Biodiversity, networks and people

Marco Pautassomarpauta at gmail.com,

LSE, 5 May 2011

Areogram of number of botanic gardens per country (from worldmapper.org)

Some recent studies of the species-people correlation

World wilderness map from: UNEP-WCMC World Atlas of Biodiversity, GIS analysis by R. Lesslie (ANU), method developed for the Australian Heritage Commission

Balmfordet al. (2001) ScienceReal et al.

(2003) J Biogeog

McKinney (2003) Biol Cons

Vazquez & Gaston (2006) Biodiv & Cons

Chown et al. (2003) Ecol Appl

Luck (2007)J Biogeog

Araujo(2003) GEB

Hunter & Jonzon(1993) CB

Ding et al. (2006) J Biogeog

Moreno-Rueda &

Pizarro (2008) Ecol Res

Diniz-Filho et al. (2006) Acta Oecol

from: Chiari et al. (2010) Journal of Animal Ecology

Locally, the spp-people correlation tends to be negative

birds in Florence

n = 2877, r2 = 0.18, y = 1.75+ 0.22x, p < 0.0001

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A positive species-people correlation for vascular plants in US counties

Data from the Synthesis of the North American Flora

Does sampling bias explain the positive regional species-people correlation?

from: Pautasso & McKinney (2007) Conservation Biology

US counties with (•) or without (o) Universities and/or Botanical Gardens

from: Pautasso & McKinney (2007) Conservation Biology

• N = 692, r2 = 0.13, y = 2.15 (SE = 0.08) + 0.15 (SE = 0.01) x, p < 0.0001

o N = 2187, r2 = 0.10, y = 2.18 (SE = 0.05) + 0.15 (SE = 0.01) x, p < 0.0001

from: Lonsdale et al. (2008) European Journal of Forest Research

Random sample of 100 papers per year on ‘species richness’ in WOS (1991-2004)

Global biodiversity patterns: vascular plants

from Barthlott et al. (2007) Erdkunde

From: Hufnagel et al. (2005) PNAS (air) & Kaluza et al. (2010) Interface (sea)

Plant (and botanist) movements in a globalized world

passengers

NATURAL

TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIAL

food webs

airport networks

cell metabolism

neural networks

railway networks

ant nests

WWWInternet

electrical power grids

software mapscomputing

gridsE-mail

patterns

innovation flows

telephone calls

co-authorship nets

family networks

committees

sexual partnerships

disease spread

Food web of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin, US

Internet structure

Network pictures from: Newman (2003) SIAM Review

HIV spread

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Some recent applications of network theory

urban road networks

from: Moslonka-Lefebvre et al. (2011) Phytopathology

Biodiversity conservation at the interface between disciplines

Kiss et al. (2010) Journal of Informetrics

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Plant health policy/governance quadrangle

Acknowledgements

Claude Steck, Birmensdorf

Mike Jeger, Silwood

Ingrid Parmentier,

Bruxelles

Kevin Gaston,

Sheffield

Diego Fontaneto,Stockholm

Birgit & Florian Schlick-Steiner, Innsbruck

Mike McKinney, Knoxville

Lorenzo Marini, Padova

Alessandro Chiarucci,

Siena

Susanne Fritz, Copenhagen

Ottmar Holdenrieder, Zurich

Peter Weisberg, Reno

Glen Powell, London

Mathieu Moslonka-Lefebvre, Paris

Tom Harwood, Canberra

Caroline Pecher, Bozen

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