A dead letter? Urban conservation, management, and planning strategies from the Mexican urban bird literature
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A dead letter? Urban conservation, management, and planning strategies from the Mexican urban bird literature Ian MacGregor-Fors 1 & Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez 2 & Michelle García-Arroyo 1 & Carlos A. Chávez-Zichinelli 3
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Abstract Urbanization has been identified as one of the major causes of species endangerment. Albeit important efforts by urban ecologists, there are still understudied regions in the globe with an important bias toward bird studies. Fortunately, studies from biodiversity-rich regions are increasingly growing; yet, with few exceptions, most evidence-based suggested urban conservation, management, and planning strategies have remained in the publications. The aim of this study was to draw them from a ‘dead letter’ by compiling all available publications carried out in Mexican grounds that explicitly suggested strategies and/or actions that could influence bird conservation through urban management and/or planning. We identified three main topics of recommendations: (1) greenspace management and planning, (2) study and control of exotic, invasive, and/or nuisance species, and (3) public policies and conservation strategies and plans. It is clear that the recommendations from the reviewed Mexican urban bird literature provide a compelling guide to start bridging the gap between evidence-based knowledge and the materialization of their suggestions on the path toward creating biodiverse and livable cities. We believe that the transference of urban ecology knowledge relies on the willingness of all implied stakeholders, including scientists, urban citizens, and decision makers. Keywords Biodiversity . Evidence-based policy . Latin America . Literature review . Mexico . Neotropics . Urban ecology
Introduction Urbanization is the process through which modern housing needs are met by modifying, and even replacing, preexisting systems (Eldgredge and Horenstein 2014). Modern economies and globalization processes have led work source concentration toward cities, driving the urban migration pattern and thus the expansion of the urban fringe. The Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-00970-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Ian MacGregor-Fors [email protected]; [email protected] 1
Red de Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa 91073, Veracruz, Mexico
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Instituto de Biotecnología y Ecología Aplicada (INBIOTECA), Universidad Veracruzana, Avenida de las Culturas Veracruzanas 101, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Xalapa 91090, Veracruz, Mexico
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El Colegio de Puebla, A.C, Puebla, Mexico
environmental demands and pressures posed by the more than 4 billion urban citizens is unprecedented (i.e., 4.2 billion for 2018; United Nations 2018), with the resulting ecological footprint extending way beyond city limits (Wigginton et al. 2016). Not surprisingly, several
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