Immigration rates in fragmented landscapes--empirical evidence for the importance of habitat amount for species persistence.

BACKGROUND: The total amount of native vegetation is an important property of fragmented landscapes and is known to exert a strong influence on population and metapopulation dynamics. As the relationship between habitat loss and local patch and gap characteristics is strongly non-linear, theoretical...

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Main Authors: Thomas Püttker, Adriana A Bueno, Camila Dos Santos de Barros, Simone Sommer, Renata Pardini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3220714?pdf=render