Birds and climate change: impacts and conservation responses

JW Pearce-Higgins, RE Green - 2014 - books.google.com
From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can
provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems …

Biodiversity impacts of bioenergy production: Microalgae vs. first generation biofuels

DF Correa, HL Beyer, HP Possingham… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy and fuel demands, which are currently met primarily using fossil fuels, are expected
to increase substantially in the coming decades. Burning fossil fuels results in the increase …

Integrating morphological spatial pattern analysis and the minimal cumulative resistance model to optimize urban ecological networks: A case study in Shenzhen City …

YY Li, YZ Zhang, ZY Jiang, CX Guo, MY Zhao… - Ecological …, 2021 - Springer
Background With the increasing fragmentation of landscape induced by rapid urbanization,
the construction of ecological networks is of great significance to alleviate the degradation of …

Ecological network construction of the heterogeneous agro-pastoral areas in the upper Yellow River basin

F Shi, S Liu, Y Sun, Y An, S Zhao, Y Liu, M Li - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing landscape heterogeneity in the agro-pastoral areas and the contradiction
between the development and biodiversity conservation is becoming more and more …

Detecting the response of bird communities and biodiversity to habitat loss and fragmentation due to urbanization

X Xu, Y Xie, K Qi, Z Luo, X Wang - Science of the total environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Birds are considered a good model for indicators of biodiversity response to habitat
variations, as they are very sensitive to environmental change. However, continuous …

The principal factors responsible for biodiversity loss

V Singh, S Shukla, A Singh - Open Journal of Plant Science, 2021 - agriscigroup.us
The exclusive attribute of the planet earth is the presence of life, and the remarkable trait of
life is the variety or the diversity, which is also known as biodiversity. As per ScienceDaily …

Inter-individual variability in fear of humans and relative brain size of the species are related to contemporary urban invasion in birds

M Carrete, JL Tella - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Urbanization is the most prevailing cause of habitat transformation worldwide,
differing from others by its intense levels of human activity. Despite its obvious impact on …

[PDF][PDF] 城市生物多样性分布格局研究进展

毛齐正, 马克明, 邬建国, 唐荣莉, 张育新, 罗上华… - 生态学报, 2013 - files.in5.cn
城市生物多样性分布格局由自然生态环境和城市化过程所决定; 其动态和机理与自然生态系统
迥然不同. 城市生物多样性为城市生态系统提供了诸多生态系统功能和服务, 对改善城市环境 …

Urban conservation hotspots: predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city

N Rebolo-Ifrán, JL Tella, M Carrete - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Although habitat transformation is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss, there are
many examples of species successfully occupying and even proliferating in highly human …

[PDF][PDF] 城市绿地生态评价研究进展

毛齐正, 罗上华, 马克明, 邬建国, 唐荣莉, 张育新… - 生态学报, 2012 - m.duniagaib.com
城市绿地的科学评价为绿地的规划和管理提供了参考, 对人们正确认识和改造绿地建设起着重要
的作用, 为城市绿地生态功能的发挥提供了重要的依据和保障. 以绿地结构的评价为基础 …