Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological
processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating effects of global …

Many ecological dynamics occur over time-scales that are well beyond the duration of
conventional experiments or observations. One useful approach to overcome this problem is …

Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear
how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary (“safe …

Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global
biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear—a …

Population viability can depend on habitat area, habitat quality, the spatial arrangement of
habitats (aggregations and connections) and the properties of the intervening non‐breeding …

We examined the response of vascular plant species richness to long‐term habitat loss and
fragmentation of Estonian calcareous grasslands (alvars). The current number of habitat …

Summary 1 There is growing concern about declining species diversity in agro‐ecosystems
caused by agricultural intensification at the field and landscape scales. Species diversity of …

Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as
habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global …

Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems (https://www. nhm. ac. uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts …

Spatial environmental heterogeneity (EH) is an important driver of species diversity, and its
influence on species richness has been analysed for numerous taxa, in diverse ecological …