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SUBMITTER: Foord SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5940192 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Foord Stefan Hendrik SH Swanepoel Lourens Hendrik LH Evans Steven William SW Schoeman Colin Stefan CS Erasmus Barend Frederik N BFN Schoeman M Corrie MC Keith Mark M Smith Alain A Mauda Evans Vusani EV Maree Naudene N Nembudani Nkhumeleni N Dippenaar-Schoeman Anna Sophia AS Munyai Thinandavha Caswell TC Taylor Peter John PJ
PloS one 20180508 5
Human-dominated landscapes comprise the bulk of the world's terrestrial surface and Africa is predicted to experience the largest relative increase over the next century. A multi-scale approach is required to identify processes that maintain diversity in these landscapes. Here we identify scales at which animal diversity responds by partitioning regional diversity in a rural African agro-ecosystem between one temporal and four spatial scales. Human land use practices are the main driver of diver ...[more]