[Ecoed] Call for articles on education about urban pollination and food security

[Thomas Poulson]

Alan:

Sounds worthwhile.

I have a number of interactive lab / discussion / field trip exercises that
I have used in urban areas K-seniors.
They include vacant lot succession, adaptations / niches / microhabitats of
sidewalk crack plants, pigeon ­ house sparrow ­ starling feeding niche and
habitat, dispersal modes of dandelion and ploantain in relation to habitat
generalization or specialization etc  Would these be appropriate materail
for the new on-line journal?

Cheers, Tom

Dr. Thomas Poulson, Emeritus Professor
Ecology and Evolution Group, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago

561-630-3643, tomandliz at bellsouth.net

 


On 10/3/07 2:27 PM, "Alan Berkowitz" <berkowitza at ecostudies.org> wrote:

> Pollination Services and Food Security in the City
> CATE Journal, Volume 3
> 
> We are soliciting articles on pollination ecology, pollination services, and
> urban community gardens for an upcoming issue of the online peer-reviewed
> journal, Cities and the Environment (catejournal.org
> <http://www.catejournal.org/> ) to be published November 2008. We are
> particularly interested in articles about education and outreach around these
> topics.
>  
> Critical ecosystem services provided by pollinators are at risk, with
> declining populations of both native and non-native bees. More than one third
> of temperate food crops are dependent on pollination, according to some
> estimates. Recent work has addressed the potential impacts of loss of
> pollinators for commercial agriculture. But as urban areas expand and an
> increasing proportion of the human population lives in cities, the role of
> pollinators dwelling in urban and suburban areas may likewise become
> increasingly critical to understand.
>  
> We aim for this volume of CATE to address a suite of related issues in urban
> pollinator ecology and community gardening. What roles do pollinators play in
> urban ecosystems, both for native plant populations and for crop plants grown
> in private and public gardens, and in nearby farms? Can urban gardens function
> to support native bees and other pollinators? Community gardens provide
> affordable, nutritious food sources for many urban residents. What impact
> might pollinator declines have on community gardens and on the people that use
> them? And can community gardens contribute to ecological literacy by enhancing
> understanding of the importance of pollination?
> 
> We invite contributions to Cities and the Environment (CATE) on these and
> related issues. Please submit articles by 1 April 2008. For further
> information, contact Paige Warren (Associate Editor, CATE) at Department of
> Natural Resources Conservation, UMass-Amherst, ph: 413 545 0061, email:
> pswarren at nrc.umass.edu <mailto:pswarren at nrc.umass.edu> .
> 
> Thank you for your help in letting people know about this exciting
> opportunity.
> 
> Alan Berkowitz, Associate Editor, CATE
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