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Matrix habitat and species richness in tropical forest remnants
Claude Gascon,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Richard O. Bierregaard,Jay R. Malcolm,Phillip C Stouffer,Heraldo L. Vasconcelos,William F. Laurance,Barbara Zimmerman,Mandy Tocher,Sérgio Henrique Borges +9 more
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Positive and significant correlations between matrix abundance and vulnerability to fragmentation are exhibited, suggesting that species that avoid the matrix tend to decline or disappear in fragments, while those that tolerate or exploit the matrix often remain stable or increase.About:
This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 1999-12-01. It has received 772 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Species richness & Abundance (ecology).read more
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Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on individual species and the processes threatening them, and human-perceived landscape patterns and their correlation with species and assemblages, as well as additional, stochastic threats such as habitat loss, habitat degradation, habitat isolation and habitat isolation.
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Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation
TL;DR: This work reviews the extensive literature on species responses to habitat fragmentation, and detail the numerous ways in which confounding factors have either masked the detection, or prevented the manifestation, of predicted fragmentation effects.
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Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation
William F. Laurance,William F. Laurance,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Heraldo L. Vasconcelos,Emilio M. Bruna,Raphael K. Didham,Raphael K. Didham,Philip C. Stouffer,Philip C. Stouffer,Claude Gascon,Claude Gascon,Richard O. Bierregaard,Richard O. Bierregaard,Susan G. Laurance,Susan G. Laurance,Erica M. Sampaio,Erica M. Sampaio +16 more
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.
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Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses
Teja Tscharntke,Jason M. Tylianakis,Tatyana A. Rand,Raphael K. Didham,Raphael K. Didham,Raphael K. Didham,Lenore Fahrig,Péter Batáry,Péter Batáry,Janne Bengtsson,Yann Clough,Thomas O. Crist,Carsten F. Dormann,Robert M. Ewers,Jochen Fründ,Robert D. Holt,Andrea Holzschuh,Alexandra M. Klein,David Kleijn,Claire Kremen,Doug A. Landis,William F. Laurance,David B. Lindenmayer,Christoph Scherber,Navjot S. Sodhi,Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,Carsten Thies,Wim H. van der Putten,Catrin Westphal +28 more
TL;DR: This review uses knowledge gained from human‐modified landscapes to suggest eight hypotheses, which it hopes will encourage more systematic research on the role of landscape composition and configuration in determining the structure of ecological communities, ecosystem functioning and services.
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The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the surrounding matrix can significantly influence the “effective isolation” of habitat patches, rendering them more or less isolated than simple distance or classic models would indicate.
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