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Terrestrial arthropods as indicators of the ecological effects of habitat fragmentation and of heavy metal contamination Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek
A framework to connect biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research to habitat fragmentation Universiteit Gent
Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies Universiteit Gent
Decades of research suggest that species richness depends on spatial characteristics of habitat patches, especially their size and isolation. In contrast, the habitat amount hypothesis predicts that (1) species richness in plots of fixed size (species density) is more strongly and positively related to the amount of habitat around the plot than to patch size or isolation; (2) habitat amount better predicts species density than patch size and ...
Habitat disturbance reduces seed dispersal of a forest interior tree in a fragmented African cloud forest Universiteit Gent
Habitat fragmentation and disturbance are known to impact animals and plants in different ways, depending on species' characteristics and the type and scale of habitat modification involved. In contrast, direct or indirect ramifications on mutualistic relationships between plants and animals are less clear, possibly because general patterns are confounded by the diffuse nature of many of these interactions. Here, we examine how fragment size ...
BIOFRAG: a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation Universiteit Gent
Dispersal syndrome and landscape fragmentation in the salt-marsh specialist spider Erigone longipalpis Universiteit Gent
Dispersal and its evolution play a key role for population persistence in fragmented landscapes where habitat loss and fragmentation increase the cost of between-habitat movements. In such contexts, it is important to know how variation in dispersal and other traits is structured, and whether responses to landscape fragmentation are aligned with underlying dispersal-trait correlations, or dispersal syndromes. We, therefore, studied trait ...
Forest fragmentation modulates effects of tree species richness and composition on ecosystem multifunctionality Universiteit Gent
Forest fragments in highly disturbed landscapes provide important ecosystem services ranging from acting as biodiversity reservoir to providing timber or regulating hydrology. Managing the tree species richness and composition of these fragments to optimize their functioning and the deliverance of multiple ecosystem services is of great practical relevance. However, both the strength and direction of tree species richness and tree species ...
The analysis of spatio-temporal forest changes (1775–2000) in Flanders (northern Belgium) indicates habitat-specific levels of fragmentation and area loss KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Introduction: Spatio-temporal forest changes can have a progressive negative impact on the habitat of species that need forest continuity, i.e. the continuous presence of forest. Long-term species data that demonstrate such an impact are often not available. Instead we applied a spatial analysis on maps of the historical and present-day forests, by calculating landscape indices that explain ...