Conservation assessment is a rapidly evolving discipline whose stated goal is the design of
networks of protected areas that represent and ensure the persistence of nature (ie, species …

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

This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to
all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

Key to understanding the implications of climate and land use change on biodiversity and
natural resources is to incorporate the physiographic platform on which changes in …

Landscape ecology is in a position to become the scientific basis for sustainable landscape
development. When spatial planning policy is decentralised, local actors need to collaborate …

Land-use change models are used by researchers and professionals to explore the
dynamics and drivers of land-use/land-cover change and to inform policies affecting such …

This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes
and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and build …

Landscape ecological science has produced knowledge about the relationship between
landscape pattern and landscape processes, but it has been less effective in transferring this …

Animals regularly return to locations such as foraging patches, nests, dens, watering holes,
or movement corridors, and these revisited locations are often sites of ecological …