A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1780, 2014, Pages

  Aronson, Myla F J ^a   La Sorte, Frank A ^b   Nilon, Charles H ^c   Katti, Madhusudan ^d   Goddard, Mark A ^e   Lepczyk, Christopher A ^f   Warren, Paige S ^g   Williams, Nicholas S G ^h   Cilliers, Sarel ⁱ   Clarkson, Bruce ^j   Dobbs, Cynnamon ^h   Dolan, Rebecca ^k   Hedblom, Marcus ^l   Klotz, Stefan ^m   Kooijmans, Jip Louwe ⁿ   Kühn, Ingolf ^m   Macgregor Fors, Ian ^o   Mcdonnell, Mark ^h   Mörtberg, Ulla ^p   Pyšek, Petr ^q,r,s   Siebert, Stefan ⁱ   Sushinsky, Jessica ^t   Werner, Peter ^u   Winter, Marten ^v   more..

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

ⁱ NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^k BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^m HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

ⁿ Vogelbescherming Nederland   (Netherlands)

^o INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^p ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^q INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^r CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^s STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^t UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^u Institute for Housing and Environment   (Germany)

^v GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Anthropogenic activities; Density of species; Global biodiversity; Native species; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EDUCATION; GRASS; HOMOGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84893711703     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3330     Document Type: Article

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