Research Triangle Park, NC--The size, shape, and arrangement of fields, forests, wetlands, and human populations, and the ways these and other features interact and change across landscapes, have a ...

The ridge and slough landscape is highly significant ecologically. The landscape is severely degrading in a number of locations, i.e., it is being replaced with a landscape that is more uniform in ...

Aim: Recent changes in land use have led to substantial loss and fragmentation of semi-natural grasslands. We assessed the relative effect of current and historical landscape composition, and ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 49, No. 3 (September 2015), pp. 377-387 (11 pages) Many snake species make lengthy linear migrations between overwintering sites and summer foraging or mating habitats.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

A part from enhancing aesthetics, patterns in the landscape can meet functional needs as well. They can be used for directing movement or defining special use areas within the garden. But the power of ...