Philip C. Stouffer

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesized key findings from the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, the world's largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, and found that fragmentation is highly eclectic, altering species richness and abundances, species invasions, forest dynamics, the trophic structure of communities, and a variety of ecological and ecosystem processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize findings to date from the world's largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia, and synthesize the results to date.

TL;DR: Over time, communities in 10-ha fragments surrounded by Cecropia became more like pre-isolation communities, although communities in other fragments generally continued to diverge, and Ordination of the insectivore community showed that 1-ha fragment diverged from their pre- isolation communities more than did 10- ha fragments.

TL;DR: This work asks how fast do understory bird species disappear from experimentally isolated plots in the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, central Amazon, Brazil, and derives a scaling rule for the time it takes to lose half the species in a fragment as a function of its area.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the frequency of local movements of understory birds within intact forest and across a 30- to 40-m wide road over a 2-year period, and found that road-crossing movements were inhibited because individuals tended to avoid both edge affected habitat near the road and the road clearing itself.