Cities are hotspots for threatened species

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 117 - 126
• Main Authors: Ives, Christopher D, Lentini, Pia E, Threlfall, Caragh G, Ikin, Karen, Shanahan, Danielle F, Garrard, Georgia E, Bekessy, Sarah A, Fuller, Richard A, Mumaw, Laura, Rayner, Laura, Rowe, Ross, Valentine, Leonie E, Kendal, Dave
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Science 01.01.2016; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Animals; Australia; biodiversity; cities; coasts; Conservation; conservation policy; Endangered & extinct species; Flowers & plants; islands; issues and policy; people; planning; plants (botany); primary productivity; species distributions; species diversity; Tasmania; threatened species; Urban areas; urbanization; Tasmania; PSE, Australia, Tasmania

AIM: Although urbanization impacts many species, there is little information on the patterns of occurrences of threatened species in urban relative to non‐urban areas. By assessing the extent of the distribution of threatened species across all Australian cities, we aim to investigate the currently...