Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7545, 2015, Pages 45-50

  Newbold, Tim ^a,b   Hudson, Lawrence N ^c   Hill, Samantha L L ^a,c   Contu, Sara ^c   Lysenko, Igor ^d   Senior, Rebecca A ^a,o   Börger, Luca ^e   Bennett, Dominic J ^d,p   Choimes, Argyrios ^c,d   Collen, Ben ^f   Day, Julie ^d,q   De Palma, Adriana ^c,d   Díaz, Sandra ^g   Echeverria Londoño, Susy ^c   Edgar, Melanie J ^c   Feldman, Anat ^h   Garon, Morgan ^d   Harrison, Michelle L K ^d   Alhusseini, Tamera ^d   Ingram, Daniel J ^d,n   Itescu, Yuval ^h   Kattge, Jens ^i,j   Kemp, Victoria ^d   Kirkpatrick, Lucinda ^d,r   Kleyer, Michael ^k   Correia, David Laginha Pinto ^c   Martin, Callum D ^d   Meiri, Shai ^h   Novosolov, Maria ^h   Pan, Yuan ^d   Phillips, Helen R P ^c,d   Purves, Drew W ^b   Robinson, Alexandra ^d   Simpson, Jake ^d   Tuck, Sean L ^l   Weiher, Evan ^m   White, Hannah J ^d,s   Ewers, Robert M ^d   MacE, Georgina M ^f   Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^a,n   Purvis, Andy ^c,d   more..

^a UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^h TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

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

^k UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^p ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^s QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HARVESTING; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; LAND BIOME; LAND USE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PASTURELAND; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANTATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES INVASION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TURNOVER TIME; VEGETATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; HISTORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84926360683     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14324     Document Type: Article

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