Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature

CW Davison, C Rahbek… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity: attribution problems, risks, and opportunities

TH Oliver, MD Morecroft - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Global change drivers are known to interact in their effects on biodiversity, but much
research to date ignores this complexity. As a consequence, there are problems in the …

Interactive effects of climate and land use on pollinator diversity differ among taxa and scales

C Ganuza, S Redlich, J Uhler, C Tobisch… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Changes in climate and land use are major threats to pollinating insects, an essential
functional group. Here, we unravel the largely unknown interactive effects of both threats on …

Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

CS Mantyka‐pringle, TG Martin… - Global Change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and habitat loss are both key threatening processes driving the global loss
in biodiversity. Yet little is known about their synergistic effects on biological populations due …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

MG Turner - 2001 - lepicolea.wordpress.com
They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

Niches, models, and climate change: assessing the assumptions and uncertainties

JA Wiens, D Stralberg, D Jongsomjit… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
As the rate and magnitude of climate change accelerate, understanding the consequences
becomes increasingly important. Species distribution models (SDMs) based on current …

Use of resistance surfaces for landscape genetic studies: considerations for parameterization and analysis

SF Spear, N Balkenhol, MJ FORTIN… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Measures of genetic structure among individuals or populations collected at different spatial
locations across a landscape are commonly used as surrogate measures of functional (ie …

New paradigms for supporting the resilience of marine ecosystems

TP Hughes, DR Bellwood, C Folke, RS Steneck… - Trends in ecology & …, 2005 - cell.com
Resource managers and scientists from disparate disciplines are rising to the challenge of
understanding and moderating human impacts on marine ecosystems. Traditional barriers …

Utility and limitations of species richness metrics for conservation planning

E Fleishman, RF Noss, BR Noon - Ecological indicators, 2006 - Elsevier
The appropriateness of species richness as an ecological indicator or decision variable for
setting conservation and management priorities depends on many assumptions. Most …

Does conservation planning matter in a dynamic and uncertain world?

E Meir, S Andelman, HP Possingham - Ecology Letters, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Loss of biodiversity is one of the world's overriding environmental challenges. Reducing
those losses by creating reserve networks is a cornerstone of global conservation and …