Claim · model-written summary
Human population had a significant inverse relationship with native species diversity.
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e0“The combined vascular flora for the ten parks contains 147 families, 599 genera and 1391 species, 490 of which are non-native”
e6“a significant inverse linear relationship was found between human population and native species diversity”
Title
Robert E. Loeb The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 2006. doi:10.3159/1095-5674(2006)133[601:acfolu]2.0.co;2
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation The combined vascular flora of the ten parks contains 1391 species, of which 490 are non-native.
- Observation A common urban park flora does not exist; fewer than 1% of species were present in all ten parks.
- Association Floristic similarity of the parks was higher with geographic proximity, for both native and non-native species.
- Association Parks in Bronx County had greater similarity to parks in Baltimore and Washington than the three parks in Kings and Queens Counties.
- Association Human population had a significant direct relationship with non-native species diversity.