Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological
processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating effects of global …

Tourism is a large, diffuse global industry. Environmental aspects are little studied, with∼
1,500 publications in total. Impacts range from global contributions to climate change and …

The increasing landscape heterogeneity in the agro-pastoral areas and the contradiction
between the development and biodiversity conservation is becoming more and more …

Population viability can depend on habitat area, habitat quality, the spatial arrangement of
habitats (aggregations and connections) and the properties of the intervening non‐breeding …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 841–851 Abstract Ecological specialisation concerns all species
and underlies many major ecological and evolutionary patterns. Yet its status as a unifying …

Disentangling the mechanisms mediating the coexistence of habitat specialists and
generalists has been a long-standing subject of investigation. However, the roles of species …

Cities are growing rapidly worldwide, yet a mechanistic understanding of the impact of
urbanization on biodiversity is lacking. We assessed the impact of urbanization on arthropod …

Biodiversity of semi-natural grasslands depends on the management practices used.
However, management systems suitable for one taxon, such as plants, can be detrimental to …

Natural habitats in rural and urban areas are increasingly fragmented and altered by human
impacts that are limiting the animal and plant dispersal process. Fragmentation and isolation …

Land-use change has caused degradation, loss and fragmentation of semi-natural habitats,
especially in grassland ecosystems. Today, the remaining habitats are often situated in a …