Effect of habitat area and isolation on fragmented animal populations

By Laura R. Prugh, K. Hodges, A. Sinclair, J. Brashares. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A global analysis of traits predicting species sensitivity to habitat fragmentation (2017, methodology): “We drew roughly half the studies from those compiled by Prugh et al. (2008), to which we added studies from a Web of ScienceTM search for titles containing the keywords ‘patch, fragment or remnant’ AND 116 Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26, 115–127, VC 2016 The Authors.”
The relative importance of patch habitat quality and landscape attributes on a declining steppe-bird metapopulation (2010, background): “Indeed, the combination of patch size and connectivity has often adequately described patterns of animal occurrence for many taxa in fragmented landscapes (Prugh et al., 2008).”
Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape (2011, background): “ity may be small single species were strongly affected (Dirnböck and Dullinger 2004; Hérault and Honnay 2005; Prugh et al. 2008).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “The matrix surrounding fragments also influences their structure and dynamics (Brotons et al., 2003; Cook et al., 2002; Prevedello and Vieira, 2011; Prugh et al., 2008).”
Landscape and patch attributes impacting medium- and large-sized terrestrial mammals in a fragmented rain forest (2013, background): “…studies have evaluated changes in mammal assemblages in fragmented tropical landscapes, most assess the effects of patch metrics (Chiarello 1999, Prugh et al. 2008), without assessing (nor controlling) the effect of the landscape spatial pattern (but see McShea et al. 2009, Thornton et al.…”
Biodiversity Response To Habitat Loss And Fragmentation (2017, background): “As a consequence, results from empirical studies frequently do not fit the predictions from simple ecological models and vary widely across studies (Watling and Donnelly, 2006; Prugh et al., 2008).”
Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes (2010, background): “Notably, this threshold links landscape-context and patch-area effects, drawing on both theoretical evidence for structural thresholds in landscape pattern [18–20] and the known importance of patch size and isolation as determinants of local extinction risk [26–28].”
Emptying the Forest: Hunting and the Extirpation of Wildlife from Tropical Nature Reserves (2011, background): “Finally, greater efforts must be applied to improving the management of wildlife in secondary forests and other matrix habitats in the landscape outside protected areas (Chazdon 2008, Koh and Wilcove 2008, Prugh et al. 2008).”
Predicting local extinctions of Amazonian vertebrates in forest islands created by a mega dam (2015, background): “However, other features of the patch and surrounding landscape – including the nature of neighbouring habitats (Andrén, 1994; Prugh et al., 2008), patch habitat quality (Michalski and Peres, 2005; Holland and Bennett, 2009; Wang et al.”
Network analysis in conservation biogeography: challenges and opportunities (2010, background): “(Debinski & Holt, 2000; Prugh et al., 2008).”
Targeting and evaluating biodiversity conservation action within fragmented landscapes: an approach based on generic focal species and least-cost networks (2010, background): “…semi-natural and extensive habitats are considered to be more conducive or permeable to species movement, whereas intensive agricultural and urban land uses are predicted to reduce connectivity and increase ecological isolation (Ricketts 2001; Donald and Evans 2006; Prugh et al. 2008).”
Anthropogenic and natural disturbance lead to differing patterns of gene flow in the Rocky Mountain tailed frog, Ascaphus montanus. (2010, neutral): “A recent meta-analysis of a wide variety of animal groups in fragmented landscapes demonstrated that patch size and isolation, the two key factors explaining population dynamics in island models, explained relatively little variation in patch occupancy (Prugh et al., 2008).”