The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic is a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of
pathogen spillover from wildlife to human hosts, particularly in densely populated urban …

Aim Climate and land‐use change, the greatest pressures on biodiversity, can directly
influence each other. One key case is the impact land‐use change has on local climatic …

Forest edges influence more than half of the world's forests and contribute to worldwide
declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, predicting these declines is …

Habitat fragmentation, an important element of current global change, has profound
repercussions on population and species extinction. Landscape fragmentation reduces …

As climate change unfolds, changes in population dynamics and species distribution ranges
are expected to fundamentally reshuffle communities worldwide. Yet, a comprehensive …

Norway spruce forests (Picea abies Karst.) of the Carpathian High Tatra Mountains have
been subject to unprecedented tree mortality caused by attacks of the Eurasian spruce bark …

Human activities often replace native forests with warmer, modified habitats that represent
novel thermal environments for biodiversity. Reducing biodiversity loss hinges upon …

The skin is a barrier between the internal and external environment of an organism.
Depending on the species, it participates in multiple functions. The skin is the organ that …

Many tropical mammals are vulnerable to heat because their water budget limits the use of
evaporative cooling for heat compensation. Further increasing temperatures and aridity …

Forest fragmentation is considered by many to be a primary cause of the current biodiversity
crisis. The underlying mechanisms are poorly known, but a potentially important one is …