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_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Liverpoolen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationSmithsonian Conservation Biology Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Greenwichen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_US
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Museums of Kenyaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationsen_US
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Healthen_US
cg.contributor.donorBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdomen_US
cg.contributor.donorMedical Research Council, United Kingdomen_US
cg.contributor.donorNatural Environment Research Council, United Kingdomen_US
cg.contributor.donorEconomic and Social Research Council, United Kingdomen_US
cg.contributor.donorWellcome Trusten_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierJames Hassell: 0000-0002-4710-2827en_US
cg.creator.identifierJudy Bettridge: 0000-0002-3917-4660en_US
cg.creator.identifierDishon Muloi: 0000-0002-6236-2280en_US
cg.creator.identifierFrancesco Pietro Fava: 0000-0003-3748-7417en_US
cg.creator.identifierEric M. Fèvre: 0000-0001-8931-4986en_US
cg.creator.identifierTimothy Robinson: 0000-0002-4266-963Xen_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15412en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1354-1013en_US
cg.issue4en_US
cg.journalGlobal Change Biologyen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriAGRI-HEALTHen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen_US
cg.subject.ilriBIODIVERSITYen_US
cg.subject.ilriHUMAN HEALTHen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.ilriWILDLIFEen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food securityen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on landen_US
cg.volume27en_US
dc.contributor.authorHassell, James M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBettridge, Judy M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWard, Melissa J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorOgendo, Allanen_US
dc.contributor.authorImboma, Titusen_US
dc.contributor.authorMuloi, Dishon M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorFava, Francesco P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Timothy P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBegon, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorFèvre, Eric M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-03T17:04:07Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-12-03T17:04:07Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110388en_US
dc.titleSocio‐ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human‐animal interfaces across an urban landscapeen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2020-12en_US
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_US
dcterms.extentp. 781-792en_US
dcterms.issued2021-02en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherWileyen_US
dcterms.subjectbiodiversityen_US
dcterms.subjecturbanizationen_US
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen_US
dcterms.subjectwildlifeen_US
dcterms.subjectlivestocken_US
dcterms.subjecthealthen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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