Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

By M. Mckinney. Urban Ecosystems, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes (2021, neutral): “Although ur-banisation is regarded as a major threat to biodiversity (Chace & Walsh, 2006; McKinney, 2008; Seto et al., 2012), insect pollinators, particularly bees, can show a surprising degree of tolerance towards urban habitats (Baldock, 2020; Hall et al., 2017; Wenzel et al., 2020).”
Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major) (2017, neutral): “Overall, cities are characterized by multiple severe environmental modifications that certainly raise new important developmental constraints for wild vertebrates (Clergeau et al., 2006; McKinney, 2008; Gil and Brumm, 2014).”
Humans, bees, and pollination services in the city: the case of Chicago, IL (USA) (2014, neutral): “All of our sample locations—whether low or high in human population density—occupy what is usually considered the ‘‘urban core’’ of rural–urban gradients, deﬁned by McKinney (2008) as ‘‘hardscapes’’ with more than 50 % impervious surface.”
Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “Birds usually exhibit lower species richness and evenness in urban regions compared to more natural areas, with the lowest diversities documented in urban core areas (McKinney 2002, 2008).”
Eco-engineering urban infrastructure for marine and coastal biodiversity: Which interventions have the greatest ecological benefit? (2018, background): “…ecosystems in a variety of ways, including habitat 79 loss and fragmentation, as well as modification of ecological connectivity, ecosystem 80 functioning and services, and the physico-chemical environment (Fischer & Lindenmayer 81 2007; McKinney 2008; LaPoint et al. 2015; Bishop et al. 2017).”
Place value: place quality and its impact on health, social, economic and environmental outcomes (2018, background): “…are associated with poor ecosystem performance, but at any given density, there is substantial scope for maximizing ecological performance McKinney (2008) urbanization and species richness urbanization, density extreme urbanization (representative of urban cores) almost always reduces…”
The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes (2013, background): “However, urbanisation can also cause increases in biodiversity among particular taxa (McKinney, 2008).”
Biotic homogenization at the community scale: disentangling the roles of urbanization and plant invasion (2013, background): “…urban–rural gradients have found that intermediate levels of urban development often reflect the greatest species richness (McDonnell & Hahs, 2008; McKinney, 2008), and at larger spatial scales, the similarity in native species in urban regions decreased with decreasing levels of urbanization…”
Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas (2015, background): “Habitat: An important characteristic of urban areas is their mosaic of habitats and a surprisingly high diversity of plant and animal species [30–32].”
The relative performance of sampling methods for native bees: an empirical test and review of the literature (2020, background): “Urban habitats may differ from natural and agricultural ones in having higher plant species richness and habitat complexity (McKinney 2008, Faeth et al. 2011), which may alter the relative efficacy of different sampling methods (Templ et al. 2019).”