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Connecting models, data, and concepts to understand fragmentation's ecosystem‐wide effects

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Research on habitat fragmentation over the last 50 years has led to a rich understanding of patterns and processes observed in fragmented landscapes across all levels of ecological systems. Habitat fragmentation has continued apace and new global datasets on the extent and rate of fragmentation have motivated a new generation of experiments, theory, and landscape studies (Haddad et al. 2015). This led us to convene a selected group of theoreticians, experimentalists, observational ecologists, and experts in remote sensing at the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station in Moulis, France. This Special Issue has emerged from insights at that meeting. Articles in this Special Issue synthesize theory, coalesce key predictions from an evolutionary to an ecosystem perspective, and test theory with unprecedented long‐term datasets collected in fragmentation experiments.

Source: Ecography

DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02974

Authors: Nick M. Haddad, Robert D. Holt, Robert J. Jr Fletcher, Michel Loreau, Jean Clobert

Institutions: North Carolina State University, University of Florida, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Station d’Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale

Language: English

Topic: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Laboratoire d'Excellence TULIP, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Analyses et Expérimentations pour les Ecosystèmes