Context Promoting landscape connectivity to support species movement has long been a key conservation strategy, one that is increasingly important as species move to track shifting climatic conditions...

Context Landscape connectivity assessments have almost exclusively relied on two-dimensional (2D) representations of the landscape, where any vertical heterogeneity–such as tree height–is collapsed in...

Context As global urbanization intensifies, Urban Green Spaces (UGS) are pivotal for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. However, comparative assessments of UGS spatial configurat...

Context Understanding how different biological groups respond to multiple drivers is essential for advancing freshwater ecology and improving biodiversity conservation. Objectives Here, we investigate...

Context Birds are declining worldwide, with farmland birds disproportionately affected. Most studies on farmland birds focus on single habitat types, yet agriculturally dominated landscapes are mosaic...

Context In 2005 Marc Antrop published the article “Why landscapes of the past are important for the future” that became a milestone for traditional and cultural landscapes research and planning, highl...

Context Alien plant invasions challenge biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration. The transdisciplinary nature of plant invasion prevention and management requires a holistic and spatially...

Context Forest fragmentation, defined as the spatial configuration of habitat within landscapes, has been quantified using an expanding range of metrics and analytical workflows. Although methodologic...

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Understanding the multi-scale effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is essential for effective conservation in a rapidly changing world. Here, we assessed plant functional composition in ed...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Context Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes represent a major driver of global environmental transformation, posing significant threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. Objectives ...

Small Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS; aka drones) have become increasingly popular research tools in the environmental sciences, allowing scientist to ...

Context The ecological implications of multiscale spatial heterogeneity remain poorly resolved in many parts of the ocean, especially at abyssal (3000–6000 m) and hadal (> 6000 m) depths. Seascape eco...

Context Theoretical and methodological developments in the field of fragmentation-biodiversity research continue to rely on the central concept of the habitat patch where patch size and number are con...

Context Understanding the roles of different drivers in land use and land cover change (LULCC) is a critical research challenge. However, as LULCC is the result of complex, socio-ecological processes ...

Landscape Ecology, an open access publication, is the flagship journal of a well-established and rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that focuses ...

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Context Habitat fragmentation is commonly analyzed in space, but continuity can also fail in time. Temporal habitat fragmentation describes this disruption of continuity and can be defined as the divi...

Context Changes in landscape patterns, which refer to the composition and spatial configuration of land use and land cover (LULC) classes in a landscape, can have negative impacts on biodiversity and ...

Context Ideally, connectivity models would be developed using animal movement data because connectivity is fundamentally specific to species and movement processes. However, it can take years to colle...

Inter-basin water transfer (IBWT) projects have been implemented worldwide as a strategy to enhance water security. However, there have been increasin…

Context Habitat loss is widely recognized as a major threat to biodiversity, but the effects of habitat fragmentation, whether positive or negative, remain controversial. It has been suggested that th...

Context Marine restoration is increasingly recognized as a key activity to regenerate ecosystem integrity, safeguard biodiversity, and enable ocean sustainability. Global policies such as the Kunming-...

Context Structural connectivity models provide critical insights on how movement potential varies across landscapes and can support decisions on where to prioritize land protection and restoration. Wa...

Landscape Ecology, an open access publication, is the flagship journal of a well-established and rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that focuses ...

Landscape Ecology, an open access publication, is the flagship journal of a well-established and rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that focuses ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers inhabited regions with challenging landscapes across the globe, from high-altitude mountains to deserts. Many of the sites found ...

Landscape Ecology, an open access publication, is the flagship journal of a well-established and rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that focuses ...

Context Relationship between soundscapes, habitat types, and landscape structure are insufficiently assessed in mountain landscapes. Characterizing soundscape patterns is important for understanding h...

Context Consistent with the diversity-stability hypothesis, high wildlife diversity has been associated with increased resilience and stability of ecosystem services and functions. Nevertheless, ecolo...

Wildlife species differ in their resistance to landscape modifications including habitat loss and fragmentation. We hypothesized that niche breadth is positively related to both (1) overall species oc...

Context Understanding how landscape fragmentation affects functional diversity, defined as the distribution of functional traits in an assemblage, is critical for managing landscapes for biodiversity ...

Context Consistent with the diversity-stability hypothesis, high wildlife diversity has been associated with increased resilience and stability of ecosystem services and functions. Nevertheless, ecolo...

Context Current research on urban ecosystem services faces three major challenges: scale gap, disciplinary barriers, and knowledge fragmentation, necessitating a systematic assessment framework to sup...

Context Changing global socioeconomics are endangering agrosilvopastoral landscapes and with them the knowledge of maintaining these historical, sustainable forms of territorial management. Approaches...

Context Private land conservation maintains global biodiversity while securing areas for biome shifts. Conservation easements (CEs) are the dominant form in both the US and increasingly, globally. Obj...

Context Urban green infrastructure (GI) multifunctionality is widely valued within the academic literature, and underpins calls from policy makers to enhance and expand GI resources. However, there is...

Context With 2022 marking the 40th anniversary of International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), landscape ecology has undergone substantial theoretical and methodological advances. A compreh...

Context Changing global socioeconomics are endangering agrosilvopastoral landscapes and with them the knowledge of maintaining these historical, sustainable forms of territorial management. Approaches...

Context Understanding the drivers of urban pollinator communities is relevant to both biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture, particularly in urban community gardens. However, much inte...

Landscape ecology focuses on the effects of landscape pattern and its changes on biodiversity, ecological processes, and ecosystem services with the ultimate ...

Context As land-use change and climate change transform landscapes globally, increases in habitat fragmentation and shifts in habitat composition present challenges for the conservation of wildlife. B...

Context Nutrient connectivity across landscapes and seascapes plays a fundamental role in shaping the structure and function of coastal ecosystems. A whole-system understanding of the spatial–temporal...