Ants play a central role in understanding the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on
communities and ecosystems because of their diversity, abundance, and functional roles in …

Tropical forests continue to be felled and fragmented around the world. A key question is
how rapidly species disappear from forest fragments and how quickly humans must restore …

Microbes, similar to plants and animals, exhibit biogeographic patterns. However, in contrast
with the considerable knowledge on the island biogeography of higher organisms, we know …

Edge effects often exacerbate the negative effects of habitat loss on biodiversity. In forested
ecosystems, however, many pollinators actually prefer open sunny conditions created by …

Understanding the response of biodiversity to land-use changes is an important challenge
for ecologists. We assessed the effects of five landscape metrics (forest cover, number of …

Aim We examined whether the community compositions of birds, lizards and small mammals
were nested in a fragmented landscape in the Thousand Island Lake, China. We also …

Beta diversity describes changes in species composition among sites in a region and has
particular relevance for explaining ecological patterns in fragmented habitats. However, it is …

Forest ecosystems have been subjected to continuous dynamics between deforestation and
forestation. Assessing the effects of these processes on biodiversity could be essential for …

Biodiversity change in anthropogenically transformed habitats is often nonrandom, yet the
nature and importance of the different mechanisms shaping community structure are …

To better understand responses of reptiles and amphibians to forest fragmentation in the
lowland Neotropics, we examined community and population structure of frogs and lizards in …