Connecting models, data, and concepts to understand fragmentation’s ecosystem-wide effects

Research on habitat fragmentation over the last 50 years has led to a rich understanding of patterns and processes observed in fragmented landscapes across all levels of ecological systems. Habitat fragmentation has continued apace and new global datasets on the extent and rate of fragmentation have...

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Published in:Ecography (Copenhagen) 2017-01, Vol.40 (1), p.1-8
Main Authors: Haddad, Nick M., Holt, Robert D., Fletcher, Robert J., Loreau, Michel, Clobert, Jean
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biodiversity and Ecology
Editorial
Environmental Sciences
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Summary:Research on habitat fragmentation over the last 50 years has led to a rich understanding of patterns and processes observed in fragmented landscapes across all levels of ecological systems. Habitat fragmentation has continued apace and new global datasets on the extent and rate of fragmentation have motivated a new generation of experiments, theory, and landscape studies (Haddad et al. 2015). This led us to convene a selected group of theoreticians, experimentalists, observational ecologists, and experts in remote sensing at the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station in Moulis, France. This Special Issue has emerged from insights at that meeting. Articles in this Special Issue synthesize theory, coalesce key predictions from an evolutionary to an ecosystem perspective, and test theory with unprecedented long‐term datasets collected in fragmentation experiments.
ISSN:0906-7590
1600-0587
DOI:10.1111/ecog.02974