The interaction between topography and wind influences snow cover patterns, which can determine the distribution of species reliant on snow-free habitats. Past studies suggest snow accumulation creates suboptimal breeding habitats for Adélie penguins, leading to colony extinctions. However, evidence linking snow cover to landscape features is lacking. We aimed to model landscape...
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. We illustrate the differences in the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) and a fine-scale curated collection of CEs, the Granular Conservation Easement Datasets (GCED), which fills...
Land use/land cover change (LULCC) is rapidly altering the quality and quantity of the habitat matrix for many species, potentially reducing the connectivity of species across the landscape. Many measures of connectivity do not directly account for quantitative movement behavior, which can inform the relative influence of specific landscape features on overall connectivity. We...
Changing global socioeconomics are endangering agrosilvopastoral landscapes and with them the knowledge of maintaining these historical, sustainable forms of territorial management. Approaches that integrate Local Spatial Knowledge (LSK) with scientific methods are valuable means to understand their landscape heritage, identity, and temporal land use and land cover (LULC). Our...
Economic incentives for habitat creation in productive agricultural land are an important tool for halting biodiversity loss. Given inevitable funding constraints, assessing the cost-effectiveness of potential habitat creation strategies should be a priority. We make model predictions of changes in the populations of ten woodland-affiliated bird species over time across a set of...
Landscape structure and environmental conditions influence the distribution and abundance of adult fish, with significant implications for ecosystem functioning. However, our understanding of seascape effects on juvenile fish remains comparatively limited. We examined how habitat composition, seascape configuration, and environmental context shape juvenile fish assemblages across...
North American deserts are changing due to expansion and increasing intensity of human activities. Disturbances and landscape change affect harvester ants, a keystone species in dryland ecosystems. Imagery acquired from small Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (sUAVs) was analyzed to assess above-ground ant responses to change over time in the context of disturbance ecology and...
Habitat loss and fragmentation are two processes resulting from land-use changes that significantly affect biodiversity worldwide. These two processes alongside illegal hunting are the main causes of the reduction in fauna diversity, richness, and biomass, which together characterize defaunation. Large animal species are the most affected by this process, compromising ecosystem...
Estimating the distribution of rare species is an important component of conservation. The occurrence of such species is often only known from few presence-only observations and the spatial scales at which they select resources is poorly understood. Scientists often select arbitrary discrete spatial scales for estimating distribution models; however, resource selection follows a...
Approaches estimating landscape effects on biodiversity frequently focus on a single extent, finding one ‘optimal’ extent, or use narrow extents. However, species perceive the environment in different ways, select habitat hierarchically, and respond to multiple selection pressures at extents that best predict each pressure. We aimed to assess multi-scale relationships between...
Current research on urban ecosystem services faces three major challenges: scale gap, disciplinary barriers, and knowledge fragmentation, necessitating a systematic assessment framework to support precise governance decisions. This study proposes a cascading "Typology-multifunctionality-supply and demand
Urbanization has detrimental effects on biodiversity, yet how species respond to urban planning zoning outcomes and environmental changes at different spatial scales when selecting urban breeding habitats remains understudied. Mitigating such impacts on wildlife is instrumental to create biodiversity-friendly cities while accommodating urban development. We used Barn Swallow...
Biodiversity in agroecosystems has experienced significant declines in species richness due to intensive agricultural practices. Historically, diverse agricultural landscapes have been replaced by nutrient-rich monocultures. To improve the situation, it is important to find out what are the attributes of these landscapes that support the highest species richness. This study...
With 2022 marking the 40th anniversary of International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), landscape ecology has undergone substantial theoretical and methodological advances. A comprehensive quantitative bibliometric analysis can help better understand how the field has evolved during the past four decades. The main objectives of this review were: (1) to examine the 40...
Global climate change is predicted to cause long-term changes in bird distributions and populations. Although previous studies often prioritized understanding avian responses to shifting climate conditions, recent efforts increasingly incorporate landscape change as an additional factor. We evaluated current and potential future effects of both climate and landscape change on the...
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 a gap in understanding concerning how GI connectivity and size influence GI multifunctionality outcomes. The objectives are to: (1) present the current status of research on urban GI...
Improving the quality of urban parks is important for effective planning and sustainable management, with resident satisfaction serving as a key indicator. Current research usually favours analyses focused on single environmental features while ignoring the influence of spatial composition and configuration. This study aims to investigate the relationships among environmental...
Shifts in precipitation regimes due to climate change are significantly impacting dryland ecosystems, including vegetation composition and structure. Unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used to monitor vegetation, but whether models built to predict changes in these characteristics are robust under extreme precipitation regimes is unclear. We aimed to predict key...
Urban landscapes present a diverse matrix of structures and habitats containing significant physical and behavioural barriers to terrestrial wildlife dispersal. Yet, our understanding of these barriers for large mammals in the context of genetic connectivity within urbanising landscapes is limited. We investigated the effects of landscape structures on the genetic differentiation...
Across Alpine landscapes, a combination of land-use abandonment and climate change is driving forest expansion and promoting the upward migration of trees on grasslands. Yet, it remains unclear how rapidly the upper forest-grassland ecotone will shift and how tree species composition will change, both in terms of species proportions and along elevational gradients. Our aim is to...
The study of landscape over different years through the analysis of different sources (cadasters, aerophotos, orthophotos, satellite images) is commonly used in landscape planning and in researches focusing on landscape and land use changes and transformations. Most of these studies, despite the scale and the period analyzed, tend to apply different methodologies, making it...