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Diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) community dissimilarity reveals how low landscape connectivity restricts the ecological value of urban ponds
ContextStructural and functional connectivity, as subconcepts of landscape connectivity, are key factors in biodiversity conservation and management....
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Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data
ContextPattern metrics drawn from image processing and remote sensing have been applied as descriptors of the texture of landscape gradient data....
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Landscape connection and patch complexity explain plant community similarity in sandy grasslands better than habitat amount and landscape heterogeneity via network analysis
Based on the island biogeography theory and the habitat amount hypothesis, species richness and alpha diversity increase with an increase in...
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Bee diversity patterns in coastal Amazonia: effects of local habitat and landscape heterogeneity
Estuarine floodplain forests and mangroves play an important ecological role in nature. Little is known, however, about the contribution of these...
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Landscape structure is a key driver of soil protist diversity in meadows in the Swiss Alps
ContextHuman-induced changes in landscape structure are among the main causes of biodiversity loss. Despite their important contribution to...
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A Landscape-Scale Comparison of Wetlands Associated with Surface Coal Extraction and Naturally-Occurring Wetlands in the Central Appalachian Mountains, USA
Surface coal extraction exerts substantial influences on the structure and function of ecosystems throughout the central Appalachian Mountains of...
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Structure of the assemblage of fruit-feeding butterflies in a high Andean anthropogenic landscape
The high Andean mountains are ecosystems subject to high human pressure activities, resulting in disturbed areas increasingly dominating the...
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Does landscape composition influence the diets of feral cats in agroecosystems?
Habitat fragmentation can influence the diet of mammalian predators, potentially increasing their impact on prey species. Agroecosystems are...
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Inferences on Landscape Pattern
Landscape ecologists are deeply invested in pattern: how to measure it, how to interpret those measures, and how to use them in applications. Much of...
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Influence of landscape and livestock management on dung beetle diversity in tropical cattle pastures
To achieve a balance between conservation and livestock production in the context of highly degraded tropical landscapes, we need a research approach...
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Determinants of bird beta diversity patterns in a landscape with a relict habitat in northern Argentina
Understanding the determinants of beta diversity patterns is important in ecology and conservation. However, few vertebrate studies have been...
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Testing for synergistic effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance on ecological communities at a landscape scale
ContextAnthropogenic and natural disturbances may interact synergistically, magnifying their individual effects on biodiversity. However, few studies...
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Landscape matrix and substrate jointly shape the trait composition of true bug (Heteroptera) communities in drainage ditches
Drainage ditches play a key role in the conservation of fragmented landscapes by providing refuge sites and secondary habitats for many terrestrial...
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Landscape genetics in a highly threatened environment: how relevant to ants is the physiognomic mosaic of the cerrado savanna?
The Brazilian cerrado is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, comprising a mosaic of vegetation physiognomies. The cerrado presents a high ant...
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Structural resilience and high interaction dissimilarity of plant–pollinator interaction networks in fire-prone grasslands
Fire is a frequent disturbance in most grasslands around the world, being key for the structure and dynamics of the biodiversity in such ecosystems....
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Ecological traits interact with landscape context to determine bees’ pesticide risk
Widespread contamination of ecosystems with pesticides threatens non-target organisms. However, the extent to which life-history traits affect...
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A new methodology to quantify structural landscape impacts of land use/land cover change using moving window metrics: a case study in a Chilean coastal basin
Land use and land cover changes (LULC) result in alterations to landscape structure, with particularly significant consequences in the landscapes of...
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Better together: integrating mist-nets and bioacoustics reveals large-scale native vegetation as a key predictor of bat community conservation in a fragmented landscape
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and land conversion for human use are currently the main drivers of biodiversity loss in the Neotropics. Agropastoral...
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Effective dispersal and genetic structure of a small mammal in an intensively managed agricultural landscape: is there any barrier to movement?
Dispersal and gene flow are key processes for the persistence of populations, because they enable the maintenance of large effective population sizes...
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From green to grey: Unravelling the role of urbanization on diversity of dung beetles in an Amazonian landscape
The Brazilian Amazon has undergone an intense process of urbanization responsible for changes in the land use and land cover patterns in the last...
