Industrial forestry typically leads to a simplified forest structure and altered species
composition. Retention of trees at harvest was introduced about 25 years ago to mitigate …

In contemporary forest management, also of commercial forests, threshold values are widely
used for consideration of biodiversity conservation. Here, we present various aspects of …

Ecological systems are vulnerable to irreversible change when key system properties are
pushed over thresholds, resulting in the loss of resilience and the precipitation of a regime …

Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

The recognition that a system can appear resilient to changes in the environment, only to
reach a critical threshold of rapid and unexpected change, is spurring work to apply …

Biodiversity conservation in forestry and agricultural landscapes is important because (1)
reserves alone will not protect biodiversity;(2) commodity production relies on vital services …

To truly understand the current status of tropical diversity and to forecast future trends, we
need to increase emphasis on the study of biodiversity in rural landscapes that are actively …

Tip** points–where systems shift radically and potentially irreversibly into a different state–
have received considerable attention in ecology. Although there is convincing evidence that …

Habitat loss is the dominant threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial
environments. In this study, we used an a priori classification of bird species based on their …

A major conservation concern is whether population size and other ecological variables
change linearly with habitat loss, or whether they suddenly decline more rapidly below a …