Land‐sharing/‐sparing connectivity landscapes for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation

I Grass, J Loos, S Baensch, P Batáry… - People and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The land‐sharing versus land‐sparing debate recently stagnated, lacking an integrating
perspective in agricultural landscapes as well as consideration of ecosystem services. Here …

Conservation status of American pikas (Ochotona princeps)

AT Smith - Journal of Mammalogy, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The American pika (Ochotona princeps) is commonly perceived as a species that is
at high risk of extinction due to climate change. The purpose of this review is two-fold: to …

Extinction of biotic interactions due to habitat loss could accelerate the current biodiversity crisis

ME Sandor, CS Elphick, MW Tingley - Ecological Applications, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat loss disrupts species interactions through local extinctions, potentially orphaning
species that depend on interacting partners, via mutualisms or commensalisms, and …

Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation

R Jones, RJ Wilson, NAD Bourn, IMD Maclean - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Context Efforts to adapt conservation to climate change often focus on facilitating range
shifts to higher latitudes, by enhancing landscape capacity for poleward expansion. The …

Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data

JWE Jeglinski, S Wanless, S Murray… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Density‐dependent feedback is recognized as important regulatory mechanisms of
population size. Considering the spatial scales over which such feedback operates has …

Perturbation drives changing metapopulation dynamics in a top marine predator

EL Carroll, A Hall, MT Olsen… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Metapopulation theory assumes a balance between local decays/extinctions and local
growth/new colonisations. Here we investigate whether recent population declines across …

Spatially explicit models predict coffee rust spread in fragmented landscapes

EM Beasley, N Aristizábal, EM Bueno, ER White - Landscape Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Context Landscape structure influences the spread of plant pathogens, including coffee leaf
rust, a fungal disease affecting the coffee industry. Rust transmission is likely affected by …

Dynamic spatio-temporal patterns of metapopulation occupancy in patchy habitats

LE Bertassello, E Bertuzzo, G Botter… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spatio-temporal dynamics in habitat suitability and connectivity among mosaics of
heterogeneous wetlands are critical for biological diversity and species persistence in …

Fifty-year population trajectory in a marginal American Pika (Ochotona princeps) population

AT Smith, CI Millar, ER White - Journal of Mammalogy, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The American Pika (Ochotona princeps) has been considered a species at risk due
to warming temperatures associated with climate change. Many life-history attributes of …

Return of the pika: American pikas re‐occupy long‐extirpated, warm locations

CI Millar, AT Smith - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
American pikas (Ochotona princeps), small mammals related to rabbits, occur in
mountainous regions of western North America, where they live in shattered‐rock habitats …