Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis

By J. Fischer, David B. Lindenmayer. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Statistical approaches in landscape genetics: an evaluation of methods for linking landscape and genetic data (2009, background): “Thus, in-between measures describe connectivity as an attribute of the landscape, while local indices describe it as an attribute of an individual patch or population (Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007).”
Biodiversity Response To Habitat Loss And Fragmentation (2017, background): “In contrast to stochastic processes, deterministic processes are those that predictably lead to a decline or increase in population size (Gilpin and Soulé, 1986; Fischer and Lindenmayer, 2007).”
Restoration of plant species and genetic diversity depends on landscape‐scale dispersal (2018, background): “…a landscape-scale measure of connectedness between the existing habitat patches and is necessary for the vital processes of populations and ecosystems—movement of individuals, dispersal of seeds, and the exchange of genetic material between individual habitat patches (Fischer & Lindenmayer 2007).”
A spatial scale assessment of habitat effects on arthropod communities of an oceanic island (2009, background): “Such modification of natural habitats generally increases the landscape heterogeneity, resulting in a mosaic of patches in which both natural, semi-natural and exotic habitat types are more or less interconnected (Malanson and Cramer, 1999; Ricketts, 2001; Fischer and Lindenmayer, 2007).”
A species-centered approach for uncovering generalities in organism responses to habitat loss and fragmentation (2014, positive): “Th e ‘ continua-Umwelt ’ (Manning et al. 2004) and the continuum models (Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007) advanced beyond IBT in that they: 1) embrace, rather than ignore, spatial gradients in habitat suitability and landscape resistance to movement; and 2) recognize that each species may respond to…”
Meta‐analysis reveals the importance of matrix composition for animals in fragmented habitat (2011, methodology): “Structural connectivity is an important phenomenon that influences species distributions and evolutionary processes (Mazerolle & Villard, 1999; Tischendorf & Fahrig, 2001; Fischer & Lindenmayer, 2007; Fitzgibbon et al., 2007), but there is little consensus over how it should be measured.”
Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats: disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects (2016, background): “In human-modified landscapes, habitat loss and fragmentation typically co-occur with habitat degradation (Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007).”
A comparison of 3 types of green roof as habitats for arthropods (2013, background): “With more than half of the human population residing in cities, which is project to rise to 70% in 2030 (UNFPA, 2011), urban areas detrimentally invade natural landscapes (Fischer and Lindenmayer, 2007), thereby impacting the entire planet (Grimm et al., 2008).”
Spatial statistics, spatial regression, and graph theory in ecology (2012, background): “For example, landscape fragmentation and the development of road networks can erode species’ habitat quality and reduce individual survival rates (Fahrig, 2003; Fischer and Lindenmayer, 2007).”
Time-lag in biological responses to landscape changes in a highly dynamic Atlantic forest region (2009, neutral): “Fragment size and connectivity are among the key landscape factors that affect species survival in fragmented landscapes (Metzger, 2000; Ewers and Didham, 2006; Pardini et al., 2005; Uezu et al., 2005; Fischer and Lindenmayer, 2007; Martensen et al., 2008).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “Structural complexity provides a crude proxy of biodiversity value across land-use intensification gradients Species do not perceive human-modified landscapes as black and white mosaics of habitat and non-habitat (Fischer & Lindenmayer 2007).”
Impact of landscape composition and configuration on forest specialist and generalist bird species in the fragmented Lacandona rainforest, Mexico (2015, background): “This can be related to the fact that the remaining forest cover is relatively high in the region (>40% of forest cover), which means that the remaining forest patches tend to be large, presenting a high landscape connectivity, thus facilitating inter-patch animal movements (see Ewers and Didham, 200”
Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges (2010, background): “…Population Environnement Développement, UMR 151 UP/IRD, Université de Provence, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille Cedex 03, France causes of biodiversity loss and therefore a major issue of conservation biology (Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007; Lindenmayer et al. 2008; Heller and Zavaleta 2009).”
Independent effects of habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and structural connectivity on forest‐dependent birds (2010, background): “…paradigm’ (sensu Haila, 2002) identifies two key processes: habitat loss, that is the removal of a certain quantity of habitat (Fischer & Lindenmayer, 2007), and habitat fragmentation per se, that is the subdivision of a formerly continuous habitat patch (Fischer & Lindenmayer, 2007).”
The challenge of maintaining Atlantic forest biodiversity: A multi-taxa conservation assessment of specialist and generalist species in an agro-forestry mosaic in southern Bahia (2009, background): “Today a significant part of the terrestrial biodiversity is found in fragmented landscapes, and since the landmark publication of island biogeography theory (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967), a growing body of research has allowed ecologists to start disentangling the main effects of habitat loss and fra”