This is a collection of short stories I wrote during my two years in the M.F.A. at UNC Greensboro. My intention is for these stories to depict varied representations of g[...]

Recent urban development in Shanghai, the largest city in China, and its impact on the water environment are examined in this study. The area of built-up surface was obta[...]

There is a demand for mechanistic studies to explore underlying drivers behind observed patterns of biodiversity in urban areas. We describe a two-year field experiment i[...]

Time of peak bat activity during the night differs among bat species. Foraging strategies may differ among species due to prey availability, habitat availability, and/or [...]

Time of peak bat activity during the night differs among bat species due to temperature, prey availability, habitat availability, and/or interactions between species. Hab[...]

Urban development alters landscapes and changes ecosystems. One of these changes is the homogenization of species, as specialist species are no longer able to survive. We[...]

This article examines desired family size and sex composition, the extent of son preference, the underlying motivations for the preference, and the knowledge and use of t[...]

Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity,[...]

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the influences of urbanization on long-term streamflow patterns in different physiographic regions of North Carolina. Specifi[...]

As China‘s largest and wealthiest city, Shanghai‘s dynamic growth since the 1990s indicates the spatial form of new metropolitan expansion patterns. This research deals w[...]

Thousands of settlements stippled the third millennium B.C. landscape of Pakistan and northwest India. These communities maintained an extensive exchange network that spa[...]

The North Carolina Piedmont-Triad Region is a 12-county and 62 municipality section of the state that features major highway systems such as I-40, I-85, and I-77. Within [...]

[2017-2018 UNCG University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund Grant Winner.] Many local scale studies have shown that bats respond to water quality degradation or urba[...]

The purpose of this dissertation was to present a methodological analysis of the demographic, socioeconomic and structural components of small and medium towns to highlig[...]

The patterns of biodiversity changes in cities are now fairly well established, although diversity changes in temperate cities are much better studied than cities in othe[...]

Urban growth and social change in the South, 1870-1920: Greensboro, North Carolina as a case study

Vegetation plays an important role in regulating the health of urban ecosystems (Sanders, 2004; Jim, 2004). Riparian zones, parks, nature reserves, and other forms of urb[...]

The widely accepted consensus is that urbanization increases abundance but reduces species richness of animals. This assumption is the premise for empirical tests and the[...]

Modernization's destabilizing effects frequently afflict emerging nations. Common problems evoke convergent pressures to find similar solutions. Bhutan's "middle way" dev[...]

Stream channel geometries have been found to enlarge with urbanization of the upland drainage basin. Although enlargement has been documented in a variety of climatic and[...]

Continuous monitoring is essential to understand dynamics of biological communities in response to urbanization, and to provide guidance in landscape planning for conserv[...]