Divergent perspectives on landscape connectivity reveal consistent effects from genes to communities

RJ Fletcher, NS Burrell, BE Reichert, D Vasudev… - Current Landscape …, 2016 - Springer
Landscape connectivity is increasingly emphasized due to its relevance for interpreting
effects of environmental change. Yet substantial uncertainty remains regarding the …

Climate change and habitat destruction: a deadly anthropogenic cocktail

JMJ Travis - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change and habitat destruction are two of the greatest threats to global biodiversity.
Lattice models have been used to investigate how hypothetical species with different …

Connectivity, fragmentation, and extinction risk in dendritic metapopulations

WF Fagan - Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Neither linear nor two‐dimensional frameworks may be the most appropriate for fish and
other species constrained to disperse within river–creek systems. In particular, the …

Habitat amount modulates biodiversity responses to fragmentation

H Zhang, JM Chase, J Liao - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic habitat destruction leads to habitat loss and fragmentation, both of which
interact to determine how biodiversity changes at the landscape level. While the detrimental …

Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems.(MPB-42)

R Solé, J Bascompte - Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems …, 2012 - degruyter.com
Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most
ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural …

Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience?

CR Drever, G Peterson, C Messier… - Canadian Journal of …, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Étant donné l'augmentation globale des stress dans les forêts, plusieurs écologistes croient
que les gestionnaires doivent maintenir la résilience écologique, c'est-à-dire la capacité des …

[BOOK][B] Dispersal in plants: a population perspective

R Cousens, C Dytham, R Law - 2008 - books.google.com
This advanced textbook is the first to explore the consequences of plant dispersal for
population and community dynamics, spatial patterns, and evolution. It successfully …

Analysis of the periodically fragmented environment model: I–species persistence

H Berestycki, F Hamel, L Roques - Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2005 - Springer
This paper is concerned with the study of the stationary solutions of the equation where the
diffusion matrix A and the reaction term f are periodic in x. We prove existence and …

Patchy reaction-diffusion and population abundance: the relative importance of habitat amount and arrangement

CH Flather, M Bevers - The American Naturalist, 2002 - journals.uchicago.edu
A discrete reaction-diffusion model was used to estimate long-term equilibrium populations
of a hypothetical species inhabiting patchy landscapes to examine the relative importance of …

Long-distance plant dispersal and habitat fragmentation: identifying conservation targets for spatial landscape planning under climate change

RG Pearson, TP Dawson - Biological conservation, 2005 - Elsevier
Climate change presents a potentially severe threat to biodiversity. Species will be required
to disperse rapidly through fragmented landscapes in order to keep pace with the changing …