The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world’s cities is scale dependent

0456228 - BÚ 2016 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Yang, J. - La Sorte, F. A. - Pyšek, Petr - Yan, P. - Nowak, D. - McBride, J.
The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world’s cities is scale dependent.
Global Ecology and Biogeography. Roč. 24, č. 12 (2015), s. 1413-1423. ISSN 1466-822X. E-ISSN 1466-8238
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) AP1002
Program: Akademická prémie - Praemium Academiae
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : woody species * urban * homogenization
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 5.840, year: 2015

Compositional similarity of urban forests is a scaledependent phenomenon that is not affected by the presence or absence of nonnative species, suggesting a limited role for biotic interchange in promoting homogenization. However, compositional similarity across spatial scales increased uniformly with the addition of abundance information, suggesting that patterns of abundance may have greater biological relevance when homogenization trends among urban forests are considered.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0256787