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Overview

Michael L. McKinney is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Pollution.

The scientist's work spans several key topics featuring prominently in their publications:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael L. McKinney include:

  • Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Beneficial Health Outcomes of Natural Green Infrastructure in Cities, 2020, Current Landscape Ecology Reports
  • Worldwide effects of non-native species on species-area relationships, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Drone remote sensing in urban forest management: A case study, 2023, Urban forestry & urban greening
  • Spatiotemporal patterns of non-native terrestrial gastropods in the contiguous United States, 2020, NeoBiota

Their frequent co-authors reflect collaboration across diverse topics and institutions. These co-authors include Mia T. Wavrek, Sharon R. Jean-Philippe, Jake A. Carr, Daijiang Li, and Julian D. Olden. Michael L. McKinney has often contributed to research published in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Sustainability, Microplastics, and Conservation Biology, indicating active involvement in interdisciplinary environmental and ecological research environments.

Best Publications

  • Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation

    Michael L. McKINNEY

  • Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction

    Michael L McKinney;Julie L Lockwood

  • Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Extinction Vulnerability and Selectivity: Combining Ecological and Paleontological Views

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Heterochrony: The Evolution of Ontogeny

    Michael L. McKinney;Kenneth J. McNamara

  • Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

    Sue Taylor Parker;Michael L. McKinney

  • Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions

    Michael L. McKinney;Robert M. Schoch

  • Pattern and process of biotic homogenization in the New Pangaea

    Benjamin Baiser;Julian D. Olden;Sydne Record;Julie L. Lockwood

  • High Rates of Extinction and Threat in Poorly Studied Taxa

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Influence of settlement time, human population, park shape and age, visitation and roads on the number of alien plant species in protected areas in the USA

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Measuring floristic homogenization by non‐native plants in North America

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Heterochrony in Evolution

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Forecasting faunal and floral homogenization associated with human population geography in North America

    Julian D. Olden;N. LeRoy Poff;Michael L. McKinney

  • Effects of human population, area, and time on non-native plant and fish diversity in the United States

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Role of human population size in raising bird and mammal threat among nations

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Do Exotics Homogenize or Differentiate Communities? Roles of Sampling and Exotic Species Richness

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Compositional similarity among urban floras within and across continents: biogeographical consequences of human-mediated biotic interchange

    Frank A. La Sorte;Michael L. McKINNEY;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek

  • Do human activities raise species richness? Contrasting patterns in United States plants and fishes

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Ecological causation of heterochrony: a test and implications for evolutionary theory

    Michael L. McKinney

  • Biodiversity dynamics : turnover of populations, taxa, and communities

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Frequent Co-Authors

Julie L. Lockwood
Julie L. Lockwood Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Frank A. La Sorte
Frank A. La Sorte Cornell University
Julian D. Olden
Julian D. Olden University of Washington
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Carlton E. Brett
Carlton E. Brett University of Cincinnati
Marco Pautasso
Marco Pautasso European Food Safety Authority
Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson University of Sheffield
Dave Kendal
Dave Kendal University of Melbourne
Jukka Jokimäki
Jukka Jokimäki University of Lapland

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