▪ Abstract A huge road network with vehicles ramifies across the land, representing a
surprising frontier of ecology. Species-rich roadsides are conduits for few species. Roadkills …

Biodiversity is globally recognised as a cornerstone of healthy ecosystems, and biodiversity
conservation is increasingly becoming one of the important aims of environmental …

The neotropical Atlantic Forest supports one of the highest degrees of species richness and
rates of endemism on the planet, but has also undergone a huge forest loss. However, there …

Rapid urbanization development and construction has seriously threatened the connectivity
of habitat patches in cities and hindered the construction of ecological networks in highly …

In this paper, we propose the ecological network concept as a suitable basis for inserting
biodiversity conservation into sustainable landscape development. For landscapes to be …

The combined method of urban gradient analysis and landscape metrics in analyzing the
changes of landscape pattern has been widely applied since its introduction by Luck and …

Effective conservation planning requires, considering all the complicated biological, social
and economic factors which impinge on the ecological integrity of a site, and then focusing …

An extensive road system with rapidly increasing traffic produces diverse ecological effects
that cover a large land area. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of roads with different …

As humanity's demand for resources continues to rise and productive arable lands become
increasingly scarce, many of Earth's remaining intact regions are at heightened risk of …

A new paradigm of Natural Capital and Sustainable Landscapes has been suggested. It
implies the integration of economic, environmental and social-cultural qualities in a physical …