Threats and biodiversity in the mediterranean biome

By Emma Underwood, Joshua H. Viers, Kirk R Klausmeyer, R. Cox, M. Shaw. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Impacts of alien plant invasions on species richness in Mediterranean-type ecosystems: a meta-analysis (2009, background): “, 1992; Rejmánek and Randall, 1994) and the problem of alien plant invasions is widely recognized as a major threat to biodiversity in all MTEs today (Rejmánek and Randall, 1994; Rouget et al., 2003; Seabloom et al., 2006; Underwood et al., 2009).”
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies of Agriculture in Mediterranean-Climate Regions (MCRs) (2019, background): “However, genetically-modified plants are still not accepted in some countries of the MCRs (e.g., most of the European countries, Chile) because GMOs are considered a technology with high potential risk for the people and the environment.”
Using species distribution modelling to disentangle realised versus potential distributions for rare species conservation (2013, background): “The Mediterranean Basin is a threatened biodiversity hotspot with a high human population density (Cincotta et al., 2000; Myers et al., 2000; Underwood et al., 2009) driving important processes of land use change, habitat fragmentation and habitat loss, especially in coastal areas (Vogiatzakis et al”
Climate change, wine, and conservation (2013, background): “Mediterranean climate regions (warm and dry summers; cool and wet winter) are particularly suitable for viticulture (4), while at the same time having high levels of biodiversity, endemism and habitat loss, making them global biodiversity hotspots (12-14).”
Genetic factors in threatened species recovery plans on three continents (2016, background): “Australia has lower human population densities than Europe and the US but has seen negative environmental impacts from numerous introductions of non- native species in addition to habitat loss and fragmentation due to rapid, massive land- clearing (Underwood et al. 2009).”
OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (2009, background): “Simplification of the complex geographical pattern of OCBIL biota with surrogates such as broad vegetation types (e.g. Underwood et al. 2009a, b) is similarly unhelpful, leading to conservation recommendations that ignore where the real major problems and priorities for biodiversity conservation…”
Resolving conflicts in fire management using decision theory: asset‐protection versus biodiversity conservation (2010, background): “The result is that the extent of housing development can be positively correlated with the number of threatened species (Underwood et al. 2009), with the threatened species occurring in the same areas that are zoned for frequent planned burning.”