Our results show that bird communities vary greatly along the different studied urban land-uses, which represent an urbanization development gradient.
In the past 50 years, reported incidence has increased 30-fold; dengue has expanded into new countries and into urban settings (22, 23 ) associated with population growth, urbanization, development of periurban slums, movement of virus by infected travelers, and improved diagnostic capabilities (21, 24 ).
Urbanization, development of the interior and investment in a low-carbon economy will sustain annual growth at more than 9 percent in the coming decade, according to Li Daokui, an economics professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
China experienced unprecedented urbanization development in the last two decades.
Our study area is Xiamen, China, where the recent urbanization development provides a natural experiment setting to reliably test our hypotheses.
Although we did not find a clear pattern of taxonomic homogenization related to urbanization, our results show that urbanization development entails the functional homogenization of bird communities.
Analysis of the interactions between pairs of ecosystem services identified urbanization development problems, including abandoned cropland and the expansion of rural residential land.
The significant role of the infrastructure systems – and thus their interconnections – is a key for the current urbanization development expected to increase within the next years.
The impact of regional urbanization development on the plant species richness was studied in this paper by taking Jinzhong Basin of Chinese Shanxi Province as the example.
It is subject to great environmental modification because of their dense population, and deterioration in the coastal land use patterns such as urbanization, development of industries and agricultural activities.
