Multi-scaled habitat considerations for conserving urban biodiversity: native reptiles and small mammals in Brisbane, Australia

摘要: The rapid expansion of the world’s urban population is a major driver contemporary landscape change and ecosystem modification. Urbanisation destroys, degrades fragments native ecosystems, replacing them with heterogeneous matrix development, parks, roads, isolated remnant varying size quality. This presents challenge for biodiversity conservation within areas. To make spatially explicit decisions about actions, planners managers need to be able separate relative influence composition configuration from patch local (site)-scale variables range fauna species. We address this problem using hierarchical approach native, terrestrial reptiles small mammals living in fragmented semi-urban Brisbane, Australia. Generalised linear modelling partitioning analysis were applied quantify configuration, shape, habitat structure on species’ richness mammal reptile assemblages. Landscape (composition configuration) local-scale found most important influencing assemblages, although importance specific differed between These findings highlight considering addition elements when planning and/or managing diversity landscapes.