Environmental heterogeneity is considered to be one of the main factors associated with
biodiversity given that areas with highly heterogeneous environments can host more …

Assessing the level of diversity in plant communities from field‐based data is difficult for a
number of practical reasons:(1) establishing the number of sampling units to be investigated …

Monitoring protected areas and their surrounds at local to regional scales is essential given
their vulnerability to anthropogenic pressures, including those associated with climatic …

Two prominent limitations of species distribution models (SDM s) are spatial biases in
existing occurrence data and a lack of spatially explicit predictor variables to fully capture …

Spatial environmental heterogeneity (EH) is an important driver of species diversity, and its
influence on species richness has been analysed for numerous taxa, in diverse ecological …

Agricultural intensification has substantially reduced multi-scale habitat heterogeneity,
including increased field size and loss of semi-natural structures, thus resulting in large …

Maintenance of ecological integrity and biodiversity must be based on well‐grounded
principles of disturbance ecology. However, non‐equilibrium aspects of ecosystems, such …

Habitat structure is important in explaining species diversity patterns for many animal
groups. If we could map habitat structure over large spatial scales, we could use habitat …

Conservation of biodiversity in agroecosystems is a global challenge as conversion of forest
to agroecosystems has been one of the major causes for biodiversity loss through habitat …

Recognizing the imperative need for biodiversity protection, the convention on biological
diversity (CBD) has recently established new targets towards 2020, the so-called Aichi …