Urban Biodiversity: The Natural History of the New Jersey Meadowlands

Kiviat and MacDonald delve into the considerable biodiversity of an ecologically battered urban-industrial region, addressing wild species from lichens to mammals. The results will help decision makers foster wildlife and plants that can cope with urban conditions and will aid in reducing loss of biodiversity in urbanizing areas.

Erik Kiviat is executive director of Hudsonia, a nonprofit institute for scientific research and education based in Annandale, New York.

Kristi MacDonald is director of science at Raritan Headwaters, a nonprofit conservation organization in Bedminster, New Jersey.