Biodiversity, Extinction, and Humanity’s Future

The Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Human Population and Resource Use

Bibliographic Data

ID20249137
AuthorsJeffrey V Yule (Louisiana Tech University, corresponding author), Jeffrey Yule, Robert Fournier (0000-0003-2790-2445), Robert J Fournier (0000-0001-9494-2776, Louisiana Tech University), Patrick Hindmarsh, Patrick L Hindmarsh (Louisiana Tech University)
Year2013
Volume2
Issue2
Pages147-159
Publication date2013-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h2020147
OpenAlexW2150778938
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited30

Human actions have altered global environments and reduced biodiversity by causing extinctions and reducing the population sizes of surviving species. Increasing human population size and per capita resource use will continue to have direct and indirect ecological and evolutionary consequences. As a result, future generations will inhabit a planet with significantly less wildlife, reduced evolutionary potential, diminished ecosystem services, and an increased likelihood of contracting infectious disease. The magnitude of these effects will depend on the rate at which global human population and/or per capita resource use decline to sustainable levels and the degree to which population reductions result from increased death rates rather than decreased birth rates

Biodiversity · Biology · Economics · Ecosystem · Geography · Natural resource economics · Per capita · Population · Population growth · Population size · Wildlife · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Demography · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Ecology

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