Forgotten Grasslands of the South is a literary and scientific case study of some of the
biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. Eminent ecologist …

Fire, microhabitat, and their interactions affect Florida scrub ecosystems and their plant
species. Concepts of vegetation change in the Florida upland landscape have followed …

Conservation biologists have identified threats to the survival of about a quarter of the
mammalian species; to identify patterns of rarity and commonness of mammals, we studied …

Understanding how patchy landscapes affect the distribution and abundance of species is a
central issue in applied ecology. We examined the effects of landscape structure on the …

Urbanization is a major contributor to habitat loss and fragmentation and is considered a
global threat to biodiversity. We studied reptile and amphibian species diversity and …

Structures of habitat fragments interact with autecologies of resident species to produce
patterns in taxonomic richness. Understanding this interaction is crucial to habitat …

We use population viability analysis of an endangered Florida scrub mint, Dicerandra
frutescens, to specify the optimal fire return intervals for its long-term persistence and for its …

Effectively summarizing complex community relationships is an important feature in studies
such as biodiversity, global change, and invasion ecology. The reliability of such community …

Positive interspecific and intraspecific relationships between local abundance and regional
occupancy have been widely documented. The former are essentially pervasive. These …

Abstract The Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi, is endemic to scrub habitat patches
along the central portion of the Florida peninsula and xeric coastal regions. Scrub …