Global climate change is frequently considered a major conservation threat. The Earth's
climate has already warmed by 0.5° C over the past century, and recent studies show that it …

Thus, selection on genital anatomy of both sexes may be similar to that producing sperm
competition. Dewsbury suggested a very similar scenario in regard to copulatory behavior …

HABITAT destruction is the major cause of species extinctions1–3. Dominant species often
are considered to be free of this threat because they are abundant in the undisturbed …

All organisms, especially terrestrial plants and other sessile species, interact mainly with
their neighbors, but neighborhoods can differ in composition because of dispersal and …

This book is a short introductory text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in
ecology. Designed as a guide to the more commonly encountered mathematical models in …

The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife
management and conservation. Habitat" corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important …

The difficulty of directly measuring gene flow has lead to the common use of indirect
measures extrapolated from genetic frequency data. These measures are variants of FST, a …

Traditional approaches to the study of fragmented landscapes invoke an island-ocean
model and assume that the nonhabitat matrix surrounding remnant patches is uniform. Patch …

While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas
and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area—the" matrix"—are equally …

We propose an integrated, heuristic model of lotic biocomplexity across spatiotemporal
scales from headwaters to large rivers. This riverine ecosystem synthesis (RES) provides a …