Key lessons for achieving biodiversity‐sensitive cities and towns

K Ikin, DS Le Roux, L Rayner… - Ecological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Australia's urban landscapes offer opportunities to marry socio‐economic and biodiversity
conservation objectives. Yet, information is needed on what urban landscape and habitat …

Closing persistent gaps in knowledge about edge ecology

L Ries, SM Murphy, GM Wimp, RJ Fletcher - Current Landscape Ecology …, 2017 - Springer
Edge effects are one of the most extensively studied ecological phenomena of the past 100
years. Despite the still-common perception that edge effects are overly complex and …

Human bycatch: Conservation surveillance and the social implications of camera traps

C Sandbrook, R Luque-Lora… - Conservation and …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Camera traps are widely used in conservation research and practice. They can capture
images of people ('human bycatch'), but little is known about how often this happens, or the …

Conservation conundrums and the challenges of managing unexplained declines of multiple species

DB Lindenmayer, J Wood, C MacGregor, C Foster… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
The conventional approach to conserving threatened biota is to identify drivers of decline,
instigate actions to mitigate threatening processes, and monitor interventions to test their …

Factors affecting the occupancy of forest mammals in an urban-forest mosaic in EThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa

MM Zungu, MST Maseko, R Kalle, T Ramesh… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
Urbanisation is one of the most rapidly expanding forms of landscape modification by
humans and leads to large-scale loss and fragmentation of native habitat. This can alter the …

Natural and anthropogenic processes influence the occurrence of vertebrate fauna in coastal dunes

A Chadwick, MA Weston, T Burns, G Randall… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coastal dunes represent habitat for wildlife yet are chronically understudied and are
threatened by anthropogenically driven processes from their landward and seaward …

Edge effects in fire‐prone landscapes: Ecological importance and implications for fauna

K Parkins, A York, J Di Stefano - Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Edges are ecologically important environmental features and have been well researched in
agricultural and urban landscapes. However, little work has been conducted in flammable …

[HTML][HTML] No consistent diversity patterns in terrestrial mammal assemblages along rural-urban forest gradients

T Magura, E Kiss, GL Lövei - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2021 - Elsevier
Urbanization is increasing worldwide, fragmenting, isolating or destroying native habitats
with a subsequent loss of biodiversity, structural and compositional changes of biotic …

Compact development minimizes the impacts of urban growth on native mammals

NR Villaseñor, AIT Tulloch, DA Driscoll… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Unprecedented global human population growth and rapid urbanization of rural and natural
lands highlight the urgent need to integrate biodiversity conservation into planning for urban …

Joint effects of patch edges and habitat degradation on faunal predation risk in a widespread marine foundation species

KA Hovel, JE Duffy, JJ Stachowicz, P Reynolds… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities degrade and fragment coastal marine habitats, reducing their structural
complexity and making habitat edges a prevalent seascape feature. Though habitat edges …