Role of human population size in raising bird and mammal threat among nations

Animal Conservation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-57

  McKinney, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012486218     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943001001056     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Baillie, J. & Groombridge, B. (1996). IUCN red list of threatened animals. Gland, Switzerland: World Conservation Union.
2. Balmford, A. (1996). Extinction filters and current resilience: the significance of past selection pressures for conservation biology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11: 193-197.
3. Brooks, T. M., Pimm, S. L. & Oyugi, J. O. (1999). Time lag between deforestation and bird extinction in tropical forest fragments. Conserv. Biol. 13: 1140-1151.
4. Brown, J. H. & Lomolino, M. (1998). Biogeography. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
5. Chown, S. L., Gremmen, N. J. & Gaston, K. J. (1998). Ecological biogeography of Southern Ocean islands: species-area relationships, human impacts and conservation. Am. Nat. 152: 562-575.
6. Cohen, J. E. (1997). Conservation and human population growth: what are the linkages? In The ecological basis of conservation: 29-42. Pickett, S. T., Ostfeld, R., Shachak, M. & Likens, G. E., (Eds). London: Chapman & Hall.
7. Davis, J. C. (1986). Statistics and data analysis in geology. New York: Wiley.
8. Kerr, J. T., & Currie, D. J. (1995). Effects of human activity on global extinction risk. Conserv. Biol. 9: 1528-1539.
9. Kirkland, G. L. & Ostfeld, R. S. (1999). Factors influencing variation among states in the number of federally listed mammals in the United States. J. Mammal. 80: 711-719.
10. Mace, G. M. & Balmford, A. (2000). Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinctions. In Future priorities for the conservation of mammalian diversity: Entwhistle, A. & Dunstone, N. (Eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. McKinney, M. L. (1999). High rates of extinction and threat in poorly studied taxa. Conserv. Biol. 13: 1273-1281.
12. Meyer, W. B. & Turner, B. L. (1992). Human population growth and global land-use/cover changes. Annu. Rev. Ecol. System. Biol. 23: 39-62.
13. Rosenzweig, M. L. (1995). Species diversity in space and time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. SAS (1990) Statistical analysis user's guide. Cary, NC: SAS Institute.
15. Soulé, M. E. (1983). What do we really know about extinctions? In Genetics and Conservation: 111-124. Schonewald-Cox, C. M., Chambers, S. M., MacBryde, B. & Thomas, W. L. (Eds). Menlo Park, CA: Benjamins/Cummings.
16. Thompson, K. & Jones, A. (1999). Human population density and prediction of local plant extinctions in Britain. Conserv. Biol. 13: 185-190.
17. Vitousek, P. M., Loope, L. & Adsersen, H. (Eds) (1995) Islands: biological diversity and ecosystem function. Berlin: Springer- Verlag.
18. WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Center) (1992). Global biodiversity: status of the earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall.
19. Wilcove, D. S., Rothstein, D., Dubow, J., Phillips, A. & Losos, E. (1998). Quantifying threats to imperiled species in the United States. BioScience 48: 607-615.
20. World Almanac Books (1999). World Almanac. Famighetti, R. (Editorial Director). Mahwah, NJ: World Almanac Books.