Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation are key drivers of global species loss.
Their effects may be understood by focusing on:(1) individual species and the processes …

Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

The fragmentation of forests is a dominant human impact worldwide with major implications
for the conservation and management of ecosystems. Although many studies have …

With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few
decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring …

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

An ever-increasing proportion of the global forested landscape is in close proximity to edges
and edge effects have been shown to represent key forces affecting both organisms and …

Insects are important because of their diversity, ecological role, and influence on agriculture,
human health, and natural resources. This chapter documents the dominance of insects in …

Although predation is generally seen as one of the key factors determining the abundance
and composition of insect herbivore communities in tropical rain forests, quantitative …

Not all species are likely to be equally affected by habitat fragmentation; thus, we evaluated
the effects of size of forest remnants on trophically linked communities of plants, leaf‐mining …

Spatial ecology includes research into factors responsible for observed distribution patterns
of organisms. Moreover, the spatial distribution of an animal at a given spatial scale and in a …