The use of local ecological knowledge (LEK) has been advocated for biodiversity monitoring
and management. To date, however, it has been underused in studying wild populations of …

Extinctions are often the result of multiple factors that are difficult to disentangle and so
methods for identifying simple and combined types of extinctions are valuable for both basic …

The human exploitation of land resources (land use) has been considered the major factor
responsible for changes in biodiversity within terrestrial ecosystems given that it affects …

Animal populations have developed multiple strategies to deal with environmental change.
Among them, the demographic buffering strategy consists in constraining the temporal …

The intensification of agriculture has significant environmental consequences. This
intensification entails the simplification and homogenisation of the landscape, which leads to …

Major landscape transformations have occurred in the northern Mediterranean over the last
decades, including urbanization, agricultural intensification and land abandonment, which …

Context Land-use change is one of the main threats to biodiversity on the global scale.
Legacy effects of historical land-use changes may affect population dynamics of long-lived …

Fire is one of the main disturbances to terrestrial environments, transforming habitat
structure and affecting community composition. Coupled with fire, forest type and vegetation …

Understanding how species have responded to past climate changes might inform how
current climate change may affect species. However, current perspectives on species' …

Fire and fire management are recognized as important factors in biodiversity conservation.
Measuring species-level demographic, behavioural and population responses to different …