The pace of deforestation in tropical forests has achieved unprecedented rates, requiring
effective and achievable conservation mitigations that are also easily understood by society …

Context Despite increasing evidence that landscape composition and configuration strongly
influence the community structure of potential pest-regulators, landscape structure has …

Habitat loss is the dominant threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial
environments. In this study, we used an a priori classification of bird species based on their …

Worldwide habitat loss, land‐use changes, and climate change threaten biodiversity, and
we urgently need models that predict the combined impacts of these threats on organisms …

Humans have altered large areas of the Earth surface. By the beginning of the 21st century,
75% of the Earth ice-free land had been modified by humans in some degree (Watson et al …

Remnant habitat patches immersed within biofuel cropland matrices can retain considerable
species diversity, although the effects of land use change on species persistence in …

Biodiversity extinction thresholds are abrupt declines in biological diversity that occur with
habitat loss, associated with a decline in habitat connectivity. Matrix quality should influence …

The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Global biodiversity is increasingly threatened by anthropogenic environmental change.
While there is mounting evidence that habitat loss is a key threat to biodiversity, global …

Less than a quarter of Earth's terrestrial ecosystems remain intact. Protected areas (PA s)
are far exceeded in area by natural habitats that have been transformed for agriculture, and …