Landscape approaches have become en vogue in the past couple of decades. Originating
from nineteenth-century landscape geography, this renewed popularity since the 1980s is …

Climate change and habitat fragmentation are considered key pressures on biodiversity. In
this paper we explore the potential synergetic effects between these factors. We argue that …

Landscape ecological science has produced knowledge about the relationship between
landscape pattern and landscape processes, but it has been less effective in transferring this …

Identifying climate refugia is key to effective biodiversity conservation under a changing
climate, especially for mountain‐specialist species adapted to cold conditions and highly …

Summary 1 Although many reintroduction schemes for the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx in
Germany have been discussed, the implications of connectivity between suitable patches …

Conservation biologists often must make management decisions based on little empirical
information. In Germany, biologists are concerned that the recovery and reintroduction of …

Given the importance placed on protected areas, determining their effectiveness in
representing and maintaining biodiversity is a core issue in conservation biology …

In spatial studies of populations, Euclidean distance is commonly used to measure the
structural connectivity between habitat patches. The role of the matrix on patch connectivity …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are often concurrent to land conversion and urbanization.
Simple application of GIS-based landscape pattern indicators may be not sufficient to …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity. Environmental impact
assessment and strategic environmental assessment are essential instruments used in …