Distribution and Causes of Global Forest Fragmentation

Because human land uses tend to expand over time, forests that share a high proportion of their borders with anthropogenic uses are at higher risk of further degradation than forests that share a high proportion of their borders with non-forest, natural land cover (e.g., wetland). Using 1-km advance...

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Main Authors: Timothy G. Wade, Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, K. Bruce Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2003-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol7/iss2/art7/