Do human activities raise species richness? Contrasting patterns in United States plants and fishes

By M. Mckinney. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Biotic Impoverishment and Homogenization in Unfragmented Forest Understory Communities (2004, background): “At the scale of Conservation Biology Volume 18, No. 3, June 2004 entire states, McKinney (2002) found that plant species richness increases as the influx of non-native species outpaces native species extinctions.”
Fifty years of change in northern upland forest understories: Identity and traits of “winner” and “loser” plant species (2006, background): “Most studies of homogenization are limited by the use of presence/absence data from individual sites to document colonization and extinction and to identify winner and loser species (Lockwood et al., 2000; Rahel, 2000; McKinney, 2002, 2004).”
Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, background): “…non-native species and alterations of habitat typically result in the loss of particular sets of species at the local scale, yet at the regional scale — and sometimes locally also — the net effect may commonly be increases in species richness (McKinney, 2002; Sax et al., 2002; Sax & Gaines, 2003).”
Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010 (2012, background): “…including demographic shifts from rural to urban areas, increased construction of large and small dams, increased alteration of natural water bodies (e.g., channelization, pollution), and other consequences of economic growth and industrial expansion (CEC 2001, McKinney 2002, De Souza et al. 2003).”
Variation in plant species richness of different life forms along a subtropical elevation gradient in the Himalayas, east Nepal (2003, background): “Human disturbance of natural vegetation may actually increase the species richness (Huston, 1994; McKinney, 2002) if a new habitat is created and enough species are left of the original vegetation.”
The flora of German cities is naturally species rich (2004, background): “This pattern was confirmed on several scales and for various European regions (Haeupler, 1975; Klotz, 1990; Pyšek, 1993; Kowarik, 1995; Araújo, 2003; but see Roy et al., 1999) and North America (Dobson et al., 2001; McKinney, 2002a; Hope et al., 2003).”