Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation

RM Ewers, RK Didham - Biological reviews, 2006 - cambridge.org
Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

A systematic review reveals changes in where and how we have studied habitat loss and fragmentation over 20 years

D Fardila, LT Kelly, JL Moore, MA McCarthy - Biological Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
Habitat loss and fragmentation are global threats to biodiversity and major research topics in
ecology and conservation biology. We conducted a systematic review to assess where–the …

Refocusing habitat fragmentation research using lessons from the last decade

AS Hadley, MG Betts - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2016 - Springer
Habitat alteration is broadly thought to be a primary threat to global biodiversity and has
become the dominant topic for conservation biology. However, it is a complex process …

Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity?

RJ Fletcher Jr, RK Didham, C Banks-Leite… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Habitat loss is a primary threat to biodiversity across the planet, yet contentious debate has
ensued on the importance of habitat fragmentation 'per se'(ie, altered spatial configuration of …

A survey and overview of habitat fragmentation experiments

DM Debinski, RD Holt - Conservation biology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat destruction and fragmentation are the root causes of many conservation problems.
We conducted a literature survey and canvassed the ecological community to identify …

The geometry of habitat fragmentation: Effects of species distribution patterns on extinction risk due to habitat conversion

F May, B Rosenbaum, FM Schurr… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use changes, which cause loss, degradation, and fragmentation of natural habitats,
are important anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity change. However, there is an ongoing …

Ecological responses to habitat fragmentation per se

L Fahrig - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
For this article, I reviewed empirical studies finding significant ecological responses to
habitat fragmentation per se—in other words, significant responses to fragmentation …

Beyond the fragmentation debate: a conceptual model to predict when habitat configuration really matters

MA Villard, JP Metzger - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Research addressing the effects of habitat fragmentation on species, assemblages or
ecosystems has been fraught with difficulties, from its conceptual foundation to statistical …

A global analysis of traits predicting species sensitivity to habitat fragmentation

DA Keinath, DF Doak, KE Hodges… - Global Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Elucidating patterns in species responses to habitat fragmentation is an important focus
of ecology and conservation, but studies are often geographically restricted, taxonomically …

Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity

L Fahrig - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The literature on effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is huge. It is also
very diverse, with different authors measuring fragmentation in different ways and, as a …