Abstract
Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and manage urban biodiversity, one must understand both how biodiversity scales with city size, and how ecological, evolutionary, and socioeconomic drivers of biodiversity scale with city size. We show how environmental abiotic and biotic drivers, as well as human cultural and socioeconomic drivers, may act through ecological and evolutionary processes differently, at different scales, to influence patterns in urban biodiversity. Because relationships likely take linear and nonlinear forms, the need to describe the specific scaling relationships is highlighted, including deviations and potential inflection points, where different management strategies may successfully conserve urban biodiversity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 123-131 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Trends in Ecology and Evolution |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords
- biodiversity
- city
- cultural processes
- eco-evolutionary processes
- scaling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics