Consequences of impediments to animal movements at different scales: a conceptual framework and review

AJ Cosgrove, TJ McWhorter… - Diversity and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The persistence of animal populations depends on individuals moving successfully
around a landscape, but habitat fragmentation can hinder this by reducing functional …

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation effects on small mammals: Analysis with conditional inference tree statistical modelling

CP Johnstone, A Lill, RD Reina - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation often co-occur in a landscape
and their relative influence on a native animals' health and survival can be difficult to …

Contrasting responses of small mammals to fire and topographic refugia

M Swan, C Galindez‐Silva, F Christie, A York… - Austral …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Unburnt patches within burnt landscapes are expected to provide an important resource for
fauna, potentially acting as a refuge from direct effects of fire and allowing animals to persist …

Life history influences how fire affects genetic diversity in two lizard species

AL Smith, CM Bull, MG Gardner… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 'Fire mosaics' are often maintained in landscapes to promote successional diversity
in vegetation with little understanding of how this will affect ecological processes in animal …

Population recovery of alien black rats Rattus rattus: A test of reinvasion theory

N Hansen, NK Hughes, AE Byrom, PB Banks - Austral Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reinvasion of pest animals after incomplete control is a major challenge for invasive species
management, yet little is known about the behavioural and demographic categories of …

Setting spatial conservation priorities despite incomplete data for characterizing metapopulations

AH Fullerton, S Anzalone, P Moran… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Management of spatially structured species poses unique challenges. Despite a strong
theoretical foundation, practitioners rarely have sufficient empirical data to evaluate how …

High termite richness in an urban fragment of Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil

MV Ernesto, EF Ramos, FMS Moura… - Biota …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
Termites are very abundant in tropical ecosystems and have active roles in nutrient cycling
and soil formation, but few studies of their assemblages have been undertaken in the …

Habitat fragmentation in forests affects relatedness and spatial genetic structure of a native rodent, Rattus lutreolus

HC Stephens, C Schmuki, CP Burridge… - Austral …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat fragmentation can have a range of negative demographic and genetic impacts on
disturbed populations. Dispersal barriers can be created, reducing gene flow and increasing …

Impermeable landscape barrier does not affect the dispersion of small mammals after long-distance movement on a scale of hundreds of metres

O Tolkachev - Mammalian Biology, 2023 - Springer
The long-distance movement of small terrestrial mammals ensures functional connectivity
between populations. This movement depends on both landscape structure and the …

[PDF][PDF] Why are woodland-dependent avian insectivore populations vulnerable to declines in highly-modified landscapes?

AJ Cosgrove - 2017 - core.ac.uk
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation are the leading causes of faunal population
declines. Substantial effort has been invested in identifying how these landscape changes …