It has been increasingly recognized that the type of matrix surrounding habitat patches can
affect biodiversity in landscapes, but there were only qualitative reviews of the subject …

Cognition, defined as the processes concerned with the acquisition, retention and use of
information, underlies animals' abilities to navigate their local surroundings, embark on long …

The growing awareness of the adverse effects of habitat fragmentation on natural systems
has resulted in a rapidly increasing number of actions to reduce current fragmentation of …

The ability to make a priori assessments of a species' response to fragmentation, based on
its distribution in the landscape, would serve as a valuable conservation and management …

Dispersal is a key process in ecology, evolutionary and conservation biology. Studies like
mark-release-recapture work, show patterns of movement, but do not provide insight into the …

Background An important issue in conducting kernel home-range analyses is the choice of
bandwidth or smoothing parameter. To examine the effects of this choice, telemetry data …

An ability to predict species' sensitivities to habitat loss and fragmentation has important
conservation implications, and numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain …

The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

In spatial studies of populations, Euclidean distance is commonly used to measure the
structural connectivity between habitat patches. The role of the matrix on patch connectivity …

Spatially-explicit, individual-based models are increasingly used to evaluate the effects of
habitat loss and fragmentation on habitat use and population persistence. Yet, they are …