The impacts of human land-use change on avian diversity and associated ecosystem functions

Thesis

Understanding the impacts of land-use change on biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides is of great importance given unprecedented growth of the human population. Past studies attempting to explore these impacts have described the overall structure of communities (i.e. species richness and trait diversity) across gradients of local scale degradation and fragmentation, and have sought to identify whether the loss of species following land-use change is non-random. Yet, desp...

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Authors: Bregman, TP

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: habitat fragmentation; management practice; land-use change; biodiversity conservation; resilience; human-modified landscapes; ecological guilds
• Subjects: Zoological sciences; Ecology (zoology)