Conference 2003
Greening the City:
Bringing Biodiversity Back
into the Urban Environment
Biographical
Details:
 Associate
Prof. Mark McDonnell (Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology
— ARCUE, Melbourne, Australia)
Dr. McDonnell is Director
of the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, a Division
of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. In addition, he is an Associate
Professor in the School of Botany, University of Melbourne. His
interests range widely, and include the processes driving vegetation
change, invasion of non-indigenous plants, landscape ecology, the
structure and function of ecological systems in urban and suburban
environments, and the conservation and restoration of urban and
suburban natural areas. He has conducted pioneering research on
the ecology of urban and suburban environments. In all these areas,
he is concerned about bringing high-quality ecological data and
the understanding of basic ecological processes to bear on problems
of conservation and management. Mark currently serves on the editorial
advisory board for Landscape and Urban Planning and is on the Editorial
Board of Ecological Management and Restoration. He has published
over 80 scientific papers, reviews, reports and articles and has
presented over 100 scientific papers in the United States and around
the world.
Selected
publications
McDonnell,
M. J., S.T.A. Pickett, R. V. Pouyat, R. W. Parmelee, M. M. Carreiro,
P. M. Groffman, P. Bohlen, W. C. Zipperer, and K. Medley. 1997.
Ecology of an urban-to-rural gradient. Urban Ecosystems 1: 21-36.
McDonnell,
M. J. and S. T. A. Pickett. 1993. Editors. Humans as Components
of Ecosystems: Subtle Human Effects and the Ecology of Populated
Areas. Springer-Verlag. New York. 363 pp.
McDonnell,
M. J. and S. T. A. Pickett 1990. Ecosystem structure and function
along gradients of urbanization: An unexploited opportunity for
ecology. Ecology 71:1231-1237.
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