Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation

By Robert M. Ewers, Raphael K. Didham. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Twenty years of understorey bird extinctions from Amazonian rain forest fragments: consistent trends and landscape‐mediated dynamics (2009, background): “For fragments, matrix dynamics also play a pivotal role in determining community structure (Ewers & Didham, 2006).”
How functional is functional? Ecological groupings in terrestrial animal ecology: towards an animal functional type approach (2011, background): “However, too much simplification might be counterproductive where more than simply resource use could fundamentally structure an animal’s life like for example a particular landscape/habitat context (Ewers and Didham 2006).”
Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests (2014, background): “Furthermore, the impacts of size and edge often co-occur and can act synergistically, confounding assessments of the relative importance of these factors in driving biological change (Ewers & Didham 2006; Fletcher et al. 2007).”
Responses of Tropical Bats to Habitat Fragmentation, Logging, and Deforestation (2015, background): “Recent reviews concur that edge effects critically affect biodiversity in habitat fragments (Ewers and Didham 2006a; Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007; Laurance et al. 2011).”
Relative effects of fragment size and connectivity on bird community in the Atlantic Rain Forest: Implications for conservation (2008, background): “…and Simberloff, 1997; Franken and Hik, 2004) and rescue effects (Brown and Kodrick-Brown, 1977), key processes determining population maintenance in fragmented landscapes (Fahrig and Merriam, 1985; Hanski and Simberloff, 1997; Fahrig, 2003; Ewers and Didham, 2006; Fischer and Lindenmayer, 2007).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “…fragments represents the lack of habitat in the surrounding landscape and has an influence on the movement and dispersal of species among fragments Ewers and Didham (2006), Fahrig (2003) Shape Convoluted fragment shapes can lead to increased turnover and variability in population size when…”
Beyond occurrence: Body condition and stress hormone as integrative indicators of habitat availability and fragmentation in the common toad (2011, background): “Secondly, these measures constitute time-lagged responses that may obscure the actual population status (Ewers and Didham, 2006; Piha et al., 2007).”
Guild-specific responses of bats to landscape composition and configuration in fragmented Amazonian rainforest (2009, background): “Indeed, habitat fragmentation is a pervasive feature of modern landscapes and is currently the most serious threat to species persistence in tropical forests ( Ewers & Didham 2006 ).”
Expanding northward: influence of climate change, forest connectivity, and population processes on a threatened species' range shift (2011, background): “For a review of confounding factors in studies of habitat fragmentation, see Ewers & Didham (2006).”
Targeting and evaluating biodiversity conservation action within fragmented landscapes: an approach based on generic focal species and least-cost networks (2010, background): “Habitat fragmentation principally involves a reduction in habitat area and an increase in patch isolation (Ewers and Didham 2006).”
Amphibian sensitivity to habitat modification is associated with population trends and species traits (2017, background): “For example, the strength of fragmentation effects [i.e., area, isolation and edge effects] may depend on the degree to which species in patches can tolerate and use matrix habitat (Ewers & Didham, 2006).”
Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica (2010, background): “Moreover, patterns detected are often contingent upon which landscape matrix types are examined (Bender et al. 1998, Debinski and Holt 2000, Ewers and Didham 2006), a factor that is not often explicitly addressed.”
Specialist species of wood‐inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests (2013, background): “As the results of non-manipulative studies can be affected by a number of confounding factors, such as correlations among habitat area, isolation and quality, these data pose challenges for the analysis phase (Ewers & Didham 2006).”
Landscape effects of forest loss in a pollination system (2007, background): “…Apiformes Apoidea Carolinian forest Forested ecosystem Fragmentation Habitat loss Spring ephemeral Introduction Habitat loss is a current major threat to biodiversity, and the losses occurring within landscape scales could result in habitat fragmentation (Fahrig 2003; Ewers and Didham 2006).”