Land‐use change is fragmenting natural ecosystems, with major consequences for
biodiversity. This paper reviews fragmentation trends–historical and current–in China, the …

Shifting cultivation is a traditional land-use system to ensure livelihood in the Northern
Amazon. Here, we evaluated how intensification of shifting cultivation (SC) affects secondary …

The expansion of rubber plantations in northern Southeast Asia over the last 20 years
displaced shifting cultivation and tropical forests. In Xishuangbanna, SW China, rubber …

Understanding how forest fragment size, topography, forest structure, and soil properties
affect plant diversity remains a crucial question in conservation biology, with ferns often …

The main terrestrial ecosystems dominated by lichens and mosses, which represent
important ecological indicators of climatic changes in high polar latitudes, are found in the …

Our understanding of the patterns of plant diversity in tropical forests and their responses to
fragmentation are mostly based on tree surveys. But are these patterns and responses …

Habitat selection is a complex process, and animals may change their habitat selection over
time. However, we have a poor understanding of temporal variation in habitat selection of …

Hunting and deforestation are the two biggest threats to vertebrates in Southeast Asia. In the
last 50 years, monoculture rubber plantations replaced large areas of tropical rainforests in …

Species in transformed habitats, frequently labeled as environmental generalists, tend to
show broader niches than species in natural habitats. However, how population niche …

The theory behind metacommunity was recently reframed to incorporate the concepts of
community ecology. Here we investigate how slight topographic variations might locally …