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Biodiversity in cities needs space: a meta‐analysis of factors determining intra‐urban biodiversity variation
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Understanding varying levels of biodiversity within cities is pivotal to protect it in the face of global urbanisation. In the early stages of urban ecology studies on intra‐urban biodiversity focused on the urban–rural gradient, representing a broad generalisation of features of the urban landscape. Increasingly, studies classify the urban landscape in more detail, quantifying separately the effects of individual urban features on biodiversity levels. However, while separate factors influencing biodiversity variation among cities worldwide have recently been analysed, a global analysis on the factors influencing biodiversity levels within cities is still lacking. We here present the first meta‐analysis on intra‐urban biodiversity variation across a large variety of taxonomic groups of 75 cities worldwide. Our results show that patch area and corridors have the strongest positive effects on biodiversity, complemented by vegetation structure. Local, biotic and management habitat variables were significantly more important than landscape, abiotic or design variables. Large sites greater than 50 ha are necessary to prevent a rapid loss of area‐sensitive species. This indicates that, despite positive impacts of biodiversity‐friendly management, increasing the area of habitat patches and creating a network of corridors is the most important strategy to maintain high levels of urban biodiversity.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beninde, J., Veith, M., & Hochkirch, A.
- Venue
- Ecology Letters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-04-10
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 581-592
- ISSN
- 1461-023X (ISSN-L)
- 1461-0248
- OpenAlex
- W2094605934
- Cited by
- 1,249
- References
- 86
- FWCI
- 72.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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