The role of fragment area and isolation in the conservation of heathland species

By K. Piessens, Olivier Honnay, Martin Hermy. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape (2011, background): “Within large species data sets, responsiveness to fragmentation ranged between rare responses (e.g. Dupré and Ehrlén 2002; Krauss et al. 2004) to connectivity being the main predictor (Bastin and Thomas 1999; Piessens et al. 2005).”
Can a seed bank maintain the genetic variation in the above ground plant population (2008, background): “Similarly, Piessens et al. (2004, 2005) showed that species with long-lived seeds were over-represented in spatially isolated heathland fragments in Belgium, suggesting a ‘temporal rescue effect’, with lower fragmentation-driven extinction rates for species with long-lived seeds than for species…”
Which plant traits predict species loss in calcareous grasslands with extinction debt? (2012, background): “In addition, wind-dispersed species are more susceptible to habitat loss and fragmentation (Williams et al., 2005; Tremlová & Münzbergová, 2007; Fréville et al., 2007; but see Piessens et al., 2005).”
Does the heathland flora in north-western Belgium show an extinction debt? (2006, methodology): “Stieperaere and Timmerman, 1983; Pywell et al., 1997; Bossuyt and Hermy, 2003; Piessens et al., 2005 ), which are characteristics expected to delay the plants’ responses to habitat loss.”
Factors and processes affecting plant biodiversity in permanent grasslands. A review (2011, unknown): “Species richness of species with shortterm persistent seed banks is more positively affected by connectivity than species richness of species with longterm persistent seed banks (Piessens et al. 2005; Piessens et al. 2004).”
Slow response of plant species richness to habitat loss and fragmentation. (2005, background): “Many researchers have concluded that habitat fragmentation poses an important additional threat to biodiversity (Hanski 2005; Piessens et al. 2005; Strantford & Robinson 2005), but others think that fragmentation per se is generally of secondary importance (Fahrig 2003).”