Conservation planning is the process of locating, configuring, implementing and maintaining
areas that are managed to promote the persistence of biodiversity and other natural values …

As landscapes throughout Europe and eastern North America recover from past agricultural
use, forests continue to reflect their agricultural history. For centuries after agriculture has …

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of
species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of …

Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species
Occurrence, Second Edition, provides a synthesis of model-based approaches for analyzing …

Connectivity is a major concern for the maintenance of wildlife populations, ecological flows,
and many other landscape functions. For these reasons many different connectivity indices …

We examined the response of vascular plant species richness to long‐term habitat loss and
fragmentation of Estonian calcareous grasslands (alvars). The current number of habitat …

Aim To examine whether the tree flora of the Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil has
experienced detectable taxonomic homogenization via the proliferation of native pioneer …

Following habitat fragmentation individual habitat patches may lose species over time as
they pay off their “extinction debt.” Species with relatively low rates of population extinction …

Particularly in the temperate climate zone many forests have, at some moment in their
history, been used as agriculture land. Forest cover is therefore often not as stable as it …

Summary 1 Disturbance may cause community composition across sites to become more or
less homogenous, depending on the importance of different processes involved in …