Land‐use change is fragmenting natural ecosystems, with major consequences for
biodiversity. This paper reviews fragmentation trends–historical and current–in China, the …

Movement of organisms is one of the key mechanisms sha** biodiversity, eg the
distribution of genes, individuals and species in space and time. Recent technological and …

Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in
grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to …

Habitat loss and fragmentation has long been considered the primary cause for biodiversity
loss and ecosystem degradation worldwide, and is a key research topic in landscape …

Trophic interactions are a fundamental part of ecosystems; yet, most ecological studies focus
on single trophic levels and this hampers our ability to detect the underlying mechanisms …

Mega hydropower projects in tropical forests pose a major emergent threat to terrestrial and
freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Despite the unprecedented number of existing, under …

Islands formed upstream of mega hydroelectric dams are excellent experimental landscapes
to assess the impacts of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. We examined the effects of …

Hydropower projects are rapidly expanding across lowland Amazonia, driving the
conversion of large tracts of once-continuous forests into archipelagos embedded within a …

The loss of species diversity due to habitat fragmentation has been extensively studied. In
contrast, the impacts of habitat fragmentation on functional diversity remains relatively poorly …

Numerous mechanisms have been proposed to explain the island species–area
relationship (ISAR), including the passive sampling effect, the habitat diversity effect …