Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis

By L. Fahrig. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A species-centered approach for uncovering generalities in organism responses to habitat loss and fragmentation (2014, neutral): “…warbler (HEWA). habitat because this predominantly forested system is characterized more by gradients than by discrete patch boundaries, and in this simpliﬁ ed example, we wanted to present what is broadly considered the most important metric – landscape-scale habitat amount (Fahrig 2003, 2013).”
Biodiversity Response To Habitat Loss And Fragmentation (2017, background): “, 2012), many consider that the concepts are useful and can help us understand the effects of humans on biodiversity and ecosystems and propose guidelines to more sustainable landscapes (Ewers and Didham, 2007; Hanski, 2011; Didham et al., 2012; Fahrig, 2013).”
Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge (2015, neutral): “The recently proposed habitat-amount hypothesis provides a synthesis of habitat size and isolation under the term “habitat amount”, which has to be experimentally determined for saproxylic organisms (Fahrig, 2013).”
Experimental evidence does not support the Habitat Amount Hypothesis (2017, critical): “This is an example of how the caveats and delimitations (Fahrig 2013) of the Habitat Amount Hypothesis are used to construct a hypothesis that does not present clear, independent predictions.”
Diversity patterns of wild bees and wasps in managed boreal forests: Effects of spatial structure, local habitat and surrounding landscape (2015, background): “This is consistent with the assumptions of the theory of island biogeography (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967), although these assumptions have been questioned in terrestrial patch networks (Fahrig 2013).”
Evolution of dispersal strategies and dispersal syndromes in fragmented landscapes (2017, background): “Individuals disperse in response to various local conditions (e.g. kin- and non-kin on both biodiversity (Fahrig 2013, Haddad et al. 2017) and dispersal evolution (Travis and Dytham 1999, North et al. 2011).”
Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College (background): “…these approaches, and the last half century has witnessed a considerable shift and progress in our studies;7 yet much remains to be done for the field of ancient art, specifically sculpture, to be ranked by most archaeologists at the same "objective" level of, say, Greek epigraphy and architecture.”
Testing the habitat amount hypothesis for South American small mammals (2017, background): “For this reason, Fahrig (2013) has argued that the species-area relationship in forest patches is probablymore related to the sample area effect than to the extinction-colonization dynamics of true island systems.”
Relationships among ecological traits of wild bee communities along gradients of habitat amount and fragmentation (2017, background): “For example, an increase in the total amount of semi-natural habitat can be associated with increased species richness due to a sample area effect (Fahrig 2013).”
Recovery of amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal diversity during secondary forest succession in the tropics (2019, methodology): “In addition, land use change often occurs at smaller spatial scales on islands, and this could reduce the distance to source populations, again supporting the importance of the amount of habitat in the surrounding landscape (Fahrig 2013).”
Impact of landscape composition and configuration on forest specialist and generalist bird species in the fragmented Lacandona rainforest, Mexico (2015, background): “…to accurately assess the impact of landscape structure on species’ responses (Cerezo et al., 2010; Smith et al., 2011; Thornton et al., 2011; Fahrig, 2013), as in our study, bird diversity was more strongly influenced by local-scale landscape patterns (i.e. by landscape metrics measured at…”
Effects of landscape structure on avian-mediated insect pest control services: a review (2017, background): “The amount of native habitat available to a given species (Fahrig 2013) is a central driver of many of the ecological mechanisms proposed to influence avianmediated pest control (Column 3, Fig.”
Indirect effects of habitat loss via habitat fragmentation: A cross-taxa analysis of forest-dependent species (2020, methodology): “Similarly, the HAH (Fahrig, 2013) has been both supported (Melo et al., 2017; Rabelo et al., 2017; Seibold et al., 2017; Vieira et al., 2018) and refuted (Haddad et al., 2017; Lindgren and Cousins, 2017; Torrenta and Villard, 2017).”
Independent effects of host and environment on the diversity of wood‐inhabiting fungi (2018, background): “…it is not possible to infer from observational studies a causal relationship between dead- wood amount and fungal diversity because under natural conditions, the amount and heterogeneity of dead wood are often correlated (Müller & Bütler, 2010; see also “habitat amount hypothesis” Fahrig, 2013).”
High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations (2017, background): “…expect that (3)mammal communities embedded in a sugarcanematrix should experience a process of nestedness (Baselga, 2010), due to habitat loss and fragmentation, that leads to deterministic species losses, thereby creating nested species subsets of the larger community (Fernández-Juricic, 2002).”
Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems (2015, background): “Ecologists agree that habitat destruction is detrimental to the maintenance of biodiversity, but they disagree — often strongly — on the extent to which fragmentation itself is to blame ( 4 , 5 ).”