Agroecology in the City: Applying Ecological Principles to Sustainable Urban Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Urban agriculture creates pockets of diverse, verdant green spaces within harsh urban landscapes composed primarily of impervious surface. These novel ecosystems are widely documented to function as habitat for a diversity of organisms. However, studies focusing on how organisms within urban agriculture systems interact with each other and their environment and/or contribute to sustainability are rare. This Special Issue selectively collates studies within urban agriculture that address its unique ecology. Papers will address a variety of ecological topics including agroecology, landscape ecology, spatial ecology, meta-population theory, molecular ecology, biological control, behavioral ecology, urban ecology, biodiversity-ecosystem function, and socio-ecology. Papers selected for this Special Issue were subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments and applications.

Dr. Theresa W Ong
Prof. Dr. Stacy Philpott
Prof. Dr. Ivette Perfecto
Guest Editors

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