Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

Ants are a dominant faunal group in tropical forests, but their responses to human
disturbances remain poorly investigated. Here we examine the relative effects of habitat …

Environmental stressors and changes in land use have led to rapid and dramatic species
losses. As such, we need effective monitoring programs that alert us not only to biodiversity …

As one of the world's prime megadiverse countries, Brazil holds an immense number of
terrestrial invertebrates. Current knowledge of this biota is very heterogeneous. Several taxa …

In this study we compared ground beetles (Carabidae) from a range of different forest
fragments along an urbanization gradient in Brussels, Belgium. We address the following …

Environmental indicators can be used to evaluate natural recovery processes. Although
several studies have used ant assemblage metrics as environmental indicators, few try to …

Aim To analyse the effects of forest fragmentation on ant communities in an Amazonian
landscape that has been fragmented for over a century. Location The region surrounding the …

Seminatural grasslands in Europe are susceptible to habitat destruction and fragmentation
that result in negative effects on biodiversity because of increased isolation and area effects …

Abstract Aim MacArthur and Wilson's theory of island biogeography proposes that the rate at
which species colonize an island depends on the island's isolation (distance effect) …

The main effects of habitat loss and fragmentation have been addressed through changes in
diversity patterns at different spatial levels. Species richness and diversity are the most used …