Nature in cities and beyond is essential both to species conservation and to provide fulfilling environments for people. But natural spaces in urban places require management, both the protect species and to maintain human health. Research on urban nature often involves those species that can persist within a city and in urban fragments. It also includes the urban forest, which is not necessarily natural, but provides valuable habitat for wildlife and irreplaceable ecosystems services.
Updates
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Oak Titmouse: Royalty in the Canopy
Reprinted from The Glenite [newsletter of the Residents of Beverly Glen], Spring 2024, p. 6 One of the delights of the Glen is the abundance of Coast Live Oak trees. They are part of the indigenous vegetation that would have been found along the canyon bottom, which this winter has forcefully reminded us is a…
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Encounter with a Common Poorwill
Reprinted from The Glenite [newsletter of the Residents of Beverly Glen], Summer 2023, p. 6 Of all the nocturnal bird calls in our canyon, the most frequently heard is that of the Great Horned Owl, with a higher and lower stuttering call of hoo-h’HOO-hoo-hoo. But during spring evenings in the Glen [Beverly Glen, eastern Santa…
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An Urban Forest for the Birds
Reprinted from The Western Tanager 89(4):1-3. A fact that has stuck with me from the research for the Los Angeles County Breeding Bird Atlas in the 1990s is that there was not a single neighborhood in the county that did not have at least ten breeding bird species. Residents can enjoy birds wherever they live.…
Publications
| Peng, W., D. López-Carr, C. Wu, X. Wang, and T. Longcore. 2020. What factors influence the willingness of Protected Area residents to relocate? China’s ecological relocation policy for Dashanbao Protected Area. Science of the Total Environment 727:138364. | |
| Peng, W., D. Kong, C. Wu, A.P. Møller, and T. Longcore. 2020. Predicted effects of Chinese national park policy on wildlife habitat provisioning: experience from plateau wetland ecosystem. Environmental Indicators 115:106346. | |
| Aguirre, A., T. Longcore, M. Barbieri, H. Dabritz, D. Hill, P. Klein, C. Lepczyk, E. Lilly, R. McLeod, J. Milcarsky, C. E. Murphy, C. Su, E. VanWormer, R. Yolken, and G. C. Sizemore. 2019. The One Health approach to toxoplasmosis: epidemiology, control and prevention in humans, animals, and ecosystems. EcoHealth 16(2):378-390. | |
| Longcore, T., and P. A. Smith. 2013. On avian mortality associated with human activities [guest editorial]. Avian Conservation and Ecology 8(2):1. | |
| Longcore, T., L. Almaleh, B. Chetty, K. Francis, R. Freidin, C.-S. Huang, B Pickett, D. Schreck, B. Scruggs, E. Shulman, A. Swauger, A. Tashnek, M. Wright, and E. E. Boydston. 2018. Wildlife corridor use and environmental impact assessment: a southern California case study. Cities and the Environment 11(1):art4. | |
| Longcore, T. 2012. No-kill movement means death for birds. Bird Calls 16(3):3. | |
| Bartos, M., S. Dao, D. Douk, S. Falzone, E. Gumerlock, S. Hoekstra, K. Kelly-Reif, D. Mori, C. Tang, C. Vasquez, J. Ward, S. Young, A. Morzillo, S.P.D. Riley, and T. Longcore. 2012. Use of anticoagulant rodenticides in single-family neighborhoods along an urban-wildland interface in California. Cities and the Environment 4(1):art12. | |
| Longcore, T., C. Rich, and L. M. Sullivan. 2009. Critical assessment of claims regarding management of feral cats by trap–neuter–return. Conservation Biology 23(4):887-894. | |
| Longcore, T., C. Rich, and D. Müller-Schwarze. 2007. Management by assertion: beavers and songbirds at Lake Skinner (Riverside County, California). Environmental Management 39:460–471. | |
| Longcore, T. 2006. Prioritizing multiple-benefit watershed projects: dollars or sense? Watershed Wise 10(2):6–7. |