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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Banks-Leite, Cristina
• Betts, Matthew G.
• Ewers, Robert M.
• Orme, C. David L.
• Pigot, Alex L.

Titel

The macroecology of landscape ecology

Ist Teil von

• Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam), 2022-06, Vol.37 (6), p.480-487

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• One of landscape ecology’s main goals is to unveil how biodiversity is impacted by habitat transformation. However, the discipline suffers from significant context dependency in observed spatial and temporal trends, hindering progress towards understanding the mechanisms driving species declines and preventing the development of accurate estimates of future biodiversity change. Here, we discuss recent evidence that populations’ and species’ responses to habitat change at the landscape scale are modulated by factors and processes occurring at macroecological scales, such as historical disturbance rates, distance to geographic range edges, and climatic suitability. We suggest that placing landscape ecology studies in a macroecological lens will help to explain seemingly inconsistent results and will ultimately create better predictive models to help mitigate the biodiversity crisis. Context dependency in species responses to habitat change can be explained by processes occurring at macroecological scales, such as distance to geographic range edges, climatic suitability, and evolutionary history of disturbance events.Further exploration of how multiple stressors at different scales interact will lead to a better understanding of the strength and direction of anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity.In the same way that edge effects impact biodiversity in patches with more convoluted shapes, range-edge effects may also drive higher sensitivity to habitat change in species with more complex range shape.Using a cross-scale approach will lead to more accurate predictions of biodiversity change with habitat transformation and more effective conservation strategies.