Reframing the land‐sparing/land‐sharing debate for biodiversity conservation

C Kremen - Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conservation biologists are devoting an increasing amount of energy to debating whether
land sparing (high‐yielding agriculture on a small land footprint) or land sharing (low …

Conceptual domain of the matrix in fragmented landscapes

DA Driscoll, SC Banks, PS Barton… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013‏ - cell.com
In extensively modified landscapes, how the matrix is managed determines many
conservation outcomes. Recent publications revise popular conceptions of a homogeneous …

Experimental evidence does not support the Habitat Amount Hypothesis

NM Haddad, A Gonzalez, LA Brudvig, MA Burt… - …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
For a half century, habitat configuration–the arrangement of habitat patches within a
landscape–has been central to theories of landscape ecology, population dynamics, and …

The prominent role of the matrix in ecology, evolution, and conservation

RJ Fletcher Jr, TAH Smith, S Troy… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
As the Anthropocene proceeds, the matrix in which remaining habitats are embedded is an
increasingly dominant component of altered landscapes. The matrix appears to have …

Coupling movement and landscape ecology for animal conservation in production landscapes

TS Doherty, DA Driscoll - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Habitat conversion in production landscapes is among the greatest threats to biodiversity,
not least because it can disrupt animal movement. Using the movement ecology framework …

Landscape elements as potential barriers and corridors for bees, wasps and parasitoids

KM Krewenka, A Holzschuh, T Tscharntke… - Biological …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Habitat loss and fragmentation in agricultural landscapes lead to severe declines of
abundance and richness of many insect species in the remaining isolated semi-natural …

Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity

IAN Breckheimer, NM Haddad, WF Morris… - Conservation …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conserving or restoring landscape connectivity between patches of breeding habitat is a
common strategy to protect threatened species from habitat fragmentation. By managing …

Butterfly dispersal in inhospitable matrix: rare, risky, but long-distance

P Nowicki, V Vrabec, B Binzenhöfer, J Feil, B Zakšek… - Landscape …, 2014‏ - Springer
Metapopulation models typically assume that suitable habitats occupied by local
populations and unsuitable matrix separating them form a 'black-and-white'landscape …

Corridors as a tool for linking habitats–Shortcomings and perspectives for plant conservation

E Travers, W Härdtle, D Matthies - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Habitat fragmentation and isolation are considered important causes of biodiversity loss in
cultural landscapes. To counter the negative effects of fragmentation such as reduced …

Advances and challenges in ecological connectivity science

AR Liczner, R Pither, JR Bennett… - Ecology and …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Maintaining and restoring ecological connectivity will be key in hel** to prevent and
reverse the loss of biodiversity. Fortunately, a growing body of research conducted over the …