Habitat transformation is one of the leading causes of changes in biodiversity and the
breakdown of ecosystem function and services. The impacts of habitat transformation on …

Climate-driven poleward shifts, leading to changes in species composition and relative
abundances, have been recently documented in the Arctic. Among the fastest moving …

A long-standing question in community ecology is what determines the identity of species
that coexist across local communities or metacommunity assembly. To shed light upon this …

Many organisms maintain collective territories and compete on behalf of the fitness of the
overall group. Inspired by this concept, the territorial raider model is a graph-based resource …

The “Saline di Tarquinia” salterns have been scarcely investigated regarding their
microbiological aspects. This work studied the structure and composition of their bacterial …

A common property of landscapes and metacommunities is the occurrence of abrupt shifts in
connectivity along gradients of individual dispersal abilities. Animals with short‐range …

Background Taxon-and/or ecosystem-based definitions of management units typically focus
on conspicuous species and physical habitat limits; these definitions implicitly assume that …

Several studies have reported that fragmentation (eg of anthropogenic origin) of habitats
often leads to a decrease in the number of species in the region. An important mechanism …

Landscape ecologists have increasingly turned to the use of landscape graphs in which a
landscape is represented as a set of nodes (habitat patches) connected by links …

Abadie et al., Journal of Ecology, 99, 2011, 1134 claim that 'landscape disturbance causes
small‐scale functional homogenization but limited taxonomic homogenization'. This …