Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

1. Population declines among insects are inadequately quantified, yet of vital importance to
national and global biodiversity assessments and have significant implications for …

Metapopulation is the ecological term for assemblages of plant and animal species within
larger areas of space, with long-term survival of the species depending on a shifting balance …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 969–979 Abstract There is a lack of quantitative syntheses of
fragmentation effects across species and biogeographic regions, especially with respect to …

Dispersal ability of a species is a key ecological characteristic, affecting a range of
processes from adaptation, community dynamics and genetic structure, to distribution and …

1. The loss of semi-natural grasslands in agro-ecosystems has increased the importance of
adequate management of remaining grasslands. Recommendations for intensive grazing …

Two patterns in the distribution of species have become firmly but independently established
in ecology: the species-area curve, which describes how rapidly the number of species …

Moths are frequently used as indicators of biodiversity or habitat quality. Light traps are the
most effective and widely used method for gathering data on moth communities. Knowing …

How best to manage forest patches, mitigate the consequences of forest fragmentation, and
enable landscape permeability are key questions facing conservation scientists and …

Light traps are used to make inferences about local macro‐moth communities, but very little
is known about the efficiency with which they attract moths from varying distances, and how …