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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2003-12-01
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Series: | Ecology and Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol7/iss2/art7/ |