Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious
threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation …

Context Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation are widespread drivers of biodiversity
decline. Understanding how habitat quality interacts with landscape context, and how they …

Aim To identify characteristics of a human‐modified landscape that promote taxonomic (TD),
functional (FD) and phylogenetic (PD) dimensions of bat biodiversity. Location Caribbean …

Understanding how animal groups respond to contemporary habitat loss and fragmentation
is essential for development of strategies for species conservation. Until now, there has …

One third of Brazil has been converted to human‐modified lands, emphasising the need to
understand biodiversity's responses to land‐use changes. To address this issue, we …

Landscape-scale analysis is an evolving approach to quantify the effects of landscape
structure (composition and configuration) on focal species. Bats—a remarkably rich and …

Seasonality causes fluctuations in resource availability, affecting the presence and
abundance of animal species. The impacts of these oscillations on wildlife populations can …

Human-modified landscapes are composed of different types of land covers in differing
proportions (landscape composition), and each with differing spatial physiognomy …

Functional diversity is the variability in the functional roles carried out by species within
ecosystems. Changes in the environment can affect this component of biodiversity and can …

Recognition of the Anthropocene epoch formally acknowledges the pervasive and
increasingly dominant effects of human activities on the world's biomes. A defining …