The document discusses the topics of habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation that were covered in week 6. It provides an overview of key papers on these topics, including how habitat fragmentation can impact biodiversity conservation and the importance of connectivity between habitats. Several papers are cited that examine landscape fragmentation in various regions around the world and the impact of infrastructure like roads and railways on disconnecting river landscapes.

1. Biodiversity Conservation – week 6
London Metropolitan Univ. - 2010
Marco Pautasso (marpauta at gmail.com)

2. Biodiversity Conservation
main topics – week 6
Habitat fragmentation and
biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity conservation
and connectivity

3. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between disciplines
Kiss et al. (2010) Journal of Informetrics

4. Some graph theory terms
Minor and Urban (2008) Conservation Biology

5. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Conservation
Normandie, France (August 2003)

6. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Conservation

7. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Champagne, France (August 2003)
Conservation

8. The value of open habitat corridors (Lueneburger Heide)
Eggers et al. (2010) Conservation Biology

9. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Conservation UK (August 2003)
Essex,

10. Laurance et al. (2009) Trends in Ecology & Evolution

11. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Conservation UK (August 2003)
Bedfordshire,

12. Landscape
fragmentation
in China
Li et al. (2010)
Landscape Ecology

13. Landscape fragmentation in California (USA)
Girvetz et al. (2008) Landscape and Urban Planning

14. Landscape
fragmentation
in Wisconsin
(USA)
Hawbaker et al. (2006) Ecological Applications

15. Landscape
fragmentation
in Wisconsin
(USA)
Glista et al. (2009) Landscape and Urban Planning

16. Disconnection of river landscapes due to railways and roads
Blanton & Marcus (2009) Geomorphology

17. Disconnection of river landscapes due to railways and roads (2)
Blanton & Marcus (2009) Geomorphology

18. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Conservation (December 2009)
Greece

19. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Conservation (December 2009)
Athens

20. County mean distance to road in the USA
Watts et al. (2007) Science

21. Biodiversity conservation at the interface between realms
Beger et al. (2010) Biological Conservation UK (August 2003)
Buckinghamshire,

22. County per person roadless volume in the USA
Watts et al. (2007) Science

23. Roadless areas in New England (USA)
Jantz et al. (2008) Natural Areas Journal

24. Quebec (July 2006)

25. Groundlevel ozone pollution in Lithuania
Girgzdiene et al. (2009) Ambio

26. Biodiversity sensitivity to ground-level ozone pollution
Girgzdiene et al. (2009) Ambio

27. Birch endophytes in islands in Finland
Helander et al. (2007) New Phytologist

28. Birch endophytes in islands in Finland
Helander et al. (2007) New Phytologist

29. Habitat connectivity and biodiversity conservation
Hodgson et al. (2009) Journal of Applied Ecology

30. Habitat fragmentation and road avoidance (Illinois, USA)
Shepard et al. (2008) Animal Conservation

31. Kent, UK (April 2006)

32. Protected area connectivity and biodiversity conservation
Leibenath et al. (2010) Landscape and Urban Planning

33. Landscape connectivity for agricultural crops
Margosian et al. (2009) BioScience
Kent, UK (April 2006)

34. Examples of invasions of plant pathogens
From Brown & Hovmøller (2002) Science

35. Human impacts on biodiversity
Habitat fragmentation, degradation and loss
Water, air and soil pollution
Species introductions
Climate change
Trade, travel, transportation and tourism

36. References
Harwood TD, Xu XM, Pautasso M, Jeger MJ & Shaw M (2009) Epidemiological risk assessment using linked network and grid based modelling: Phytophthora
ramorum and P. kernoviae in the UK. Ecological Modelling 220: 3353-3361
Holdenrieder O, Pautasso M, Weisberg PJ & Lonsdale D (2004) Tree diseases and landscape processes: the challenge of landscape pathology. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution 19, 8: 446-452
Jeger MJ & Pautasso M (2008) Comparative epidemiology of zoosporic plant pathogens. European Journal of Plant Pathology 122: 111-126
MacLeod A, Pautasso M, Jeger MJ & Haines-Young R (2010) Evolution of the international regulation of plant pests and challenges for future plant health. Food
Security 2: 49-70
Moslonka-Lefebvre M, Pautasso M & Jeger MJ (2009) Disease spread in small-size directed networks: epidemic threshold, correlation between links to and
from nodes, and clustering. Journal of Theoretical Biology 260: 402-411
Pautasso M (2009) Geographical genetics and the conservation of forest trees. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Systematics & Evolution 11: 157-189
Pautasso M & Chiarucci A (2008) A test of the scale-dependence of the species abundance-people correlation for veteran trees in Italy. Annals of Botany 101:
709-715
Pautasso M & Dinetti M (2009) Avian species richness, human population and protected areas across Italy’s regions. Environmental Conservation 36: 22-31
Pautasso M & Fontaneto D (2008) A test of the species-people correlation for stream macro-invertebrates in European countries. Ecological Applications 18:
1842-1849
Pautasso M & Jeger MJ (2008) Epidemic threshold and network structure: the interplay of probability of transmission and of persistence in directed networks.
Ecological Complexity 5: 1-8
Pautasso M & Powell G (2009) Aphid biodiversity is correlated with human population in European countries. Oecologia 160: 839-846
Pautasso M & Weisberg PJ (2008) Density-area relationships: the importance of the zeros. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 203-210
Pautasso M & Zotti M (2009) Macrofungal taxa and human population in Italy's regions. Biodiversity & Conservation 18: 473-485
Pautasso M et al (2010) Plant health and global change – some implications for landscape management. Biological Reviews 85: 729-755
Pautasso M et al (2011) Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems. Global Ecology & Biogeography 20: 426-436
Pecher C, Fritz S, Marini L, Fontaneto D & Pautasso M (2010) Scale-dependence of the correlation between human population and the species richness of
stream macroinvertebrates. Basic Applied Ecology 11: 272-280
Schlick-Steiner B, Steiner F & Pautasso M (2008) Ants and people: a test of two mechanisms behind the large-scale human-biodiversity correlation for
Formicidae in Europe. Journal of Biogeography 35: 2195-2206
Steck CE & Pautasso M (2008) Human population, grasshopper and plant species richness in European countries. Acta Oecologica 34: 303-310
Xu XM, Harwood TD, Pautasso M & Jeger MJ (2009) Spatio-temporal analysis of an invasive plant pathogen (Phytophthora ramorum) in England and Wales.
Ecography 32: 504-516