Are Urbanisation and Biodiversity Antithetical? A Bibliometric Analysis
Urbanisation is a process that negatively affects biodiversity. Many scholars report that natural habitats suffer from urban development. The habitats of plant and animal species shrink because of the fragmentation of ecosystems caused by urbanisation. This leads to the extinction of endemic species...
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| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Coğrafya Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/9DC58E724CA7416C96B3E04C0741B096 |
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| Summary: | Urbanisation is a process that negatively affects biodiversity. Many scholars report that natural habitats suffer from urban development. The habitats of plant and animal species shrink because of the fragmentation of ecosystems caused by urbanisation. This leads to the extinction of endemic species and a decline in the number of resident species. The main interest of the present study was to examine how urban expansion relates to biodiversity. To this end, a basic search on Scopus using the keywords “biodiversity” and “urban” was made, later which was filtered with the keyword “loss”. The obtained final total of 1827 documents were recorded and then subjected to the bibliometric network analysis by using the tool named Bibliometrix. These studies conclude in sum that half of the world's forests and a significant proportion of wetlands have been destroyed over the past few centuries. Moreover, millions of people die each year from air pollution, and one billion of the world's population suffers from chronic hunger. The 1827 documents retrieved date back to the 1990s, suggesting that more in-depth research is required to determine the potential impacts of urbanisation on the wetlands and forestry and consequently on the habitat of animal and plant species. |
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| ISSN: | 1305-2128 |