invasive Species Detection in Urban Environments - Example of Drone-based Workflow Application 52. Landscape Design to Mitigate the Urban Climate: Case of São Paulo, Santos and Campinas 53. Environmental Function of Squares as a Conservation Strategy for Urban Biodiversity 54. Evaluation of Urban Green Areas: A Methodological Proposition 55. Domestic arboreous vegetation (DAV), a new term for a better assessment of urban trees: case study of Kinshasa city 56. The Ecological Sensitivity of Cities: Defining a System of Green Corridors 57.
Landscape Metrics Applied to Urban Green Space Analysis Aiming to Detect Habitat Availability 58. Cooling Energy Use and Microclimate in Urban Ecosystems 59. Rurality in relation to the urban-rural border: stories from a niche in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá 60. The Contribution of Environmental Journalism to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity: Information, Education and Awareness 61. Tropical Cities Need To Be More Permeable to Biodiversity, and This Implies Profound Social, Cultural and Political Changes.