Energy, species richness, and human population size: conservation implications at a national scale

By Steven L. Chown, B. J. Rensburg, Kevin J. Gaston, A. Rodrigues, A. S. Jaarsveld. 2003

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Species Richness and Patterns of Invasion in Plants, Birds, and Fishes in the United States* (2006, background): “Modern humans have tended to settle in species-rich areas with favorable climates and natural amenities (Chown et al. 2003; Luck et al. 2004; Gaston and Evans 2004).”
Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge (2005, background): “(2001) for subsaharan Africa, and by Chown et al. (2003) for Southern Africa, also found a positive correlation between richness and measures of human impact.”
The distribution and spread of the invasive alien common myna, Acridotheres tristis L. (Aves: Sturnidae), in southern Africa (2007, background): “It is likely, given the common mynas’ close association with people, that its presence in protected areas is in part an indirect result of human distribution encroaching onto such sites.(40) The common myna’s range expansion has been particularly rapid and extensive in South Africa’s Limpopo provinc”
Bird species richness patterns of northern Taiwan: primary productivity, human population density, and habitat heterogeneity (2006, background): “…and Distributions, 12, 546–554, Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd positive relationships between species richness and human population density are commonly observed at regional scales (Balmford et al., 2001; Chown et al., 2003; Gaston & Evans, 2004; Evans & Gaston, 2005).”
Unprotecting the rare species: a niche‐based gap analysis for odonates in a core Cerrado area (2011, background): “A permanent conflict between the selection of areas for conservation and the use of new areas for economic development has set the tone for conservation proposals (Balmford et al., 2001; Chown et al., 2003; Pressey et al., 2004; Loyola et al., 2008); this conflict is probably more pronounced in deve”
Capturing biodiversity: selecting priority areas for conservation using different criteria (2005, background): “…there was a bias toward placing reserves along the borders of South Africa (Siegfried 1989), today, reserves are increasingly designated within the vicinity of human settlements (Chown et al. 2003), possibly in order to protect pristine sites from development, cultivation or other land degradation.”