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Habitat Loss, Fragmentation, and Restoration

Restoration Ecology, 1999
AbstractThe loss and fragmentation of habitat is a major threat to the continued survival of many species. We argue that, by including spatial processes in restoration management plans, the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation can be offset. Yet few management plans take into account spatial effects of habitat conservation/restoration despite the ...
Gary R. Huxel, Alan Hastings
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Habitat fragmentation matters more than habitat loss: The case of host–parasite interactions

Molecular Ecology, 2022
AbstractWhile ecologists agree that habitat loss has a substantial negative effect on biodiversity it is still very much a matter of debate whether habitat fragmentation has a lesser effect and whether this effect is positive or negative for biodiversity. Here, we assess the relative influence of tropical forest loss and fragmentation on the prevalence
Perrin, Antoine, Khimoun, Aurélie, Ollivier, Anthony, Richard, Yves, Pérez-Rodríguez, Antón, Faivre, Bruno, Garnier, Stéphane   +6 more
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Deforestation and habitat loss

1992
The Earth’s vegetation patterns are highly dynamic, and within the past million years they have changed considerably in response to changing climates (especially the recurrent Quaternary glaciations, which were associated with relatively cool and dry conditions in the tropical zones).
Mostafa K. Tolba, Osama A. El-Kholy
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HABITAT LOSS

Habitat loss refers to the disappearance of natural environments that house specific plant and animal species. Habitat loss encompass three main types: habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation. Habitat destruction involves extensive devastation of natural environments, habitat degradation results from the depletion of vital resources like ...
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Habitat Loss Confounds Climate Change Impacts

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2004
Biological reserves are set aside to conserve species in dynamic, human-dominated landscapes; however, most reserve systems protect only small, potentially biased samples of environmental conditions across the range of individual species or habitat types.
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Habitat Loss, Fragmentation, and Degradation

2019
This chapter describes habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation. Habitat loss poses the greatest threat to the variety of life on this planet today. It refers to complete elimination of habitats, along with their biological communities and ecological functions. Habitat loss usually results from the conversion of natural or semi-natural habitat into
Bradley J. Cardinale, Richard B. Primack, James D. Murdoch   +2 more
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A Massive Loss of Habitat

Sociology of Development, 2016
The paper examines three emergent migration flows, each with specific features that can be described as extreme. The effort organizing the paper is to understand conditions at places of origin that lead people to risk their lives in dangerous trips to escape those places of origin.
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Site‐Selection Algorithms and Habitat Loss

Conservation Biology, 2003
Abstract: Site‐selection algorithms are used in reserve design to select networks of sites that maximize biodiversity, given some constraints. These algorithms are based on a snapshot of species occurrence, and they typically aim to minimize the area or cost needed to represent all the species once or a few ...
Mar Cabeza, Atte Moilanen
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Habitat loss and fragmentation

Abstract The first response of many animals to altered environmental conditions is via behavioural adjustments. Habitat loss and fragmentation represent major alterations to natural environments and are key contributors to the global biodiversity crisis. This chapter illustrates how animal behaviour can be modified in response to habitat
Michael Sievers, Stephen E. Swearer, Robin Hale   +2 more
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Habitat Loss, Agrobiodiversity, and Incidental Wildlife Loss

2017
Producing food can carry a steep ecological price. Over the past century, the need to grow enough food to support an expanding global population has resulted in vast swaths of forests and wetlands being converted into farmland or pastures. This development is a result of the industrialization of the food production systems around the world, the ...
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