Leslie Ries

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify four fundamental mechanisms that cause edge responses: ecological flows, access to spatially separated resources, resource mapping, and species interactions, and present a conceptual framework that identifies the pathways through which these four mechanisms can influence distributions, ultimately leading to new ecological communities near habitat edges.

TL;DR: The authors argue that Fahrig's conclusions are drawn from a narrow and potentially biased subset of available evidence, which ignore much of the observational, experimental and theoretical evidence for negative effects of altered habitat configuration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual model, based on resource distribution, that predicts whether organismal abundances near edges are expected to increase, decrease, or remain unchanged for any species at any edge type.

TL;DR: The behaviour of two butterfly species, a habitat specialist (Speyeria idalia) and a habitat generalist (Danaus plexippus), was tracked at four prairie edges to determine the extent to which edges act as a barrier to emigration as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effect of roadside vegetation management on butterfly populations along central Iowa roadsides and found that restoration of roadsides to native habitat can benefit wildlife by adding habitat and restoring connectivity between fragmented reserves.