Cities’ “Profound Homogenizing Effect”

Intriguing paragraph from recent doctoral thesis on the merits of native plant and seed collectors:

… the problem of the loss of biodiversity faces significant challenges in gaining the public’s attention. For example, cities not only threaten biodiversity through the direct conversion of habitat, they have a profound homogenizing effect on biodiversity (McKinney, 2006; Miller, 2005; Ricketts & Imhoff, 2003). Consequently, since most people now live in cities, most people only experience biological uniformity (Miller, 2005). Therefore, within the day-to-day life of most people, the world seems to function quite fine with low biological diversity.

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