Socio-ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human-animal interfaces across an urban landscape.

ABSTRACT: 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 thes

SUBMITTER: Hassell JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7983883 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature