Publisher : ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
Place of publication :
Publication year : 2017
Thematic : Urban Biodiversity
Language : English
Note
Urban biodiversity encompasses the variety
of living organisms that have adapted and
are surviving in densely human-populated
built up environments. An urban ecosystem is
a human-dominated environment (Ernstson
et al., 2010) with mostly artificial habitats and
features. This ecosystem draws ecosystem
services from nearby habitats but at the same
time continues to expand outwards, upwards, or
both. Such movement encroaches on adjacent
farmlands, forests, and grasslands, and in
some cases, reclaims parts of the marine and
coastal ecosystem to accommodate further
developments.
In this human-dominated ecosystem, other
organisms may have adapted, lived and
thrived among humans, and collectively formed
the biodiversity in the city (Hunter, 2007).
Biodiversity is not merely the number of different
species present in a given ecosystem, such as
a city, but rather the intricate web of biological
dependencies where species, including
humans, depend on others for their survival and
well-being (SCBD, 2000).
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Keywords : Elasmobranchs
Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje
