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Identifying factors driving sensitivity to fragmentation in forest breeding songbirds

Creator:

Valente, Jonathon J.

Abstract:

Habitat loss and fragmentation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Fragmentation impacts landscape configuration, resulting in a larger number of patches that are smaller in size and further apart from one another. Island biogeography and metapopulation theory predict populations in these remnant patches should be smaller, have higher extinction...

Resource Type:

Dissertation