The rapid disruption of tropical forests probably imperils global biodiversity more than any
other contemporary phenomenon,,. With deforestation advancing quickly, protected areas …

This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of
protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the …

Predicting when future species extinctions will occur is necessary for directing conservation
investments but has proved difficult. We developed a new method for predicting extinctions …

Tropical deforestation continues to cause population declines and local extinctions in
centers of avian diversity and endemism. Although local species extinctions stem from …

In Argentina, the rapid expansion and intensification of row crop production that has
occurred during the last 20 years has resulted in the loss of habitat and spatial heterogeneity …

The rapid disruption of tropical forests probably imperils global biodiversity more than any
other contemporary phenomenon1–3. With deforestation advancing quickly, protected areas …

Nestedness is a pattern frequently reported for faunal assemblages in fragmented systems.
Although nestedness has been documented for a wide range of taxa, it is rarely tested in …

US National Park Service land managers face a variety of challenges to preserving the
biodiversity in their parks. A principle challenge is to minimize the impacts of surrounding …

Macroecological patterns such as the species–area relationship (SAR), the species‐
abundance distribution (SAD), and the species–time relationship (STR) exhibit regular …

Landscape genetic studies offer a fine-scale understanding of how habitat heterogeneity
influences population genetic structure. We examined population genetic structure and …