Cities have a major impact on Australian landscapes, especially in coastal regions, to the
detriment of native biodiversity. Areas suitable for urban development often coincide with …

Offsets, first formalised in the United States of America in the 1970s for wetland mitigation,
are now widely used globally with the aim to mitigate loss of biodiversity due to …

Urbanization involves the conversion of natural habitats into human‐modified ecosystems
and is known to reduce the diversity and abundance of indigenous plant and animal …

Five large (greater than 35 ha) urban bushland reserves in Greater Sydney were selected
where herpetofaunal assemblages could be deduced and there were recent herpetofauna …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are likely to seriously impact parasites, a less studied but
critical component of ecosystems, yet we lack long‐term experimental evidence. Parasites …

We evaluated the effect of tropical dry forest edges in fragments on reptile structure and
ecological groups, and their relationship to 15 environmental variables in the Caribbean …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are ongoing major anthropogenic impacts on landscapes,
which can strongly affect ecosystems, populations and species. The studies on forest …

There is a close link between the habitat of an organism and its behavior, performance, and
morphology. Many urban parks and gardens are modified such that the ground layer is more …

Reptiles in urban remnants are threatened with extinction by increased fire frequency,
habitat fragmentation caused by urban development, and competition and predation from …

Long-term ecological monitoring is crucial to understanding the complex dynamics of
ecosystems, communities, and populations. Despite this, monitoring data are lacking or rare …