Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key
aim of a sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement of crop fields and …

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

Habitat loss is a primary threat to biodiversity across the planet, yet contentious debate has
ensued on the importance of habitat fragmentation 'per se'(ie, altered spatial configuration of …

Highlights•Half Earth's prosocial environmental messaging could expand societal
engagement in conservation.•Half Earth is the largest land reallocation and governance …

Because of land use changes, a worldwide decrease in biodiversity is underway, mostly
driven by habitat degradation and fragmentation. Increasing landscape connectivity (ie the …

Decades of research suggest that species richness depends on spatial characteristics of
habitat patches, especially their size and isolation. In contrast, the habitat amount hypothesis …

Anthropogenic habitat destruction leads to habitat loss and fragmentation, both of which
interact to determine how biodiversity changes at the landscape level. While the detrimental …

Recent studies suggest that habitat amount is the main determinant of species richness,
whereas habitat fragmentation has weak and mostly positive effects. Here, we challenge …

Habitat fragmentation, an important element of current global change, has profound
repercussions on population and species extinction. Landscape fragmentation reduces …

Ecological corridors are effective to prevent ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss
through promoting the connection among discrete habitat patches. Identifying ecological …