Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

Transportation infrastructure affects the structure of ecosystems, the dynamics of ecosystem
function, and has direct effects on ecosystem components, including their species …

1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite
that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Road verges provide habitats that have considerable potential as a tool for pollinator
conservation, especially given the significant area of land that they collectively cover …

Landscape genetics has emerged as a new research area that integrates population
genetics, landscape ecology and spatial statistics. Researchers in this field can combine the …

As urbanisation is set to continue, understanding the impact on wildlife becomes
increasingly important if we are to be able to conserve biodiversity. As an excellent group of …

Background Bumble bees and other wild bees are important pollinators of wild flowers and
several cultivated crop plants, and have declined in diversity and abundance during the last …

Roads can act as barriers to animal movement through mortality during crossing attempts or
behavioral avoidance. This barrier effect has negative demographic and genetic …

Marginal habitats such as hedgerows or roadsides become especially important for the
conservation of biodiversity in highly modified landscapes. With concerns of a global …