Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape
Urbanization can have profound impacts on the distributional ecology of wildlife and livestock, with implications for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and human health. A wealth of studies have assessed biotic responses to urbanization in North America and Europe, but there is little em...
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| author | Hassell, James M. Bettridge, Judy M. Ward, Melissa J. Ogendo, Allan Imboma, Titus Muloi, Dishon M. Fava, Francesco P. Robinson, Timothy P. Begon, Michael Fèvre, Eric M. |
| author_browse | Begon, Michael Bettridge, Judy M. Fava, Francesco P. Fèvre, Eric M. Hassell, James M. Imboma, Titus Muloi, Dishon M. Ogendo, Allan Robinson, Timothy P. Ward, Melissa J. |
| author_facet | Hassell, James M. Bettridge, Judy M. Ward, Melissa J. Ogendo, Allan Imboma, Titus Muloi, Dishon M. Fava, Francesco P. Robinson, Timothy P. Begon, Michael Fèvre, Eric M. |
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| description | Urbanization can have profound impacts on the distributional ecology of wildlife and livestock, with implications for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and human health. A wealth of studies have assessed biotic responses to urbanization in North America and Europe, but there is little empirical evidence that directly links human activities to urban biodiversity in the tropics. Results from a large‐scale field study conducted in Nairobi, Kenya, are used to explore the impact of human activities on the biodiversity of wildlife and livestock with which humans co‐exist across the city. The structure of sympatric wildlife, livestock and human populations are characterized using unsupervised machine learning, and statistical modelling is used to relate compositional variation in these communities to socio‐ecological drivers occurring across the city. By characterizing landscape‐scale drivers acting on these interfaces, we demonstrate that socioeconomics, elevation and subsequent changes in habitat have measurable impacts upon the diversity, density and species assemblage of wildlife, livestock and humans. Restructuring of wildlife and livestock assemblages (both in terms of species diversity and composition) has important implications for the emergence of novel diseases at urban interfaces, and we therefore use our results to generate a set of testable hypotheses that explore the influence of urban change on microbial communities. These results provide novel insight into the impact of urbanization on biodiversity in the tropics. An understanding of associations between urban processes and the structure of human and animal populations is required to link urban development to conservation efforts and risks posed by disease emergence to human health, ultimately informing sustainable urban development policy. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1103882025-08-15T13:23:00Z Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape Hassell, James M. Bettridge, Judy M. Ward, Melissa J. Ogendo, Allan Imboma, Titus Muloi, Dishon M. Fava, Francesco P. Robinson, Timothy P. Begon, Michael Fèvre, Eric M. biodiversity urbanization animal diseases wildlife livestock health Urbanization can have profound impacts on the distributional ecology of wildlife and livestock, with implications for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and human health. A wealth of studies have assessed biotic responses to urbanization in North America and Europe, but there is little empirical evidence that directly links human activities to urban biodiversity in the tropics. Results from a large‐scale field study conducted in Nairobi, Kenya, are used to explore the impact of human activities on the biodiversity of wildlife and livestock with which humans co‐exist across the city. The structure of sympatric wildlife, livestock and human populations are characterized using unsupervised machine learning, and statistical modelling is used to relate compositional variation in these communities to socio‐ecological drivers occurring across the city. By characterizing landscape‐scale drivers acting on these interfaces, we demonstrate that socioeconomics, elevation and subsequent changes in habitat have measurable impacts upon the diversity, density and species assemblage of wildlife, livestock and humans. Restructuring of wildlife and livestock assemblages (both in terms of species diversity and composition) has important implications for the emergence of novel diseases at urban interfaces, and we therefore use our results to generate a set of testable hypotheses that explore the influence of urban change on microbial communities. These results provide novel insight into the impact of urbanization on biodiversity in the tropics. An understanding of associations between urban processes and the structure of human and animal populations is required to link urban development to conservation efforts and risks posed by disease emergence to human health, ultimately informing sustainable urban development policy. 2021-02 2020-12-03T17:04:07Z 2020-12-03T17:04:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110388 en Open Access Wiley Hassell, J.M., Bettridge, J.M., Ward, M.J., Ogendo, A., Imboma, T., Muloi, D., Fava, F., Robinson, T.P., Begon, M. and Fèvre, E.M. 2021. Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape. Global Change Biology 27(4): 781–792. |
| spellingShingle | biodiversity urbanization animal diseases wildlife livestock health Hassell, James M. Bettridge, Judy M. Ward, Melissa J. Ogendo, Allan Imboma, Titus Muloi, Dishon M. Fava, Francesco P. Robinson, Timothy P. Begon, Michael Fèvre, Eric M. Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape |
| title | Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape |
| title_full | Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape |
| title_fullStr | Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape |
| title_short | Socio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscape |
| title_sort | socio ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human animal interfaces across an urban landscape |
| topic | biodiversity urbanization animal diseases wildlife livestock health |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110388 |
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