Connectivity and fragmentation

Protecting temperate old-growth forests as biotic microrefugia amid climate change
In times of climate change and biosphere degradation, leveraging the potential of forests to support carbon storage and biodiversity is …
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Home-garden connectivity rather than tree-cover connectivity facilitates biodiversity in fragmented tropical forest landscapes

Context Forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a global strategy to address forest fragmentation and degradation, yet, its …

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Only one-third of protected areas in the Chaco effectively curb woodland loss, but their impact extends beyond their boundaries
Forests in the tropics and subtropics harbor most of the world’s biodiversity and provide essential services but are under high …
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Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture-savanna mosaics of western India
Avian biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is declining globally. In Europe and America, agricultural homogenization and the decline …
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Hunting and habitat destruction drive widespread functional declines of top predators in a global deforestation hotspot

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We investigated the effects of habitat destruction and hunting on the functional decline of top predators, specifically jaguar and …

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Recent Sociocultural Changes Reverse the Long-Term Trend of Declining Habitat Availability for Large Wild Mammals in Europe

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People have strongly influenced the biosphere for millennia, but how their increasing activities have shaped wildlife distribution …

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Risk response towards roads is consistent across multiple species in a temperate forest ecosystem
Roads can have diverse impacts on wildlife species, and while some species may adapt effectively, others may not. Studying multiple …
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The impacts of reduced connectivity on multiple facets of aquatic insect diversity in floodplain wetlands, Northeast China
River-floodplain ecosystems are highly complex and dynamic systems that are subjected to human disturbance, such as the construction of …
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Increasing mortality of European bison (Bison bonasus) on roads and railways
Traffic mortality can pose a serious risk to endangered species that occur in small populations, are mobile and occupy fragmented …
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Understanding habitat selection of range-expanding populations of large carnivores: 20 years of grey wolves (Canis lupus) recolonizing Germany

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The non-stationarity in habitat selection of expanding populations poses a significant challenge for spatial forecasting. Focusing …

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