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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

2001

Wildlife management

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Urban Wildlife Control: It Starts In Our Own Backyard, John Hadidian Jan 2001

Urban Wildlife Control: It Starts In Our Own Backyard, John Hadidian

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Urban Wildlife, John Hadidian, Sydney Smith Jan 2001

Urban Wildlife, John Hadidian, Sydney Smith

State of the Animals 2001

Despite the potential for difficulty, there are several reasons why urban wildlife should be valued and better understood. First is its scientific and heuristic value. Urban wildlife populations are essentially parts of ongoing natural experiments in adaptation to anthropogenic stress. How urban animals are affected by human activities— and how they cope with them— can represent, on a highly accelerated scale, a model of what is happening to species in other biomes. No other wild animals live in such intimate contact and under such constant constraint from human activities as do synanthropes. Second, urban animals are exposed to many environmental …