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 …

It has been increasingly recognized that the type of matrix surrounding habitat patches can
affect biodiversity in landscapes, but there were only qualitative reviews of the subject …

Urbanization results in habitat loss and habitat fragmentation concurrently, both influencing
biodiversity and ecological processes. To evaluate these impacts, it is important to …

Graph structures and habitat availability metrics are two recent and complementary
approaches for analysing landscape connectivity. They have gained rapid popularity and …

Ecotourism is a useful concept, but not a very well defined one. It has been debated in
theory and attempted in practice for nearly two decades. Its key goal is to reduce the net …

Urban–rural landscape planning research is nowadays focusing on strategies and tools that
support practitioners to design local areas where human and natural pressures interfere. A …

With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few
decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring …

It is a main purpose of this book to demonstrate how a very considerable number of results
in probability theory can be derived from simple urn models. We have deliberately restricted …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are global threats to biodiversity and major research topics in
ecology and conservation biology. We conducted a systematic review to assess where–the …

It is widely recognized that ecological dynamics influence evolutionary dynamics, and
conversely that evolutionary changes alter ecological processes. Because fragmentation …