An ecological perspective for analysing rural depopulation and abandonment

F Lloret, A Escudero, J Lloret… - People and Nature, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Population loss in rural areas is rapidly increasing in high‐income countries, raising
concerns and debate, given its socio‐economic consequences. Despite the evident …

Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals

NJ Russo, AB Davies, RV Blakey, EM Ordway… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems function in a series of feedback loops that can change or maintain vegetation
structure. Vegetation structure influences the ecological niche space available to animals …

Tradeoffs between resources and risks shape the responses of a large carnivore to human disturbance

KL Mills, JL Belant, M Beukes, E Dröge… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Wide-ranging carnivores experience tradeoffs between dynamic resource availabilities and
heterogeneous risks from humans, with consequences for their ecological function and …

HomeRange: A global database of mammalian home ranges

MJE Broekman, S Hoeks, R Freriks… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Home range is a common measure of use of space by animals because it
provides ecological information that is useful for conservation applications. In …

Niche complementarity among plants and animals can alter the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship

A Amyntas, E Berti, B Gauzens, G Albert… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species‐rich communities exhibit higher levels of ecosystem functioning compared with
species‐poor ones, and this positive relationship strengthens over time. One proposed …

Ranging behaviours across ecological and anthropogenic disturbance gradients: a pan-African perspective of giraffe (Giraffa spp.) space use

MB Brown, JT Fennessy, RD Crego… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal movement behaviours are shaped by diverse factors, including resource availability
and human impacts on the landscape. We generated home range estimates and daily …

Anthropogenic impacts at the interface of animal spatial and social behaviour

KM Gaynor, B Abrahms… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human disturbance is contributing to widespread, global changes in the distributions and
densities of wild animals. These anthropogenic impacts on wildlife arise from multiple …

Horizon scan of transboundary concerns impacting snow leopard landscapes in Asia

H Sultan, W Rashid, J Shi, I Rahim, M Nafees… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The high-altitude region of Asia is prone to natural resource degradation caused by a variety
of natural and anthropogenic factors that also threaten the habitat of critical top predator …

Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals

MJE Broekman, JP Hilbers, S Hoeks… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As animal home range size (HRS) provides valuable information for species conservation, it
is important to understand the driving factors of HRS variation. It is widely known that …

Land parcellation reduced spatial redundancy resulting in grassland degradation

JX Jiao, SS Li, WY Wang, LY Qi, AA Degen… - People and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Degradation is the most immediate threat to biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods of
global pastoral grasslands. However, we are still uncertain why grassland degradation is …