Botanic gardens, human well-being, tree species distribution shifts, invasive species, risk management, sea-level rise, climate according to Walter & Lieth, land use patterns, carbon emissions of conservation biologists, NIMBY, topography

1. Biodiversity Conservation – week 10
London Metropolitan Univ. - 2010
Marco Pautasso (marpauta at gmail.com)

2. Biodiversity and human well-being
Townsend et al. (2007) Urban Forestry and Greening

3. Why visiting a botanic garden?
Ward et al. (2010) Urban Forestry and Greening

4. Why visiting a botanic garden?

5. Tree species distribution shifts after the last ice age
Hannah (2010) Conservation Biology

6. Living collections of the world’s botanic gardens
Botanica Helvetica (2007)

7. Reversed latitudinal gradient for the species richness
of the world’s botanic gardens
Botanica Helvetica (2007)

8. Area vs. age and latitude vs. age for the world’s botanic gardens
Botanica Helvetica (2007)

9. Human impacts on biodiversity
Habitat fragmentation, degradation and loss
Water, air and soil pollution
Species introductions
Climate change
Trade, travel, transportation and tourism

10. Mawdsley et al. (2010) Conservation Biology

11. Biological Reviews (2010)

12. Climate change and trade route shifts
Source: UNEP

13. Trade route shifts and pollution
Prowse et al. (2009) Ambio

14. Multiple risks in
Lombardia, Italy
floods/
wildfire
landslides
earthquakes meteorological
industrial road accidents
work injuries Lari et al. (2009) Natural
Hazards and Earth
Systems Science

15. Fires, people and land use in the Mediterranean
Syphard et al. (2009)
Conservation Biology

16. Lejeusne et al. (2010) Trends in Ecology & Evolution

17. Projected sea-level rise
Wiens et al. (2010) Conservation Biology

18. Invasive species: some terms
Native
Cryptogenic
Trailing Edge
Invasion
Founder
population
Alien
Voltinism
Introduction
Naturalization
Casual
Walther et al.
(2009) Trends
in Ecology &
Evolution

19. Invasive species and climate change
Walther et al. (2009) Trends in Ecology & Evolution

20. Climate change and spatial scale
Wiens et al. (2010) Conservation Biology

21. Climate change
and ecosystem
shifts
Bradley (2009) Ecography

22. Climate change and plant distribution shifts
From: Denis Loustau (2006) Wilton Park Conference

23. Climate change and shifts in tree species distribution
Fuhrer et al. (2006) Climatic Change

24. Climate change and topography
Wiens et al. (2010) Conservation Biology

25. Temperature vs. precipitation change
Wiens et al. (2010) Conservation Biology

26. Mediterranean climate
Walter & Lieth (1967) Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas

27. Temperate (cool) oceanic climate
Walter & Lieth (1967) Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas

28. Tropical wet climate
Walter & Lieth (1967) Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas

29. Tropical climate with dry/wet season
Walter & Lieth (1967) Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas

30. The tropics defined in terms of temperatures
Wright et al. (2009) Conservation Biology

31. Tropics, temperatures and land use
Wright et al. (2009) Conservation Biology

32. Climate change,
glaciers and
water availability
Xu et al. (2009)
Conservation Biology

33. [CO2]
from MacKay (2008) Sustainable Energy

34. [CO2]
Psenner & Sattler (2009) EURAC Conference

35. Carbon emissions of conservation biologists
Fox et al. (2009) Frontiers in the Ecology and the Environment

36. CO2 emissions (2000) per person per country
from MacKay (2009) Sustainable Energy

37. NIMBY
from MacKay (2009) Sustainable Energy

38. References
Harwood TD, Xu XM, Pautasso M, Jeger MJ & Shaw M (2009) Epidemiological risk assessment using linked network and grid based modelling: Phytophthora
ramorum and P. kernoviae in the UK. Ecological Modelling 220: 3353-3361
Jeger MJ & Pautasso M (2008) Plant disease and global change – the importance of long-term data sets. New Phytologist 177: 8-11
MacLeod A, Pautasso M, Jeger MJ & Haines-Young R (2010) Evolution of the international regulation of plant pests and challenges for future plant health. Food
Security 2: 49-70
Moslonka-Lefebvre M, Pautasso M & Jeger MJ (2009) Disease spread in small-size directed networks: epidemic threshold, correlation between links to and
from nodes, and clustering. Journal of Theoretical Biology 260: 402-411
Moslonka-Lefebvre M, Finley A, Dorigatti I, Dehnen-Schmutz K, Harwood T, Jeger MJ, Xu XM, Holdenrieder O & Pautasso M (2011) Networks in plant
epidemiology: from genes to landscapes, countries and continents. Phytopathology 101: 392-403
Pautasso M (2009) Geographical genetics and the conservation of forest trees. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Systematics & Evolution 11: 157-189
Pautasso M & Chiarucci A (2008) A test of the scale-dependence of the species abundance-people correlation for veteran trees in Italy. Annals of Botany 101:
709-715
Pautasso M & Dinetti M (2009) Avian species richness, human population and protected areas across Italy’s regions. Environmental Conservation 36: 22-31
Pautasso M & Fontaneto D (2008) A test of the species-people correlation for stream macro-invertebrates in European countries. Ecological Applications 18:
1842-1849
Pautasso M & Jeger MJ (2008) Epidemic threshold and network structure: the interplay of probability of transmission and of persistence in directed networks.
Ecological Complexity 5: 1-8
Pautasso M & Powell G (2009) Aphid biodiversity is correlated with human population in European countries. Oecologia 160: 839-846
Pautasso M & Weisberg PJ (2008) Density-area relationships: the importance of the zeros. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 203-210
Pautasso M & Zotti M (2009) Macrofungal taxa and human population in Italy's regions. Biodiversity & Conservation 18: 473-485
Pautasso M et al (2010) Plant health and global change – some implications for landscape management. Biological Reviews 85: 729-755
Pautasso M et al (2011) Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems. Global Ecology & Biogeography 20: 426-436
Pecher C, Fritz S, Marini L, Fontaneto D & Pautasso M (2010) Scale-dependence of the correlation between human population and the species richness of
stream macroinvertebrates. Basic Applied Ecology 11: 272-280
Schlick-Steiner B, Steiner F & Pautasso M (2008) Ants and people: a test of two mechanisms behind the large-scale human-biodiversity correlation for
Formicidae in Europe. Journal of Biogeography 35: 2195-2206
Steck CE & Pautasso M (2008) Human population, grasshopper and plant species richness in European countries. Acta Oecologica 34: 303-310
Xu XM, Harwood TD, Pautasso M & Jeger MJ (2009) Spatio-temporal analysis of an invasive plant pathogen (Phytophthora ramorum) in England and Wales.
Ecography 32: 504-516