Global loss of avian evolutionary uniqueness in urban areas

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F17%3A74372" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/17:74372 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13567" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13567</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13567" target="_blank" >10.1111/gcb.13567</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Global loss of avian evolutionary uniqueness in urban areas
Original language description
Urbanization, one of the most important anthropogenic impacts on Earth, is rapidly expanding worldwide. This expansion of urban land-covered areas is known to significantly reduce different components of biodiversity. However, the global evidence for this effect is mainly focused on a single diversity measure (species richness) with a few local or regional studies also supporting reductions in functional diversity. We have used birds, an important ecological group that has been used as surrogate for other animals, to investigate the hypothesis that urbanization reduces the global taxonomical and/or evolutionary diversity. We have also explored whether there is evidence supporting that urban bird communities are evolutionarily homogenized worldwide in comparison with nonurban ones by means of using evolutionary distinctiveness (how unique are the species) of bird communities. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to quantify the effect of urbanization in more than one single diversity measure as
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
10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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