Impacts of landscape patterns on plant species diversity at a global scale

H Jin, J Xu, Y Peng, J Xin, N Peng, Y Li, J Huang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Landscape patterns are important drivers of biodiversity. Owing to differences in vegetation
types, sampling methods, diversity measures, spatial scales, and landscape levels, the …

Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes

C Bello, TW Crowther, DL Ramos… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Forest restoration is fundamental to overcoming biodiversity crises and climate change. In
tropical forests, animals can improve forest recovery as they disperse> 70% of tree species …

[HTML][HTML] Relocating built-up land for biodiversity conservation in an uncertain future

W Yue, Q Zhou, M Li, J van Vliet - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Land use changes associated with habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation exert
profoundly detrimental impacts on biodiversity conservation. Urban development is one of …

Assessing spatio-temporal variation and associated factors of forest fragmentation from morphological spatial pattern analysis and geo-detector analyses: a case …

Y Zhang, X Li, M Li - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the context of economic boom and climate change, monitoring the spatio-temporal
dynamics of forest fragmentation induced by disturbances and understanding its …

Human impacts, habitat quantity and quality affect the dimensions of diversity and carbon stocks in subtropical forests: a landscape-based approach

JR Bastos, ES Capellesso, AC Vibrans… - Journal for Nature …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fragmentation is recognized as one of the main factors affecting species and functionality
losses in tropical landscapes. In this study, we assess how landscape quality and quantity …

Time-lag effects of habitat loss, but not fragmentation, on deadwood-dwelling lichens

A Hämäläinen, L Fahrig - Landscape Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Context Landscape habitat amount is known to increase biodiversity, while the effects of
habitat fragmentation are still debated. It has been suggested that negative fragmentation …

[HTML][HTML] Network resilience of plant-bee interactions in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot

FF Dzekashu, AA Yusuf, K Takemoto, MK Peters… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Interaction network resilience can be defined as the ability of interacting organisms to
maintain their functions, processes or populations after experiencing a disturbance. Studies …

Bioclimatic predictors of forest structure, composition and phenology in the Paraguayan Dry Chaco

S Ruiz-Díaz, LFP de Molas, E Benítez-León… - Journal of Tropical …, 2024 - cambridge.org
One of the largest remnants of tropical dry forest is the South American Gran Chaco. A
quarter of this biome is in Paraguay, but there have been few studies in the Paraguayan …

Microclimate and dry years interfere with landscape structure effects on intraspecific trait variation

SO Jacome, B Deák, O Valkó, V Szász, KV Neumann… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Objectives Using a spatially and temporally replicated demographic dataset, we tested the
relative effect of landscape structure (area and connectivity of remnant habitat fragments) …

[PDF][PDF] Species Diversity and Phytosociological Study of Herbaceous Layer of Rangeland Ecosystem

M Saleem, F Hussain, MA Bashir, R Aljami… - Polish Journal of … - pjoes.com
The present study was proposed to work on species diversity and phytosociological study of
the herbaceous layer at eight different sites in the surrounding area of Dera Ghazi Khan …