Here, we outline a conceptual framework for biodiversity dynamics following environmental
change. The model incorporates lags in extinction and immigration, which lead to extinction …

There is a widespread belief that we are experiencing a mass extinction event similar in
severity to previous mass extinction events in the last 600 million years where up to 95% of …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 597–605 Abstract Intensification or abandonment of agricultural
land use has led to a severe decline of semi‐natural habitats across Europe. This can cause …

Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between
agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely …

Mesoamerica provides a unique context for biodiversity conservation in managed
landscapes because of its geography, history of human intervention, and present …

Palm oil is the world's most important vegetable oil in terms of production quantity.
Indonesia, the world's largest palm-oil producer, plans to double its production by 2020, with …

Habitat fragmentation is the process by which habitat loss results in the division of large,
continuous habitats into smaller, more isolated remnants. Thousands of scientific studies …

Rapid expansion of energy development in some portions of the Intermountain West, USA,
has prompted concern regarding impacts to declining greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus …

Application of island biogeography theory to prediction of species extinctions resulting from
habitat loss is based on the assumption that the transformed landscape matrix is completely …

To provide sustainable income from forestlands, large areas in the tropics are planted with
“agricultural” trees, such as oil palm and rubber, and “industrial” trees, such as Acacia …