Rhythmic behavior represents one of the most striking and ubiquitous manifestations of
functional evolution for a wide class of natural and man-made systems. The emergence of …

If habitat destruction or overexploitation of populations is severe, species loss can occur
directly and abruptly. Yet the final descent to extinction is often driven by synergistic …

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

Habitat fragmentation, an important element of current global change, has profound
repercussions on population and species extinction. Landscape fragmentation reduces …

▪ Abstract Spatial synchrony refers to coincident changes in the abundance or other time-
varying characteristics of geographically disjunct populations. This phenomenon has been …

Recently accumulated evidence has documented a climate impact on the demography and
dynamics of single species, yet the impact at the community level is poorly understood …

Extreme climate events are predicted to increase in the future, which will have significant
effects on insect biodiversity. Research into this area has been rapidly expanding, but …

A principal aim of current conservation policy is to reduce the impact of habitat
fragmentation. Conservation corridors may achieve this goal by facilitating movement …

Spatial synchrony, defined as correlated temporal fluctuations among populations, is a
fundamental feature of population dynamics, but many aspects of synchrony remain poorly …

The decline of species in natural habitats concerns ecologists, who view extinction as a
danger and conservation of biological diversity as a goal. In contrast, the proliferation of …