It has been increasingly recognized that the type of matrix surrounding habitat patches can
affect biodiversity in landscapes, but there were only qualitative reviews of the subject …

La Crosse virus (LACV) is the most common cause of neuroinvasive mosquito-borne
disease in children within the United States. Despite more than 50 years of recognized …

Landscape pattern indicators or 'metrics' provide simple measures of landscape structure
that can be easily calculated with readily available data and software. Unfortunately, the …

There has long been a debate amongst conservation biologists about how agricultural land
use should be distributed spatially. Advocates of land sparing argue that high‐intensity food …

Context An understanding of species-habitat relationships is required to assess the impacts
of habitat fragmentation and degradation. To date, habitat modeling in fragmented …

Climate change and habitat destruction are widely recognized as major threats to species'
survival. As a result of these anthropogenic impacts, species are often forced into novel …

Taking a functional rather than an ecosystem or a utilitarian approach, Thomas and
Packham provide a concise account of the structure of woodlands and forests. Using …

Habitat loss must be distinguished from habitat fragmentation so that appropriate
conservation management can be applied. Few studies have evaluated the independent …

Urbanization is the dominant trend of global land use change. The replicated nature of
environmental change associated with urbanization should drive parallel evolution, yet …

Widespread conversion of deciduous forests to agriculture in the midwestern United States
has resulted in landscapes whose remaining native habitats are highly fragmented, with well …