Species environmental niches are central to ecology, evolution, and global change
research, but their characterization and interpretation depend on the spatial scale …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

Concerns for biodiversity loss, wildlife conservation, and habitat destruction have dominated
the policy agenda worldwide for decades. Unsustainable human-induced development and …

Background The increasing human population and global intensification of agriculture have
had a major impact on the world's natural ecosystems and caused devastating effects on …

Many bats are threatened by habitat loss, but opportunities to manage their habitats are now
increasing. Success of management depends greatly on the capacity to determine where …

Climate change vulnerability assessments are an important tool for understanding the threat
that climate change poses to species and populations, but do not generally yield insight into …

With grasslands and savannas covering 20% of the world's land surface, accounting for 30–
35% of worldwide Net Primary Productivity and supporting hundreds of millions of people …

While corridors in conservation have a long history of use, evaluations of proposed or
existing corridors in conservation landscapes are important to avoid the same fate as poorly …

The relationship between resource availability and wildlife movement patterns is pivotal to
understanding species behavior and ecology. Movement response to landscape variables …

Niche theory in its various forms is based on those environmental factors that permit species
persistence, but less work has focused on defining the extent, or size, of a species' …