Landscape or habitat fragmentation is the breaking up of a habitat or vegetation type into smaller, disconnected sections. It is generally a consequence of land use: agricultural activities, road ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), set out to quantify habitat fragmentation and extinction risk for more than 4,000 land-dwelling mammal species.

One of the main threats facing wildlife in the modern world is the breaking up of their habitats. Now, for the first time ever, researchers have been able to create a detailed picture of exactly how ...

How do habitat loss and fragmentation affect species and ecosystems? Spatial ecology investigates the immense variety of spatial patterns in nature and their ecological consequences. If you take a ...

Habitat fragmentation describes the division of once-contiguous ecosystems into smaller, isolated patches, disrupting ecological processes at genetic, species and community levels. Fragmentation ...

A University of Florida professor visited the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Feb. 5, to discuss the impact of habitat fragmentation and drought on tropical plants. Emilio Bruna spoke to the ...

The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located near Manaus, Brazil, began in 1979 and is the world's longest-running experimental study of tropical forest fragments. A new ...

The first paved highway across the Brazilian Amazon began, in the nineteen-seventies, as a narrow, hard-won cut through dense rainforest. The road, which connects the northern port city of Belém with ...

I was driving to work yesterday, and a squirrel darted in front of my car. He nearly lost his life. He does it several times a day. Every day. One of these days he won’t make it to the other side. Why ...

are sea ice-dependent carnivores that are greatly affected by sea ice habitat fragmentation. While anthropocentric activities have caused habitat fragmentation in terrestrial environments, climate ...