The fragmentation of forests is a dominant human impact worldwide with major implications
for the conservation and management of ecosystems. Although many studies have …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than two-thirds …

Aim Detailed knowledge of species distributions, endemism patterns and threats is critical to
site prioritization and conservation planning. However, data from biodiversity inventories are …

Local, regional, and global extinctions caused by habitat loss, degradation, and
fragmentation have been widely reported for the tropics. The patterns and drivers of this loss …

Caves are considered buffered environments in terms of their ability to sustain near-constant
microclimatic conditions. However, cave entrance environments are expected to respond …

The future of forest biodiversity is increasingly dependent on the ability of species to persist
in isolated forest remnants embedded within a mosaic of human land uses. We review the …

The factors which govern species‟ distribution and abundance are myriad, and together
constitute the ecological niche of a given species. Because abiotic factors are arguably the …

Fire suppression and climate change are leading to habitat fragmentation in temperate
montane meadows across the globe, raising concerns about biodiversity loss. Restoration …

The species-area relationship is one of the most important topic in the study of species
diversity, conservation biology and landscape ecology. The species-area relationship …

Executive summary Biodiversity is threatened globally by a range of anthropogenic impacts
on the extent, connectedness and intactness of habitats required for species persistence …