Town and country reptiles: a review of reptilian responses to urbanization

SS French, AC Webb, SB Hudson… - Integrative and …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
The majority of the world population is now inhabiting urban areas, and with staggering
population growth, urbanization is also increasing. While the work studying the effects of …

Terminology and quantification of environmental heterogeneity in species‐richness research

A Stein, H Kreft - Biological Reviews, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Topographic determinants of mobile vertebrate predator hotspots: current knowledge and future directions

PJ Bouchet, JJ Meeuwig, CP Salgado Kent… - Biological …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite being identified as a driver of mobile predator aggregations (hotspots) in both
marine and terrestrial environments, topographic complexity has long remained a …

The contribution of contemporary climate to ectothermic and endothermic vertebrate distributions in a glacial refuge

P Aragón, JM Lobo, MÁ Olalla‐Tárraga… - Global Ecology and …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climatic factors are known to influence species distributions. However, elucidating the
underlying mechanisms is challenging because direct and indirect effects of climatic and …

Land use and biodiversity patterns of the herpetofauna: The role of olive groves

AJ Carpio, J Oteros, FS Tortosa, J Guerrero-Casado - Acta Oecologica, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The intensification of agriculture has significant environmental consequences. This
intensification entails the simplification and homogenisation of the landscape, which leads to …

Relative influence of habitat heterogeneity, climate, human disturbance, and spatial structure on vertebrate species richness in Spain

G Moreno-Rueda, M Pizarro - Ecological research, 2009‏ - Springer
Many factors affect the distribution of species richness. This study examines the relative
influence of habitat heterogeneity, climate, human disturbance, and spatial structure on the …

Landscape heterogeneity as a surrogate of biodiversity in mountain systems: What is the most appropriate spatial analytical unit?

P García-Llamas, L Calvo, M De la Cruz… - Ecological …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The estimated potential of landscape metrics as a surrogate for biodiversity is strongly
dependent on the spatial analytical unit used for evaluation. We assessed the relationship …

Drivers of distributions and niches of North American cold‐adapted amphibians: evaluating both climate and land use

T Seaborn, CS Goldberg, EJ Crespi - Ecological Applications, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution estimates are often used to understand the niche of a species; however,
these are often based solely on climatic predictors. When the influences of biotic factors are …

Ecological succession and habitat attributes affect the postfire response of a Mediterranean reptile community

X Santos, JM Poquet - European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2010‏ - Springer
Wildfires are recognized as natural disturbances that have shaped landscape structure and
ecosystem composition in many regions of the world. As ectotherms, many Mediterranean …

[HTML][HTML] The unusual suspect: Land use is a key predictor of biodiversity patterns in the Iberian Peninsula

IS Martins, V Proença, HM Pereira - Acta Oecologica, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Although land use change is a key driver of biodiversity change, related variables such as
habitat area and habitat heterogeneity are seldom considered in modeling approaches at …