Dense city centers support less evolutionary unique bird communities than sparser urban areas

Dense city centers support less evolutionary unique bird communities than sparser urban areas

Summary: Urbanization alters avian communities, generally lowering the number of species and contemporaneously increasing their functional relatedness, leading to biotic homogenization. Urbanization can also negatively affect the phylogenetic diversity of species assemblages, potentially decreasing...

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Main Authors: Federico Morelli, Jiri Reif, Mario Díaz, Piotr Tryjanowski, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Jukka Suhonen, Jukka Jokimäki, Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki, Anders Pape Møller, Leszek Jerzak, Raphaël Bussière, Marko Mägi, Theodoros Kominos, Antonia Galanaki, Nikos Bukas, Gábor Markó, Fabio Pruscini, Olaf Ciebiera, Yanina Benedetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-02-01
Series:iScience
Subjects:
Ecology
Ornithology
Evolutionary biology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224001664

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