Biodiversity is presently a minor consideration in environmental policy. It has been regarded
as too broad and vague a concept to be applied to real‐world regulatory and management …

Abstract Research on fragmented ecosystems has focused mostly on the biogeograpbic
consequences of the creation of habitat “islands” of different sizes and has provided little of …

The unprecedented rate of extinction calls for efficient use of genetics to help conserve
biodiversity. Several recent genomic and simulation-based studies have argued that the …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Mangrove species are uniquely adapted to tropical and subtropical coasts, and although
relatively low in number of species, mangrove forests provide at least US $1.6 billion each …

Biotic invaders are species that establish a new range in which they proliferate, spread, and
persist to the detriment of the environment. They are the most important ecological outcomes …

Acts in what Hutchinson (1965) has called the'ecological theatre'are played out on various
scales of space and time. To understand the drama, we must view it on the appropriate …

Metapopulation is the ecological term for assemblages of plant and animal species within
larger areas of space, with long-term survival of the species depending on a shifting balance …

Although the potential genetic risks associated with rare or endangered plants and small
populations have been discussed previously, the practical role of population genetics in …

Increasing human population interacts with local and global environments to deplete
biodiversity and resources humans depend on, thus challenging societal values centered on …