Forest fragmentation in China and its effect on biodiversity

J Liu, DA Coomes, L Gibson, G Hu, J Liu… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is fragmenting natural ecosystems, with major consequences for
biodiversity. This paper reviews fragmentation trends–historical and current–in China, the …

Stay or go–how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

BJ Graae, V Vandvik, WS Armbruster… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the face of climate change, populations have two survival options− they can remain in situ
and tolerate the new climatic conditions (“stay”), or they can move to track their climatic …

Toward reliable habitat suitability and accessibility models in an era of multiple environmental stressors

H De Kort, M Baguette, J Lenoir… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Global biodiversity declines, largely driven by climate and land‐use changes, urge the
development of transparent guidelines for effective conservation strategies. Species …

Climate change and habitat fragmentation drive the occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, at the northeastern limit of its distribution

JA Simon, RR Marrotte, N Desrosiers… - Evolutionary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lyme borreliosis is rapidly emerging in Canada, and climate change is likely a key driver of
the northern spread of the disease in North America. We used field and modeling …

Future of endemic flora of biodiversity hotspots in India

VS Chitale, MD Behera, PS Roy - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
India is one of the 12 mega biodiversity countries of the world, which represents 11% of
world's flora in about 2.4% of global land mass. Approximately 28% of the total Indian flora …

Poleward Expansion of the White-Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) under Climate Change: Implications for the Spread of Lyme Disease

E Roy-Dufresne, T Logan, JA Simon, GL Chmura… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is an important reservoir host for Borrelia
burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme disease, and its distribution is expanding …

At the landscape level, birds respond strongly to habitat amount but weakly to fragmentation

RX De Camargo, V Boucher‐Lalonde… - Diversity and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim It is usually thought that habitat fragmentation acts negatively on species survival, and
consequently, on biodiversity. Recent literature challenges whether habitat fragmentation …

Human and biophysical drivers of fires in Semiarid Chaco mountains of Central Argentina

JP Argañaraz, GG Pizarro, M Zak, MA Landi… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fires are a recurrent disturbance in Semiarid Chaco mountains of central Argentina. The
interaction of multiple factors generates variable patterns of fire occurrence in space and …

Multipurpose habitat networks for short‐range and long‐range connectivity: a new method combining graph and circuit connectivity

B Rayfield, D Pelletier, M Dumitru… - Methods in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity conservation in landscapes undergoing climate and land‐use changes requires
designing multipurpose habitat networks that connect the movements of organisms at …

On the use of global DEMs in ecological modelling and the accuracy of new bare-earth DEMs

V Moudrý, V Lecours, K Gdulová, L Gábor, L Moudrá… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
It is now widely acknowledged that the increasing availability of remotely sensed data
facilitates ecological modelling. Digital elevation models (DEMs) are arguably one of the …