The deforestation of the tropical rainforests is progressing unstoppably. According to scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), these forests are becoming fragmented at a ...
Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in 21st-century global land cover change, with far-reaching implications for ecosystem ...
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New metrics indicate habitat fragmentation has increased in over half the world's forests over the last 20 years
Deforestation is a well-known issue affecting biodiversity and carbon storage, but the fragmentation of forests is also a driving factor in the reduction of the world's biodiversity and carbon-storing ...
Sept. 8 (UPI) --The surface area of forest edges are increasing as tropical forests become increasingly fragmented. According to a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, ...
The pervasive influence of island biogeography theory on forest fragmentation research has often led to a misleading conceptualization of landscapes as areas of ...
Species richness of habitat fragments is affected by spatial isolation. However, the scale of this phenomenon, and its interactions with the species' seed dispersal potential has remained underxplored ...
Tropical rain forests are becoming fragmented at a higher rate than expected. By analyzing high-resolution satellite data, researchers were able to measure even the smallest piece of tropical forest ...
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