Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands

E Buisson, S Le Stradic, FAO Silveira… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite growing recognition of the conservation values of grassy biomes, our understanding
of how to maintain and restore biodiverse tropical grasslands (including savannas and open …

Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

RJ Standish, RJ Hobbs, MM Mayfield… - Biological …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

When natural habitat fails to enhance biological pest control–Five hypotheses

T Tscharntke, DS Karp, R Chaplin-Kramer… - Biological …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Ecologists and farmers often have contrasting perceptions about the value of natural habitat
in agricultural production landscapes, which so far has been little acknowledged in ecology …

[كتاب][B] Urban ecology: science of cities

RTT Forman - 2014‏ - books.google.com
How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

[كتاب][B] Package price agroecology: The ecology of sustainable food systems

SR Gliessman - 2021‏ - books.google.com
Stephen Gliessman's complementary volumes, Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable
Food Systems, Third Edition and Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology, Third …

Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis

J Fischer, DB Lindenmayer - Global ecology and biogeography, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation are key drivers of global species loss.
Their effects may be understood by focusing on:(1) individual species and the processes …

On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes

FPL Melo, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, L Fahrig… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013‏ - cell.com
With the decreasing affordability of protecting large blocks of pristine tropical forests,
ecologists have staked their hopes on the management of human-modified landscapes …

Conceptual domain of the matrix in fragmented landscapes

DA Driscoll, SC Banks, PS Barton… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013‏ - cell.com
In extensively modified landscapes, how the matrix is managed determines many
conservation outcomes. Recent publications revise popular conceptions of a homogeneous …

[كتاب][B] Conserving forest biodiversity: a comprehensive multiscaled approach

DB Lindenmayer, JF Franklin - 2013‏ - books.google.com
While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas
and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area—the" matrix"—are equally …

[كتاب][B] Habitat fragmentation and landscape change: an ecological and conservation synthesis

DB Lindenmayer, J Fischer - 2013‏ - books.google.com
Habitat loss and degradation that comes as a result of human activity is the single biggest
threat to biodiversity in the world today. Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change is a …