Knowledge of the ecological and evolutionary causes of dispersal can be crucial in
understanding the behaviour of spatially structured populations, and predicting how species …

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 …

Detailed empirical models predicting both species occurrence and fitness across a
landscape are necessary to understand processes related to population persistence. Failure …

Ecological traps, poor‐quality habitat that nonetheless attract individuals, have been
observed in both natural and human‐altered settings. Until recently, ecological traps were …

Ecological traps arise when animals choose to settle in poor-quality habitats, leading to a
reduction in their survival or productivity. Although this phenomenon has received …

The animal, landscape and man simulation system (ALMaSS) was designed as a predictive
tool for answering policy questions regarding the effect of changing landscape structure or …

Globally accelerating frequency and extent of wildfire threatens the persistence of specialist
wildlife species through direct loss of habitat and indirect facilitation of exotic invasive …

The role of habitat selection behaviour in the assembly of natural communities is an
increasingly important theme in ecology. At the same time, ecologists and conservation …

Habitat-selection theory can be applied to solve numerous problems in the conservation and
management of wildlife. Many of the solutions involve the use of habitat isodars, graphs of …

The increasing intensity of farming of meadows is supposed to be the major cause for strong
declines of many meadow breeding birds. The whinchat, Saxicola rubetra, a Palaearctic …