As people encroach increasingly on natural areas, one question is how this affects avian biodiversity.
The answer to this is partly scale-dependent. At broad scales, human populations and biodiversity
concentrate in the same areas and are positively associated, but at local scales people and biodiversity are
negatively associated with biodiversity....
As people encroach increasingly on natural areas, one question is how this affects avian biodiversity.
The answer to this is partly scale-dependent. At broad scales, human populations and biodiversity
concentrate in the same areas and are positively associated, but at local scales people and biodiversity are
negatively associated with biodiversity....
Land-use change around protected areas limits their ability to conserve biodiversity by altering ecological processes such as natural hydrologic and disturbance regimes, facilitating species invasions, and interfering with dispersal of organisms. This paper informs USA National Wildlife Refuge System conservation planning by predicting future land-use change on lands within 25...
As people encroach increasingly on natural areas, one question is how this affects avian biodiversity. The answer to this is partly scale-dependent. At broad scales, human populations and biodiversity concentrate in the same areas and are positively associated, but at local scales people and biodiversity are negatively associated with biodiversity....
Habitat fragmentation studies have produced complex results that are challenging
to synthesize. Inconsistencies among studies may result from variation in
the choice of landscape metrics and response variables, which is often compounded
by a lack of key statistical or methodological information. Collating
primary datasets on biodiversity responses to fragmentation in...
Land-use change around protected areas can reduce their effective size and limit their ability to conserve biodiversity
because land-use change alters ecological processes and the ability of organisms to move freely among protected areas.
The goal of our analysis was to inform conservation planning efforts for a nationwide network of...