Designing optimal human‐modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation

V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, L Fahrig, M Tabarelli… - Ecology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?

L Fahrig - Global ecology and biogeography, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background The principle that a single large habitat patch should hold more species than
several small patches totalling the same area (SL> SS) is used by conservation agencies to …

Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity?

L Fahrig, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, JR Bennett… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In a review of landscape-scale empirical studies, Fahrig (2017a) found that ecological
responses to habitat fragmentation per se (fragmentation independent of habitat amount) …

Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies

JI Watling, V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, M Pfeifer… - Ecology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Decades of research suggest that species richness depends on spatial characteristics of
habitat patches, especially their size and isolation. In contrast, the habitat amount hypothesis …

Beyond the fragmentation threshold hypothesis: regime shifts in biodiversity across fragmented landscapes

R Pardini, AA Bueno, TA Gardner, PI Prado… - PloS one, 2010‏ - journals.plos.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Intact forests in the United States: Proforestation mitigates climate change and serves the greatest good

WR Moomaw, SA Masino, EK Faison - Frontiers in Forests and Global …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Climate change and loss of biodiversity are widely recognized as the foremost
environmental challenges of our time. Forests annually sequester large quantities of …

OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes

SD Hopper - Plant and soil, 2009‏ - Springer
OCBIL theory aims to develop an integrated series of hypotheses explaining the evolution
and ecology of, and best conservation practices for, biota on very old, climatically buffered …

The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

M Tabarelli, CA Peres, FPL Melo - Biological Conservation, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Despite its relevance to contemporary biodiversity conservation, the ecological mechanisms
controlling nonrandom species replacements and biotic homogenization of native biotas …

Conservation value of small reserves

ZM Volenec, AP Dobson - Conservation Biology, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The importance of large reserves has been long maintained in the scientific literature, often
leading to dismissal of the conservation potential of small reserves. However, over half the …

Plant β‐diversity in fragmented rain forests: testing floristic homogenization and differentiation hypotheses

V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, M Rös, F Escobar… - Journal of …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is the main driver of global biodiversity loss, but its relative impact on
species turnover (β‐diversity) across multiple spatial scales remains unclear. Plant …