Connectivity and fragmentation

Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture-savanna mosaics of western India
Avian biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is declining globally. In Europe and America, agricultural homogenization and the decline …
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Hunting and habitat destruction drive widespread functional declines of top predators in a global deforestation hotspot

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We investigated the effects of habitat destruction and hunting on the functional decline of top predators, specifically jaguar and …
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Recent Sociocultural Changes Reverse the Long-Term Trend of Declining Habitat Availability for Large Wild Mammals in Europe

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People have strongly influenced the biosphere for millennia, but how their increasing activities have shaped wildlife distribution …
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Risk response towards roads is consistent across multiple species in a temperate forest ecosystem
Roads can have diverse impacts on wildlife species, and while some species may adapt effectively, others may not. Studying multiple …
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The impacts of reduced connectivity on multiple facets of aquatic insect diversity in floodplain wetlands, Northeast China
River-floodplain ecosystems are highly complex and dynamic systems that are subjected to human disturbance, such as the construction of …
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Increasing mortality of European bison (Bison bonasus) on roads and railways
Traffic mortality can pose a serious risk to endangered species that occur in small populations, are mobile and occupy fragmented …
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Understanding habitat selection of range-expanding populations of large carnivores: 20 years of grey wolves (Canis lupus) recolonizing Germany

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The non-stationarity in habitat selection of expanding populations poses a significant challenge for spatial forecasting. Focusing …
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Partitioning the effects of habitat loss, hunting and climate change on the endangered Chacoan peccary

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Land-use change and overexploitation are major threats to biodiversity, and climate change will exert additional pressure in the …
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Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore

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Adjustments in habitat use by large carnivores can be a key factor facilitating their coexistence with people in shared …
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Spatial variation in red deer density in a transboundary forest ecosystem
Forests in Europe are exposed to increasingly frequent and severe disturbances. The resulting changes in the structure and composition …
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