Integrating Urban Ecological Models
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Over the past 20 years, understanding of the functioning of urban ecosystems has increased to the point where fairly sophisticated models of various subsystems have been developed by scientists working for federal, state, and local agencies, often in cooperation with university researchers. Each is designed to collect data and explore a specific urban/environmental system for issues related to the mandate of the sponsoring agency. These models are of value to science both for their insight into social and economic process as well as potential media for ecological monitoring data to be represented in environmental planning and decision-making.
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