Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

Island biogeography theory (IBT) provides a basic conceptual model for understanding
habitat fragmentation. Empirical studies of fragmented landscapes often reveal strong effects …

Summary 1 We used genetic markers to study gene flow of the riparian pioneer tree species
Populus nigra along the Drôme river (France). This dioecious species is supposed to have …

Environmental synergisms may pose the greatest threat to tropical biodiversity. Using
recently updated data sets from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) …

Global warming impels species to track their shifting habitats or adapt to new conditions.
Both processes are critically influenced by individual dispersal. In many animals, dispersal …

Agro-ecosystems still retain part of the original biodiversity, although agricultural
intensification threatens to eliminate refuge patches from farmland mosaics. Landscape …

Patch occupancy models are extremely important and popular tools for understanding the
dynamics, and predicting the persistence, of spatially structured populations. Typically this …

Habitat dynamics (habitat turnover due to natural perturbations or human activity) are
commonplace, particularly in intensively used landscapes. Conservation planning requires …

The native or allochthonous nature of certain extant species of the Iberian Peninsula is a
matter of some controversy given our lack of knowledge regarding the survival and …

The term extinction threshold refers to a critical value of some attribute, such as the amount
of habitat in the landscape, below which a population, a metapopulation, or a species does …