An island of wildlife in a human-dominated landscape: The last fragment of primary forest on the Osa Peninsula's Golfo Dulce coastline, Costa Rica.

An island of wildlife in a human-dominated landscape: The last fragment of primary forest on the Osa Peninsula's Golfo Dulce coastline, Costa Rica.

Habitat loss and fragmentation, together with related edge effects, are the primary cause of global biodiversity decline. Despite a large amount of research quantifying and demonstrating the degree of these effects, particularly in top predators and their prey, most fragmented patches are lost befor...

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Main Authors: Beatriz Lopez Gutierrez, Angélica M Almeyda Zambrano, Sandra L Almeyda Zambrano, Carlos A Quispe Gil, Stephanie Bohlman, Eduardo Avellan Arias, Guillermo Mulder, Clare Ols, Rodolfo Dirzo, Anneke M DeLuycker, Karen Lewis, Eben N Broadbent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214390

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214390

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