Megapolitan Political Ecology and Urban Metabolism in Southern AppalachiaFootnote

^*This project was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program (DEB-0823293). The authors would like to thank Dr. Barney Warf and two anonymous reviewers who provided excellent guidance and suggestions on this article.

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