Landscape ecology is a discipline that explicitly considers the influence of time and space
on the environmental patterns we observe and the processes that create them. Although …

Exurban development, defined as residential development outside of cities and towns,
occupies nearly five times more land in the United States than urban and suburban …

Abstract Information about land cover and land use is needed for a wide range of
applications such as nature protection and biodiversity, forest and water management …

Geographically-based threat assessments are important for identifying natural resources at
risk, yet have rarely been applied to identify habitat conservation priorities for imperiled …

The widespread conversion of rural land to low‐density residential development poses an
immediate threat to biodiversity and to the provision of ecosystem services. Given that …

This work addresses the impacts of development at the wildland–urban interface on forest
fires that spread to human habitats. Catastrophic fires in the western United States and …

The quantification of urban–rural gradients using urbanization measures has become
standard practice in many urban ecological studies. Nonetheless, the choice of urbanization …

Small protected areas dominate some databases and are common features of landscapes,
yet their accumulated contributions to biodiversity conservation are not well known. Small …

Forest cover is a key attribute of local communities and affects the spatial organization of any
given region. Changes in forest cover are influenced by spatially-varying biophysical and …

Housing development is often intermixed within natural land cover, creating coupled human-
natural systems that benefit some species, while eliminating critical habitat for others. As …