ArticleNature human behaviour2023
Historical redlining is associated with increasing geographical disparities in bird biodiversity sampling in the United States.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of historic neighborhood redlining and contemporary health outcomes.Public health · 2025Pooled it
- Historic residential segregation impacts biodiversity data availability disparately across the tree of life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation.npj biodiversity · 2026Review
- Restoring landscapes and communities: Insights from critical, urban, and plant ecology.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2025Review
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- Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Harmful Algae Forecasting through an Ocean Data Justice Lens.Environmental science & technology · 2025Review
- Historical redlining is associated with disparities in wildlife biodiversity in four California cities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Mapping Environmental Inequalities: Using MapReader to Uncover Mid-Century Industrial Burdens.Imago mundi · 2024Article
- Urban inequalities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
Historic segregation and inequality are critical to understanding modern environmental conditions. Race-based zoning policies, such as redlining in the United States during the 1930s, are associated with racial inequity and adverse multigenerational socioeconomic levels in income and education, and disparate environmental characteristics including tree canopy cover across urban neighbourhoods. Here we quantify the association between redlining and bird biodiversity sampling density and completeness-two critical metrics of biodiversity knowledge-across 195 cities in the United States. We show that historically redlined neighbourhoods remain the most undersampled urban areas for bird biodiversity today, potentially impacting conservation priorities and propagating urban environmental inequities. The disparity in sampling across redlined neighbourhood grades increased by 35.6% over the past 20 years. We identify specific urban areas in need of increased bird biodiversity sampling and discuss possible strategies for reducing uncertainty and increasing equity of sampling of biodiversity in urban areas. Our findings highlight how human behaviour and past social, economic and political conditions not just segregate our built environment but may also leave a lasting mark on the digital information we have about urban biodiversity.
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