Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation

RM Ewers, RK Didham - Biological reviews, 2006 - cambridge.org
Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

Does the type of matrix matter? A quantitative review of the evidence

JA Prevedello, MV Vieira - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2010 - Springer
It has been increasingly recognized that the type of matrix surrounding habitat patches can
affect biodiversity in landscapes, but there were only qualitative reviews of the subject …

Impact of land use changes and habitat fragmentation on the eco-epidemiology of tick-borne diseases

MA Diuk-Wasser, MC VanAcker… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased in recent decades and accounts for the
majority of vector-borne disease cases in temperate areas of Europe, North America, and …

Non‐optimal animal movement in human‐altered landscapes

L Fahrig - Functional ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 I synthesize the understanding of the relationship between landscape structure
and animal movement in human‐modified landscapes. 2 The variety of landscape structures …

Spillover edge effects: the dispersal of agriculturally subsidized insect natural enemies into adjacent natural habitats

TA Rand, JM Tylianakis, T Tscharntke - Ecology letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The cross‐edge spillover of subsidized predators from anthropogenic to natural habitats is
an important process affecting wildlife, especially bird, populations in fragmented …

Not seeing the ocean for the islands: the mediating influence of matrix‐based processes on forest fragmentation effects

JA Kupfer, GP Malanson… - Global ecology and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The pervasive influence of island biogeography theory on forest fragmentation research has
often led to a misleading conceptualization of landscapes as areas of forest/habitat and 'non …

The challenge of maintaining Atlantic forest biodiversity: a multi-taxa conservation assessment of specialist and generalist species in an agro-forestry mosaic in …

R Pardini, D Faria, GM Accacio, RR Laps… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent developments have highlighted the importance of forest amount at large spatial
scales and of matrix quality for ecological processes in remnants. These developments, in …

[图书][B] Fractals and multifractals in ecology and aquatic science

L Seuront - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
Ecologists sometimes have a less-than-rigorous background in quantitative methods, yet
research within this broad field is becoming increasingly mathematical. Written in a step-by …

Ecological mechanisms underlying arthropod species diversity in grasslands

A Joern, AN Laws - Annual review of entomology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Arthropods are an important component of grassland systems, contributing significantly to
biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function. Climate, fire, and grazing by large …

Ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation

RK Didham - Els, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …