Urbanization‐driven homogenization is more pronounced and happens at wider spatial scales in nocturnal and mobile flying insects

Merckx, Thomas;Van Dyck, Hans
(2019) Global Ecology and Biogeography : a journal of macroecology — Vol. 28, n° 10, p. 1440-1455 (2019)

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Aim We test whether urbanization drives biotic homogenization. We hypothesize that declines in abundance and species diversity of aerial insects are exacerbated by the urbanization-driven loss of species with low habitat generalism, mobility and warm-adaptedness. We predict this homogenization to be more pronounced for nocturnal taxa, and at wider scales for mobile taxa.
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Merckx, T., & Van Dyck, H. (2019). Urbanization‐driven homogenization is more pronounced and happens at wider spatial scales in nocturnal and mobile flying insects. Global Ecology and Biogeography : a journal of macroecology, 28(10), 1440-1455. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12969 (Original work published 2019)