Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations
respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of …

Land-use changes have severely degraded natural landscapes around the world,
constituting the primary driver of biodiversity loss. In recent decades, agriculture expansion …

The world's terrestrial biomes are broadly classified according to the dominant plant growth
forms that define ecosystem structure and processes. Although the abundance and …

The UN declaration of the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 emphasizes the
need for effective measures to restore ecosystems and safeguard biodiversity. Large …

There is a need to revise the framework used to project species risks under climate change
(CC) and land‐use/cover change (LUCC) scenarios. We built a CC risk index using the …

How species persist in fragmented habitats is essential to understanding species resilience
in response to increasing anthropogenic pressures. It has been suggested that expansion in …

Mammals are charismatic organisms that play a fundamental role in ecological functions
and ecosystem services, such as pollination, seed dispersal, nutrient cycling, and pest …

Seed dispersal is an ecosystem service strongly affected by the loss of mutualist dispersers,
with economic consequences in terms of carbon sequestration and climate change …

Large terrestrial herbivorous mammals (LTH‐mammals) influence plant community structure
by affecting seedling establishment in mature tropical forests. Many of these LTH‐mammals …

Natural enemies play an important role in controlling plant population growth and vegetation
dynamics. Tropical rainforests host the greatest diversity of herbivores, from large …