Recent research finds that Amazonian trees in fragmented forest landscapes remain especially vulnerable to windstorms for several years after being impacted by fire — and that, in particular, larger ...

Animal species that have evolved, and survived, in low-disturbance environments - with little interruption from glaciation, fires, hurricanes, or anthropogenic clearing - are more sensitive to modern ...

Aim: The hypothesis that habitat fragmentation negatively influences biodiversity stems from island biogeography and metapopulation theory which predict negative impacts of decreasing patch size on ...

ABSTRACT The direct correspondence between landscape fragmentation and its effects is still the subject of debate. Many widely accepted hypotheses are not supported by experiments. The issue of ...

Introduction : habitat fragmentation and western birds / T. Luke George and David S. Dobkin -- Multi-scale perspective of the effects of forest fragmentation on birds in eastern forests / Frank R.

After decades of rising global economic integration, the world economy is now fragmenting. To measure this phenomenon, we introduce an index of geopolitical fragmentation derived from various ...