Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change
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Aim Elucidating patterns in species responses to habitat fragmentation is an important focus
of ecology and conservation, but studies are often geographically restricted, taxonomically …

Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 677–689 Abstract Although some organisms have moved to
higher elevations and latitudes in response to recent climate change, there is little …

What biological attributes predispose species to the risk of extinction? There are many
hypotheses but so far there has been no systematic analysis for discriminating between …

Ecological specialization is one of the main concepts in ecology and conservation. However,
this concept has become highly context‐dependent and is now obscured by the great …

Many species are projected to become vulnerable to twenty-first-century climate changes,,
with consequent effects on the tree of life. If losses were not randomly distributed across the …

The term 'biodiversity'is a simple contraction of 'biological diversity', and at first sight the
concept is simple too: biodiversity is the sum total of all biotic variation from the level of …

Many large animal species have a high risk of extinction. This is usually thought to result
simply from the way that species traits associated with vulnerability, such as low …

Since 1900, 123 freshwater animal species have been recorded as extinct in North America.
Hundreds of additional species of fishes, mollusks, crayfishes, and amphibians are …