Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Amanda K. Martin, Jennifer A. Sheridan
Summary: Alterations in body size have significant impacts on an organism's life history and ecology, and are influenced by climate and land use changes. Climate warming leads to smaller body sizes, while urbanization primarily results in body size increases. However, few studies have explored the combined effects of climate and land use changes on body size.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Maurizio Fraissinet, Leonardo Ancillotto, Antonello Migliozzi, Silvia Capasso, Luciano Bosso, Dan E. Chamberlain, Danilo Russo
Summary: This study utilized longitudinal bird monitoring data to analyze the occurrence trends of urban birds in Naples. The species richness of breeding birds remained stable over time, but there were changes in the composition of bird species associated with different types of land cover.
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Cendrine Mony, Lea Uroy, Fadwa Khalfallah, Nick Haddad, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse
Summary: Land use changes have led to a decrease in global biodiversity, and increasing landscape connectivity is proposed as a key strategy to counterbalance the negative effects of habitat fragmentation. However, the existing framework on connectivity has overlooked microorganisms, which represent a significant proportion of Earth's biodiversity. This review explores the influence of connectivity on microorganisms and highlights the need for further research to understand their response to connectivity and its implications for microbial communities and ecosystem services.
Article
Soil Science
Pamela Niederauer Pompeo, Luis Carlos Iunes Oliveira Filho, Douglas Alexandre, Ana Carolina Lovatel, Pedro Martins da Silva, Jose Paulo Sousa, Osmar Klauberg-Filho, Dilmar Baretta
Summary: Ground-dwelling beetles play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning, but their composition and traits are influenced by habitat fragmentation and land use changes. This study examined the community composition and relationships with environmental variables of ground-dwelling beetles in subtropical fragments of southern Brazil. The results showed that the composition of beetle communities varied among different land use systems, and environmental variables had some influence on the morphospecies composition.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
F. Mestre, B. Silva
Summary: The lconnect R package is a user-friendly tool for assessing landscape connectivity and prioritizing habitat patches, which helps understand and address the challenges in biodiversity conservation.
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro, Martine Maron, Matthew G. E. Mitchell, Jonathan R. Rhodes
Summary: The study highlights the importance of landscape configuration in influencing functional diversity of urban birds, shedding light on the mechanisms of this relationship through different research methods.
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Dimitri Justeau-Allaire, Gregoire Blanchard, Thomas Ibanez, Xavier Lorca, Ghislain Vieilledent, Philippe Birnbaum
Summary: This article introduces a new neutral landscape generator called FLSgen, which addresses the limitation of current approaches in producing large landscapes with controlled composition and fragmentation indices. FLSgen provides a high level of control over 14 landscape indices and allows for the generation of fine-grained artificial landscapes in a short amount of time. It expands the possibilities and potential applications of neutral landscape models.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Annissa Muhammed, Eyasu Elias
Summary: The study reveals a deteriorating landscape ecological structure and increasing habitat fragmentation in the Bale mountains national park over time, particularly in terms of the decreasing areas of grassland and forestland.
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Denis Vasiliev, Sarah Greenwood
Summary: Despite conservation efforts, pollinator biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates. Conservation approaches often overlook landscape connectivity and focus on resource availability. The underestimated role of landscape connectivity may undermine conservation efforts by failing to consider the effects on pollinator assemblages.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Vinicius Klain, Marcia Bohrer Mentz, Sebastian Bustamante-Manrique, Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques
Summary: Environmental change can influence the ecology and behavior of host and parasite species, leading to changes in parasite communities. This study investigated the richness of parasite communities in brown howler monkeys inhabiting forest fragments in an anthropogenic landscape. The results showed weak negative relationships between parasite richness and forest cover as well as mean distance to the nearest forest fragment. The researchers concluded that the howler monkeys were likely infected with multiple parasite taxa on the ground, and the anthropogenic landscape structure had a minor role in modulating the richness of their parasite communities.
Article
Ecology
Ehsan Rahimi, Shahindokht Barghjelveh, Pinliang Dong
Summary: The study found that the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollination are completely different at the landscape and farm levels. Fragmentation negatively affects pollination at the landscape level, but landscapes with high fragmentation have the highest pollination rates at the farm level. Habitat loss decreases linearly at the landscape level and exponentially at the farm level.
ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
(2021)
Review
Ecology
Cristina Banks-Leite, Matthew G. Betts, Robert M. Ewers, C. David L. Orme, Alex L. Pigot
Summary: The main goal of landscape ecology is to understand the impact of habitat transformation on biodiversity. However, the discipline faces challenges due to the context dependency of observed spatial and temporal trends. This study discusses recent evidence suggesting that factors and processes at macroecological scales, such as historical disturbance rates, distance to geographic range edges, and climatic suitability, modulate populations' and species' responses to habitat change at the landscape scale.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Peilin Huang, Dulai Zheng, Yijing Yan, Weizhen Xu, Yujie Zhao, Ziluo Huang, Yinghong Ding, Yuxin Lin, Zhipeng Zhu, Ziru Chen, Weicong Fu
Summary: This study analyzes the response of bird communities in urban parks in Fuzhou, China, to landscape features during winter. The results indicate that the park's area, irregularity of shape, woodland proportion, and waterbody shape have a positive effect on bird diversity.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Raffaello Di Ponzio, Guthieri Teixeira Colombo, Thiago Bicudo, Maira Benchimol, Maria Joao Ramos Pereira, Carlos A. Peres, Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec
Summary: Mega dams cause habitat loss and fragmentation, negatively impacting aerial insectivorous bat assemblages. Compared to islands, larger continuous forests retain higher species richness and bat activity, leading to divergent species composition. Local vegetation, island size, and landscape edge area significantly affect species diversity, bat activity, and species composition, with small degraded islands and forest edge-dominated landscapes experiencing species loss.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Anna C. Nisi, John F. Benson, Christopher C. Wilmers
Summary: Animals' fear of people is a common phenomenon and can sometimes reduce the risk of being killed by humans, promoting coexistence in human-dominated environments. However, humans can be unpredictable predators, and the cues that animals perceive may not accurately indicate the risk of mortality. This can lead to ineffective fear responses by animals and even increase the risk of human-induced mortality.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tugrul Varol, Sevgi Gormus, Serhat Cengiz, Halil Baris Ozel, Mehmet Cetin
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
(2019)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Sevgi Gormus, Dicle Oguz, Hayriye Esbah Tuncay, Serhat Cengiz
Summary: By utilizing landscape character analysis, this study classified the Kapisuyu Basin of Kure Mountains National Park and identified a rich diversity of landscape characters in the area. Significant differences in landscape character ratios and patchiness were observed between the protected area and rural areas.
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES-TARIM BILIMLERI DERGISI
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Serhat Cengiz, Sevgi Gormus, Dicle Oguz
Summary: This study evaluates the change of urban growth pattern and the land use policies that caused this change in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. The results show that different land use decisions at different scales affect the urban growth trend, and spatial metrics can help determine the urban growth pattern and landscape change dynamics. The findings provide important insights for the development of urban land use strategies.
Article
Environmental Studies
Serhat Cengiz, Erdogan Atmis, Sevgi Gormus
Article
Environmental Studies
Sevgi Gormus, Serhat Cengiz, Sermin Tagil
LANDSCAPE RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Sevgi Gormus
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND FUTURE-EGITIM VE GELECEK DERGISI
(2019)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sevgi Gormus, Dicle Oguz, Hayriye Esbah
FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN
(2017)
Article
Environmental Sciences
B. Yilmaz, D. Dogan, O. Ates, S. Cengiz, S. Gormus
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ECOLOGY
(2016)
