Plant biodiversity change across scales during the Anthropocene

M Vellend, L Baeten, A Becker-Scarpitta… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Plant communities have undergone dramatic changes in recent centuries, although not all
such changes fit with the dominant biodiversity-crisis narrative used to describe them. At the …

Plant functional connectivity–integrating landscape structure and effective dispersal

AG Auffret, Y Rico, JM Bullock… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal is essential for species to survive the threats of habitat destruction and climate
change. Combining descriptions of dispersal ability with those of landscape structure, the …

Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

H Hillebrand, B Blasius, ET Borer… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Global concern about human impact on biological diversity has triggered an intense
research agenda on drivers and consequences of biodiversity change in parallel with …

Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species

Y Yan, S Jarvie, Q Liu, Q Zhang - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Evaluating the impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation is essential for biodiversity
conservation. However, an understanding of how habitat loss and fragmentation interact and …

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

NM Haddad, LA Brudvig, J Clobert, KF Davies… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
We conducted an analysis of global forest cover to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is
within 1 km of the forest's edge, subject to the degrading effects of fragmentation. A synthesis …

Pollination and seed dispersal are the most threatened processes of plant regeneration

EL Neuschulz, T Mueller, M Schleuning… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Plant regeneration is essential for maintaining forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning,
which are globally threatened by human disturbance. Here we present the first integrative …

The effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on plant functional traits and functional diversity: what do we know so far?

J Zambrano, CX Garzon-Lopez, L Yeager, C Fortunel… - Oecologia, 2019 - Springer
Habitat loss and fragmentation result in significant landscape changes that ultimately affect
plant diversity and add uncertainty to how natural areas will respond to future global change …

Delimitation of ecological corridors between conservation units in the Brazilian Cerrado using a GIS and AHP approach

DT Morandi, LC de Jesus França, ES Menezes… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is a biodiversity hotspot of global importance; however, it is
fragmented. The objective of this study is to identify suitable areas for ecological corridors …

Global impacts of edge effects on species richness

JNG Willmer, T Puettker, JA Prevedello - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Almost all world's forest areas are predicted to be near edges by 2100, making the detection
and prediction of biodiversity responses to edges an urgent need. Yet, idiosyncratic …

Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area

P Ren, RK Didham, MV Murphy, D Zeng, X Si… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Edge effects often exacerbate the negative effects of habitat loss on biodiversity. In forested
ecosystems, however, many pollinators actually prefer open sunny conditions created by …