Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2002
A the many human activities that cause habitat loss (Czech et al. 2000), urban development produces some of the greatest local extinction rates and frequently eliminates the large majority of native…
Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental Science
- 2006
Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental ScienceUrban Ecosystems
- 29 January 2008
105 studies on the effects of urbanization on the species richness of non-avian species: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and plants are reviewed, including the importance of nonnative species importation, spatial heterogeneity, intermediate disturbance and scale as major factors influencing species richness.
Extinction Vulnerability and Selectivity: Combining Ecological and Paleontological Views
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 1 November 1997
This work has shown that replacement of vulnerable taxa by rapidly spreading taxa that thrive in human-altered environments will ultimately produce a spatially more homogenized biosphere with much lower net diversity.
Origins of Intelligence
- S. Parker, M. Mckinney
- PsychologySpringer US
- 1983
Although substantial progress has been made on the question of the origin of life less progress can be seen concerning the origins of intelligence There is not even general agreement of what…
Effects of human population, area, and time on non-native plant and fish diversity in the United States
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 2001
Influence of settlement time, human population, park shape and age, visitation and roads on the number of alien plant species in protected areas in the USA
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2002
Abstract. I examined a data set of 77 protected areas in the USA (including national and state parks) to determine which of the following variables most strongly influence alien plant species…
Do Exotics Homogenize or Differentiate Communities? Roles of Sampling and Exotic Species Richness
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental ScienceBiological Invasions
- 1 December 2004
Using the plant inventories of 20 localities in the United States to measure whether exotic plant increased the similarity of those localities, it is found that JI for both exotic and native species decline exponentially with increasing distance and latitude separation between localities so that localities that share many native species also tend to share many exotic species.
Pattern and process of biotic homogenization in the New Pangaea
- B. Baiser, J. Olden, S. Record, J. Lockwood, M. Mckinney
- Environmental ScienceProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 7 December 2012
The results show that biotic homogenization is truly a global phenomenon and put into question many of the ecological mechanisms invoked in previous studies to explain patterns of homogenized patterns.
Measuring floristic homogenization by non‐native plants in North America
- M. Mckinney
- Environmental Science
- 9 January 2004
Findings provide quantitative support for the widely held, but rarely tested, notion that non-native species tend to homogenize biological communities because they are more commonly shared among communities.
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