Conservation plans increasingly include goals to maintain a connected network. For
example, planners might design a linkage between two conserved areas, or the parties to …

Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

Landscape pattern significantly impacts habitat quality, especially in cities undergoing rapid
urbanization, where landscape patterns are changing dramatically. However, the spatial and …

Cities are expanding green infrastructure and presenting it as a panacea for social and
environmental challenges, but the reality is more complex and inherently political. We need …

Habitat fragmentation is a primary cause of biodiversity loss. As an essential part of the
ecosystem, soil microorganisms participate in a series of ecosystem processes. However …

Earth's ancient grasslands and savannas—hereafter old-growth grasslands—have long
been viewed by scientists and environmental policymakers as early successional plant …

Landscape patterns are important drivers of biodiversity. Owing to differences in vegetation
types, sampling methods, diversity measures, spatial scales, and landscape levels, the …

Habitat loss is one of the key drivers of the ongoing decline of biodiversity. However,
ecologists still argue about how fragmentation of habitat (independent of habitat loss) affects …

Global biodiversity assessments have highlighted land-use change as a key driver of
biodiversity change. However, there is little empirical evidence of how habitat …

Restoration outcomes are notoriously unpredictable and this challenges the capacity to
reliably meet goals. To harness ecological restoration's full potential, significant advances to …