This video describes the field of urban ecology and features scientists who use the city as their field site. What would you consider to be “natural”? How does the environment affect humans, and how do humans affect the environment? When we think about nature and biodiversity, we often think about faraway and “untouched” places. But when we look at humans as part of the environment, as one of many organisms in complicated systems, new ideas and new questions become possible.We’ll hear about stud…