▪ Abstract The literature on effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is huge. It is also
very diverse, with different authors measuring fragmentation in different ways and, as a …

Habitat fragmentation threatens the survival of many species and local populations. Habitat
fragmentation has two major consequences: populations become more isolated and are …

Anthropogenic habitat destruction leads to habitat loss and fragmentation, both of which
interact to determine how biodiversity changes at the landscape level. While the detrimental …

Over the past 20 yr much has been learned about a unique symbiotic interaction between
fungal endophytes and grasses. The fungi (Clavicipitaceae, Ascomycota) grow …

Experiments assessing the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning initially aimed at
establishing whether such relationships exist (eg Naeem et al. 1995; Tilman et al. 1996; …

Endophytic fungi are common and diverse in plants. Yet the nature of their interactions with
host plants, and how these interactions cascade upward to communities and ecosystems …

In a large integrated biodiversity project ('The Jena Experiment'in Germany) we established
two experiments, one with a pool of 60 plant species that ranged broadly from dominant to …

When human activities change the landscape, several processes affecting remnant
vegetation take place simultaneously: there is less suitable habitat, populations become …

Microbes encompass tremendous biodiversity, provide support to all living forms, including
humans, and play an important role in many ecosystem services. The rules that govern …

Reduced genetic variation at marker loci in small populations has been well documented,
whereas the relationship between quantitative genetic variation and population size has …