Understanding the characteristics of habitat quality and its influence under land use change is crucial for rapid urbanization, regional ecological protection, national restoration optimization layout. This paper examined Anhui Province, China, through topo-graphic data, climate human activity data from 2000, 2010, 2020. To reveal impact mechanisms, assessed province’s spatiotemporal evolution ...

a fish species prefer a particular habitat where provides its biological requirements, hence, understanding their habitat use and preferences are crucial for their effective management and protection. this study was conducted to assess the habitat use and selection patterns of alburnoides namaki , an endemic fish in jajroud river, namak lake basin, iran. the river was sampled at 18 equally spac...

This letter introduced a new R package ‘coexist’ which can perform species coexistence simulation and analysis. The package was initially developed for understanding the role of different combinations of varying species growth rates, dispersal ability, habitat heterogeneity, and competition interaction on influencing species coexistence under fluctuating environment. Further versions could intr...

Geographic characters--traits describing the spatial distribution of a species-may both affect and be affected by processes associated with lineage birth and death. This is potentially confounding to comparative analyses of species distributions because current models do not allow reciprocal interactions between the evolution of ranges and the growth of phylogenetic trees. Here, we introduce a ...

Northern Spotted Owls, Strix occidentalis caurina, require large tracts of old-growth conifer forest to survive and reproduce. Much of this forest has been or is being cut by commercial logging operations, with uncertain consequences for the owls. In this paper I present simulation models of owl population change over the next 100 years, as summing a variety of scenarios for habitat destruction...

For land-use planning, numerically fast and easily applicable tools are urgently needed that allow us to assess how landscape structure and dynamics affect biodiversity. To date, such tools exist only for static landscapes. We provide an analytical formula for the mean lifetime of species in fragmented and dynamic habitat networks where habitat patches may be destroyed and created elsewhere. Th...