Beyond the fragmentation threshold hypothesis: regime shifts in biodiversity across fragmented landscapes.

Ecological systems are vulnerable to irreversible change when key system properties are pushed over thresholds, resulting in the loss of resilience and the precipitation of a regime shift. Perhaps the most important of such properties in human-modified landscapes is the total amount of remnant nativ...

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Main Authors: Renata Pardini, Adriana de Arruda Bueno, Toby A Gardner, Paulo Inácio Prado, Jean Paul Metzger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2965145?pdf=render