Coastal succulent scrub of Baja California is being fragmented and replaced by agriculture, residential, recreational, commercial, and industrial land uses. This study evaluated fragmentation effects ...

Aim: Habitat fragmentation and loss are two of the most important factors driving current biodiversity decline. Nonetheless, the relationship between biodiversity and landscape patterns appears more ...

Landscape ecology is the study of the pattern and interaction between ecosystems within a region of interest, and the way the interactions affect ecological processes, especially the unique effects of ...

Because of the deforestation of tropical rainforests in Brazil, significantly more carbon has been lost than was previously assumed. The effect of the degradation has been underestimated in fragmented ...

A new study has found that the sensitivity and recovery of UK butterfly populations to extreme drought is affected by the overall area and degree of fragmentation of key habitat types in the landscape ...

Since it is only after several decades that the extent of effects of fragmentation can be evaluated, a temporal analysis is key. Anthropogenic change of the environment, such as linear fragmentation, ...