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Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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  • Amy K. Hahs, University of Melbourne
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  • Bertrand Fournier, University of Potsdam
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  • Myla F.J. Aronson, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
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  • Charles H. Nilon, University of Missouri
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  • Adriana Herrera-Montes, University of Puerto Rico
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  • Allyson B. Salisbury, Morton Arboretum
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  • Caragh G. Threlfall, University of Sydney, Macquarie University
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  • Christine C. Rega-Brodsky, Pittsburg State University
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  • Christopher A. Lepczyk, Auburn University
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  • Frank A. La Sorte, Cornell University
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  • Ian MacGregor-Fors, University of Helsinki
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  • J. Scott MacIvor, University of Toronto
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  • Kirsten Jung, Ulm University
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  • Max R. Piana, United States Department of Agriculture
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  • Nicholas S.G. Williams, University of Melbourne
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  • Sonja Knapp, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Technical University of Berlin
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  • Alan Vergnes, Universite de Montpellier
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  • Aldemar A. Acevedo, Universidad Austral de Chile
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  • Alison M. Gainsbury, University of South Florida
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  • Ana Rainho, University of Lisbon
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  • Andrew J. Hamer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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  • Assaf Shwartz, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
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  • Christian C. Voigt, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
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  • Daniel Lewanzik, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
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  • David M. Lowenstein, Michigan State University
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  • David O’Brien, Scottish Natural Heritage
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  • Desiree Tommasi, University of California at Santa Cruz
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  • Eduardo Pineda, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
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  • Ela Sita Carpenter, United States Fish & Wildlife Service
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  • Elena Belskaya, RAS - Ural Branch
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  • Gábor L. Lövei
  • James C. Makinson, Western Sydney University
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  • Joanna L. Coleman, City University of New York
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  • Jon P. Sadler, University of Birmingham
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  • Jordan Shroyer, University of Missouri
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  • Julie Teresa Shapiro, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
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  • Katherine C.R. Baldock, Northumbria University, University of Bristol
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  • Kelly Ksiazek-Mikenas, Elmhurst University
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  • Kevin C. Matteson, University of Miami
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  • Kyle Barrett, Clemson University
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  • Lizette Siles, Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny
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  • Luis F. Aguirre, Universidad Mayor de San Simon
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  • Luis Orlando Armesto, Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA)
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  • Marcin Zalewski, Polish Academy of Sciences
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  • Maria Isabel Herrera-Montes, Universidad del Valle
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  • Martin K. Obrist, Domain of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Domain)
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  • Rebecca K. Tonietto, University of Michigan-Flint
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  • Sara A. Gagné, University of North Carolina
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  • Sarah J. Hinners, University of Utah
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  • Tanya Latty, University of Sydney
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  • Thilina D. Surasinghe, Bridgewater State University
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  • Thomas Sattler, Swiss Ornithological Institute
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  • Tibor Magura, University of Debrecen
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  • Werner Ulrich, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
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  • Zoltan Elek, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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  • Jennifer Castañeda-Oviedo, Universidad de Pamplona
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  • Ricardo Torrado, Secretaría de Educación del Municipio de Cúcuta
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  • D. Johan Kotze, University of Helsinki
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  • Marco Moretti, Domain of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Domain)

Cities can host significant biological diversity. Yet, urbanisation leads to the loss of habitats, species, and functional groups. Understanding how multiple taxa respond to urbanisation globally is essential to promote and conserve biodiversity in cities. Using a dataset encompassing six terrestrial faunal taxa (amphibians, bats, bees, birds, carabid beetles and reptiles) across 379 cities on 6 continents, we show that urbanisation produces taxon-specific changes in trait composition, with traits related to reproductive strategy showing the strongest response. Our findings suggest that urbanisation results in four trait syndromes (mobile generalists, site specialists, central place foragers, and mobile specialists), with resources associated with reproduction and diet likely driving patterns in traits associated with mobility and body size. Functional diversity measures showed varied responses, leading to shifts in trait space likely driven by critical resource distribution and abundance, and taxon-specific trait syndromes. Maximising opportunities to support taxa with different urban trait syndromes should be pivotal in conservation and management programmes within and among cities. This will reduce the likelihood of biotic homogenisation and helps ensure that urban environments have the capacity to respond to future challenges. These actions are critical to reframe the role of cities in global biodiversity loss.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer4751
TidsskriftNature Communications
Vol/bind14
Nummer1
Antal sider14
ISSN2041-1723
DOI
StatusUdgivet - dec. 2023

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
This research was conducted as part of the Urban Biodiversity Research Coordination Network (UrBioNet) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF RCN: DEB 1354676/1355151). We initiated this project as part of the Workshop Group “Patterns, Drivers and Traits” of the Urban Biodiversity Research Coordination Network (UrBioNet, https://sites.rutgers.edu/urbionet/dsg/ ). We would like to thank Madhusan Katti, Christopher Trisos, and Julie Goodness for helping to conceptualise the study at the New Jersey workshop; Eliana Geretz and Carmela M. Buono for assistance with initial data compilation; Laurence Packer, Michael Batley, Stuart Roberts for bee trait expertise; and Béla Tóthmérész, Cecilia Tobar-Suárez, Etienne Normandin, Gary Luck, Lisa Smallbone, Maryna Kyrychenko-Babko, Rebecca Acosta, Yocoyani Meza-Parral for providing data included in this study. C.G.T. was also supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Fellowship (DE200101226).

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