Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

D Tilman, F Isbell, JM Cowles - Annual review of ecology …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Species diversity is a major determinant of ecosystem productivity, stability, invasibility, and
nutrient dynamics. Hundreds of studies spanning terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems …

Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

M Kuussaari, R Bommarco, RK Heikkinen… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Local extinction of species can occur with a substantial delay following habitat loss or
degradation. Accumulating evidence suggests that such extinction debts pose a significant …

Habitat amount modulates biodiversity responses to fragmentation

H Zhang, JM Chase, J Liao - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic habitat destruction leads to habitat loss and fragmentation, both of which
interact to determine how biodiversity changes at the landscape level. While the detrimental …

[图书][B] The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (MPB-32)

SP Hubbell - 2011 - degruyter.com
Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly
understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general …

[图书][B] Metapopulation ecology

I Hanski - 1999 - books.google.com
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 …

Predictors of species sensitivity to fragmentation

K Henle, KF Davies, M Kleyer, C Margules… - Biodiversity & …, 2004 - Springer
We reviewed empirical data and hypotheses derived from demographic, optimal foraging,
life-history, community, and biogeographic theory for predicting the sensitivity of species to …

Connectivity measures: a review

P Kindlmann, F Burel - Landscape ecology, 2008 - Springer
One of the central problems in contemporary ecology and conservation biology is the drastic
change of landscapes induced by anthropogenic activities, resulting in habitat loss and …

Rectangular and hexagonal grids used for observation, experiment and simulation in ecology

CPD Birch, SP Oom, JA Beecham - Ecological modelling, 2007 - Elsevier
Regular grids or lattices are frequently used to study ecosystems, for observations,
experiments and simulations. The regular rectangular or square grid is used more often than …

Boom‐bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept

DL Strayer, CM D'Antonio, F Essl, MS Fowler… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Boom‐bust dynamics–the rise of a population to outbreak levels, followed by a dramatic
decline–have been associated with biological invasions and offered as a reason not to …

Primate conservation biology

G Cowlishaw, R Dunbar - 2021 - books.google.com
From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest
nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that …