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

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10481059" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10481059 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/24:98810 RIV/61989592:15310/24:73628303
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bQQT5~nnzm" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bQQT5~nnzm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108945" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.isci.2024.108945</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dense city centers support less evolutionary unique bird communities than sparser urban areas
Original language description
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 their evolutionary distinctiveness. We compare species assemblages in a gradient of building density in seventeen European cities to test whether the evolutionary distinctiveness of communities is shaped by the degree of urbanization. We found a significant decline in the evolutionary uniqueness of avian communities in highly dense urban areas, compared to low and medium -dense areas. Overall, communities from dense city centers supported one million years of evolutionary history less than communities from low -dense urban areas. Such evolutionary homogenization was due to a filtering process of the most evolutionarily unique birds. Metrics related to evolutionary uniqueness have to play a role when assessing the effects of urbanization and can be used to identify local conservation priorities.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-16738S" target="_blank" >GA18-16738S: Effects of urbanization on multilevel avian diversity: linking bird community metrics to pollution level, vegetation and building density</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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