The concept of biological diversity, or biodiversity, is at the core of evolutionary and
ecological studies. Many indices of biodiversity have been developed in the last four …

Organic agriculture, employing manures or composts, has been proposed as a way of
mitigating undesirable impacts of mineral fertilizer use. Of particular interest is the effect of …

Abstract Agri‐Environmental Schemes (AES) have been proposed to mitigate the impact of
agriculture on both taxonomic and functional biodiversity. However, a better knowledge of …

Given the increasing threats to biodiversity and limited resources for conservation, our
knowledge about the uncertainty in surrogates for representing comprehensively the spatial …

Wetlands are the world's most important providers of ecosystem functions and services
(EFS) and the most threatened ecosystems. Systematic conservation planning strategies are …

Wildfires play a determinant role in the composition and structure of animal communities,
especially for groups closely associated with the vegetation and soil, such as bees or ants …

The identification of landscape metrics that could be used as surrogate of biodiversity is still
of broad and current interest in ecology. Several landscape metrics used to provide a …

Climate change is one of the key drivers of the dramatic erosion of global biodiversity.
Poikilothermic organisms, such as amphibians, are particularly prone to alterations in …

Habitat fragmentation is considered one of the most severe threatening factors for global
biodiversity. Here we assessed, how local and landscape scale environmental variables …

Aim Under a global change scenario, research focused on changes in assembly patterns
over spatial and temporal axes is paramount. Despite an increasing need to assess whether …