Animal movements in fire‐prone landscapes

DG Nimmo, S Avitabile, SC Banks… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Movement is a trait of fundamental importance in ecosystems subject to frequent
disturbances, such as fire‐prone ecosystems. Despite this, the role of movement in …

Coupling movement and landscape ecology for animal conservation in production landscapes

TS Doherty, DA Driscoll - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Habitat conversion in production landscapes is among the greatest threats to biodiversity,
not least because it can disrupt animal movement. Using the movement ecology framework …

Seed‐dispersal interactions in fragmented landscapes–a metanetwork approach

C Emer, M Galetti, MA Pizo, PR Guimaraes Jr… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mutualistic interactions repeatedly preserved across fragmented landscapes can scale‐up
to form a spatial metanetwork describing the distribution of interactions across patches. We …

The macroecology of landscape ecology

C Banks-Leite, MG Betts, RM Ewers, CDL Orme… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
One of landscape ecology's main goals is to unveil how biodiversity is impacted by habitat
transformation. However, the discipline suffers from significant context dependency in …

Land use type, forest cover and forest edges modulate avian cross‐habitat spillover

AL Boesing, E Nichols… - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Natural habitats adjacent to agricultural areas are often considered sources of species that
provide beneficial regulating ecosystem services through cross‐habitat spillover. Both inter …

Seed dispersal networks in tropical forest fragments: Area effects, remnant species, and interaction diversity

C Emer, P Jordano, MA Pizo, MC Ribeiro… - Biotropica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seed dispersal interactions involve key ecological processes in tropical forests that help to
maintain ecosystem functioning. Yet this functionality may be threatened by increasing …

Living in a fragmented world: Birds in the Atlantic Forest

MA Pizo, VR Tonetti - The Condor, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Atlantic Forest is the second largest tropical moist forest domain in South
America after the Amazon, home to over 800 bird species (223 endemics or 27% of the …

Dietary and habitat specialization, eye size, clutch size, and aerial lifestyle predict avian fragmentation sensitivity in an Andean biodiversity hotpot

HH Jones, MJ Bedoya-Durán, GJ Colorado Z… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
The fragmentation of tropical forests remains a major driver of avian biodiversity loss,
particularly for insectivores, yet the mechanisms underlying area sensitivity remain poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat fragmentation drives inter-population variation in dispersal behavior in a Neotropical rainforest bird

C Cornelius, M Awade, C Cândia-Gallardo… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Conservation ecology research, management and modeling often assume species-specific
fixed traits ignoring intraspecific variation. Dispersal in animals is a heritable trait where …

Determinants of departure to natal dispersal across an elevational gradient in a long‐lived raptor species

P Scherler, S Witczak, A Aebischer… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Attributes of natal habitat often affect early stages of natal dispersal. Thus, environmental
gradients at mountain slopes are expected to result in gradients of dispersal behavior and to …