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Ecological Homogenization of Urban America


One current project in our lab (in collaboration with many others) addresses the ways that urbanization makes landscapes more (or less) similar in different sorts of environments.  Across 6 cities in the mainland US, we are conducting social surveys, mapping land cover at high-resolution, and sampling soil and vegetation to test the hypothesis that urban landscapes are more similar to one another than are their predecessor landscapes.  In addition, we are interested in whether social characteristics of households (age, income, life stage) make them more similar to one another.  Learn more about the project here:

http://urbanhomogenization.org/ 
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