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Michael L. McKinney
Researcher at University of Tennessee
Publications - 91
Citations - 15548
Michael L. McKinney is an academic researcher from University of Tennessee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Introduced species. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 88 publications receiving 13960 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael L. McKinney include University of Missouri.
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Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation
TL;DR: A review by Czech and colleagues (2000) finds that urbanization endangers more species and is more geographically ubiquitous in the mainland United States than any other human activity, emphasizing the uniquely far-reaching transformations that accompany urban sprawl as discussed by the authors.
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Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization
TL;DR: In this paper, a basic conservation challenge is that urban biota is often quite diverse and very abundant, and that, because so many urban species are immigrants adapting to city habitats, urbanites of all income levels become increasingly disconnected from local indigenous species and their natural ecosystems.
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Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction
TL;DR: Emerging evidence shows that most species are declining and are being replaced by a much smaller number of expanding species that thrive in human-altered environments, leading to a more homogenized biosphere with lower diversity at regional and global scales.
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Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals
TL;DR: 105 studies on the effects of urbanization on the species richness of non-avian species: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and plants are reviewed, including the importance of nonnative species importation, spatial heterogeneity, intermediate disturbance and scale as major factors influencing species richness.
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Extinction Vulnerability and Selectivity: Combining Ecological and Paleontological Views
TL;DR: This work has shown that replacement of vulnerable taxa by rapidly spreading taxa that thrive in human-altered environments will ultimately produce a spatially more homogenized biosphere with much lower net diversity.