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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Liverpoolen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationSmithsonian Conservation Biology Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Greenwichen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Museums of Kenyaen
cg.contributor.affiliationFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationsen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.donorBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorMedical Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorNatural Environment Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorEconomic and Social Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorWellcome Trusten
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierJames Hassell: 0000-0002-4710-2827en
cg.creator.identifierJudy Bettridge: 0000-0002-3917-4660en
cg.creator.identifierDishon Muloi: 0000-0002-6236-2280en
cg.creator.identifierFrancesco Pietro Fava: 0000-0003-3748-7417en
cg.creator.identifierEric M. Fèvre: 0000-0001-8931-4986en
cg.creator.identifierTimothy Robinson: 0000-0002-4266-963Xen
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15412en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1354-1013en
cg.issue4en
cg.journalGlobal Change Biologyen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriAGRI-HEALTHen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen
cg.subject.ilriBIODIVERSITYen
cg.subject.ilriHUMAN HEALTHen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriWILDLIFEen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on landen
cg.volume27en
dc.contributor.authorHassell, James M.en
dc.contributor.authorBettridge, Judy M.en
dc.contributor.authorWard, Melissa J.en
dc.contributor.authorOgendo, Allanen
dc.contributor.authorImboma, Titusen
dc.contributor.authorMuloi, Dishon M.en
dc.contributor.authorFava, Francesco P.en
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Timothy P.en
dc.contributor.authorBegon, Michaelen
dc.contributor.authorFèvre, Eric M.en
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-03T17:04:07Zen
dc.date.available2020-12-03T17:04:07Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110388
dc.titleSocio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscapeen
dcterms.abstractUrbanization 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.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2020-12en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHassell, 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.en
dcterms.extentp. 781-792en
dcterms.issued2021-02en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.subjectbiodiversityen
dcterms.subjecturbanizationen
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen
dcterms.subjectwildlifeen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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