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Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization
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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.About:
This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 2823 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban ecology & Urbanization.read more
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Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
Nancy B. Grimm,Stanley H. Faeth,Nancy Golubiewski,Charles L. Redman,Jianguo Wu,Xuemei Bai,John M. Briggs +6 more
TL;DR: Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects of an increasingly urbanized world.
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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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Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers of insect extinction, reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world's insect species over the next few decades.
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Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities
Gian-Reto Walther,Alain Roques,Philip E. Hulme,Martin T. Sykes,Petr Pyšek,Petr Pyšek,Ingolf Kühn,Martin Zobel,Sven Bacher,Zoltán Botta-Dukát,Harald Bugmann,Bálint Czúcz,Jens Dauber,Thomas Hickler,Vojtěch Jarošík,Vojtěch Jarošík,Marc Kenis,Stefan Klotz,Dan Minchin,Mari Moora,Wolfgang Nentwig,Jürgen Ott,Vadim E. Panov,Björn Reineking,Christelle Robinet,V. P. Semenchenko,Wojciech Solarz,Wilfried Thuiller,Montserrat Vilà,Katrin Vohland,Josef Settele +30 more
TL;DR: It is emphasised that global warming has enabled alien species to expand into regions in which they previously could not survive and reproduce and management practices regarding the occurrence of 'new' species could range from complete eradication to tolerance.
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Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress
Steward T. A. Pickett,Mary L. Cadenasso,J. M. Grove,Christopher G. Boone,Peter M. Groffman,Elena G. Irwin,Sujay S. Kaushal,Victoria J. Marshall,Brian McGrath,Charles H. Nilon,Richard V. Pouyat,Katalin Szlavecz,Austin Troy,Paige S. Warren +13 more
TL;DR: The state factor approach is used to highlight the role of important aspects of climate, substrate, organisms, relief, and time in differentiating urban from non-urban areas, and for determining heterogeneity within spatially extensive metropolitan areas.
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Our Ecological Footprint: reducing human impact on the earth - eScholarship
TL;DR: Wackernagel and Rees as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of the aggregate land area required for a given population to exist in a sustainable manner, and showed that at 11 acres per person, the U.S. has the highest per capita footprint.
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
TL;DR: Wackernagel and Rees as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of the aggregate land area required for a given population to exist in a sustainable manner, and showed that at 11 acres per person, the U.S. has the highest per capita footprint.
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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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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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Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions
Katriona Shea,Peter Chesson +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of "niche opportunity" was introduced by as discussed by the authors, which defines conditions that promote invasions in terms of resources, natural enemies, the physical environment, interactions between these factors, and the manner in which they vary in time and space.