Theory meets reality: How habitat fragmentation research has transcended island biogeographic theory

By W. Laurance. 2008

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Thresholds and the species–area relationship: a synthetic analysis of habitat island datasets (2014, background): “However, debate continues as to the efficacy and applicability of island theory in the context of habitat islands (e.g. Laurance, 2008).”
Richness and composition of plants and birds on land‐bridge islands: effects of island attributes and differential responses of species groups (2012, background): “…from changes in topographic complexity, elevational range, fragment orientation, fragment shape and amount of edge habitat (Murcia, 1995; Morrison, 2002; Hill & Curran, 2003; Ries et al., 2004; Ewers & Didham, 2005; Watson et al., 2005; Radford & Bennett, 2007; Laurance, 2008; Hortal et al., 2009).”
Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica (2010, background): “Rarely will alterations to the surrounding landscape proceed without associated changes to the internal habitat (Laurance et al. 2002, Laurance 2008).”
Long-term effects of fragmentation and fragment properties on bird species richness in Hawaiian forests (2010, background): “However, IBGT has proven to be overly simplistic for understanding fragmentation effects on biota (Ewers and Didham, 2006; Laurance, 2008).”
Linking plant phenology to conservation biology (2016, background): “One of the main outcomes of land-use change is habitat loss, which is arguably the main driver of declines in plant and animal diversity (Laurance, 2008).”
Does the type of matrix matter? A quantitative review of the evidence (2010, background): “This reflects the traditional focus on patch-level processes when studying habitat fragmentation (Ricketts 2001; Kupfer et al. 2006; Laurance 2008), which limits our understanding of matrix use and tolerance (Umetsu and Pardini 2006).”
Occupancy dynamics in a tropical bird community: unexpectedly high forest use by birds classified as non‐forest species (2010, background): “…related to habitat patches (i.e . patch size, isolation) to a landscape-level approach (i.e . connectivity, % habitat cover), establishing a broad base of knowledge on how landscape characteristics can drive the dynamics of species’ distributions at diﬀerent scales (Haila 2002; Laurance 2008).”
What is an edge species? The implications of sensitivity to habitat edges (2010, unknown): “…have been studied for decades because they are increasingly common in most landscapes (Sisk et al. 1997), critical to our understanding of how habitat mosaics infl uence species’ distributions (Ewers and Didham 2006, Laurance 2008) and important for conservation planning (Lindenmayer et al. 2008).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “…cycle most species experience their surroundings at spatial scales beyond the plot level, and biological fluxes (e.g. dispersal and foraging) within and between areas of forest and the managed matrix are common (Kupfer et al. 2006; Laurance 2008; Perfecto & Vandermeer 2008; Tscharntke et al. 2008).”
Biodiversity Response To Habitat Loss And Fragmentation (2017, background): “Initially, research was greatly influenced by the Island Biogeography Theory (IBT; MacArthur and Wilson, 1967), through the analogy between patches of native vegetation within converted land and islands within the ocean (Haila, 2002; Laurance, 2008; Didham et al., 2012).”
Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses (2012, background): “However, the concept of habitat fragmentation has also been heavily criticised as having ambiguous value (Haila, 2002; Fahrig, 2003; Lindenmayer & Fischer, 2006, 2007; Yaacobi, Ziv & Rosenzweig, 2007; Laurance, 2008; Prugh et al., 2008; Collinge, 2009; Bennett & Saunders, 2010, but see Ewers & Didha”
Small mammal responses to environmental change: integrating past and present dynamics (2014, background): “Even for protected areas in terrestrial ecosystems, human activity on adjacent lands can have far reaching impacts (Newmark 1987; Laurance 2008).”