Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Context Birds, as indicators of biodiversity, are experiencing habitat reduction and loss due
to landscape changes. Evidence is mounting that the response of bird richness to landscape …

Models are useful tools for understanding and predicting ecological patterns and processes.
Under ongoing climate and biodiversity change, they can greatly facilitate decision‐making …

Protected areas (PAs) play a vital role in wildlife conservation. Nonetheless there is concern
and uncertainty regarding how and at what spatial scales anthropogenic stressors influence …

Considering the present ecological crisis, land use-biodiversity relationships have become a
major topic in landscape planning, ecosystem management and ecological restoration. In …

Land-use change, including urbanization, is known to affect wild bee (Hymenoptera:
Apoidea) diversity. However, while previous studies have focused on differences across …

Context There is a long-standing quest in landscape ecology for holistic biodiversity metrics
accounting for multi-taxa diversity in heterogeneous habitat mosaics. Passive acoustic …

The link between dispersal traits and patterns of community assembly remains a frontier in
understanding how vertebrate communities persist in fragmented landscapes. Using …

Tropical dry forests harbor major carbon stocks but are disappearing rapidly across the
globe as agriculture expands into them. Unfortunately, carbon emissions from deforestation …

The development of road networks over the years has caused serious damage to
biodiversity. However, few studies have explored the impact of different road grades on …