Urban Ecology Research Laboratory (UERL)

"The Urban Ecology Research Laboratory (UERL) is a dynamic and self-organizing interdisciplinary research team lead by Associate Professor Marina Alberti. The UERL research program is grounded in an urban ecology framework, a conceptual model wherein humans are the dominant agents of change within the ecosystem, giving rise to complex interactions between socio-economic drivers and biophysical processes. We study urban landscapes as hybrid phenomena that emerge from the interactions between human and ecological processes. We build on urban and landscape ecology to empirically study the interactions between urban development and ecosystem dynamics. We aim to assess the environmental implications of alternative urban development patterns." [from website Research introduction]

Urban Ecology Research Laboratory (UERL)