The goal of the present study is to assess how landscape configuration influenced the
distribution of life‐history traits across bird, carabid beetle and butterfly communities of mosaic …

A major conservation challenge in mosaic landscapes is to understand how trait‐specific
responses to habitat edges affect bird communities, including potential cascading effects on …

… Inge van Halder … Inge van Halder … by Ulex europaeus and Erica spp.) and herbaceous
firebreaks (Barbaro & van Halder, 2009). Half of the study sites were located at edges between …

Climatic factors of butterfly distribution 20 Modelling procedure 21 Assumptions for species
dispersal 24 Visualisation of the multi-dimensional climatic niche 24 B. 4 Climate change risk …

Edge effects are increasing in forest-dominated landscapes worldwide, due to increased
fragmentation by other land uses. Understanding how species respond to edges is therefore …

Through litter decomposition enormous amounts of carbon is emitted to the atmosphere.
Numerous large-scale decomposition experiments have been conducted focusing on this …

Context Anthropogenic activities readily result in the fragmentation of habitats such that
species persistence increasingly depends on their ability to disperse. However, landscape …

This research aims at integrating ecological networks modelling in a participatory approach
in order to assess impacts of land-use planning scenarios on landscape connectivity. This …

1 The disruption of host‐finding cues has been proposed as a key mechanism underlying the
lower damage caused by phytophagous insects in mixed forests. We tested this hypothesis …

While the area of plantation forests continues to increase worldwide, their contribution to the
conservation of biodiversity is still controversial. There is a particular concern on the central …